AAUP, AFT sue to block Education Department dismantling
Mar. 24, 2025 - The plaintiffs allege that the executive branch has exceeded its constitutional authority and violated law after the president’s order to wind the agency down.
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The Chaos of NIH Cuts Has Left Early-Career Scientists Scrambling
Mar. 24, 2025 - As graduate programs lose spots and labs face shutdowns following Trump administration cuts to science funding, the path to a science career for students and researchers just got a whole lot harder.
Vanderbilt’s Jesse Spencer-Smith appointed to Tennessee AI Advisory Council
Mar. 24, 2025 - Gov. Bill Lee has appointed Vanderbilt University’s Jesse Spencer-Smith to the Tennessee Artificial Intelligence Advisory Council.
Dismissal of economic advisory boards raises alarms over data quality
Mar. 21, 2025 - The removal of advisers supporting closely watched monthly releases may mean trouble for agencies that provide vital information on jobs and inflation.
As the Trump administration purges web pages, this group is rushing to save them
Mar. 23. 2025 - The Trump administration's erasure of federal data has put the Internet Archive in the spotlight. The organization, with its small but mighty team, is working to help save the world's digital history.
Survey Says Women Are Finding New Paths to Cybersecurity
Mar. 21, 2025 - Women are increasingly exploring nontraditional channels to enter into the cybersecurity workforce, according to a survey and recent analysis from a cybersecurity professionals member association.
Trump revoking protections for 530,000 Cubans, Haitians and other migrants
Mar. 22, 2025 - Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans who entered the US under a Biden-era program face deportation.
University of Maryland begins partial hiring freeze
Mar. 21, 2025 - Hiring efforts to fill existing, funded positions will now require additional reviews by senior staff, including the university’s vice president for finance and chief financial officer.
Pitt Talent Center website closed for now; hiring freeze exceptions being developed
Mar. 21, 2025 - The Pitt Talent Center job site is currently offline as the Office of Human Resources and the Office of the Provost work to finalize the exceptions process to the hiring freeze announced on March 10 for staff and faculty.
University of Washington to Relaunch Fintech Incubator
Mar. 20, 2025 - The financial advisory firm Curinos tapped the University of Washington and its innovation hub to support early-stage financial tech companies working in predictive decision-making, AI automation and customer experience.
Generative AI Infrastructure Call 2025 - Data Science Centre
Mar. 21, 2025 - To help ensure that this infrastructure is fit for purpose and serves researchers needs, Research IT together with the UvA Data Science Centre (DSC) are once again looking for users to provide feedback.
Debra Richardson Defies Gender Stereotypes and Diversifies Computing
Mar. 19, 2025 - As a math major at UC San Diego in the 1970s, Debra Richardson was often one of only two women in her advanced math classes. “Many of my instructors.
Princeton Precision Health: An interdisciplinary, AI-driven approach to tackling big questions about health and disease
Mar. 18, 2025 - PPH researchers apply cutting-edge AI and computational models to massive datasets to develop a deep understanding of the factors that shape health and illness.
UC Berkeley | Mapping the return of Indigenous lands using data science
Mar. 19, 2025 - McKalee Steen traces her career in data science to her family's efforts toward environmental justice.
UVA | Ken Ono Honored as Cozzarelli Award Finalist for Groundbreaking Work on Prime Numbers
Mar. 19, 2025 - The professor of data science's research reveals a surprising connection between integer partitions and prime numbers, earning him national recognition.
Pitt Professors, students warn vague conduct hearing rules could open door for abuses of power
Mar. 21, 2025 - Professors and student organization leaders have raised concerns about the Student Code of Conduct, saying it gives the University outsized power to silence political speech and punish campus dissent.
Penn | Annenberg School will not renew part-time lecturers’ contracts, citing financial uncertainty
Mar. 21, 2025 - Dean of the Annenberg School for Communication Sarah Banet-Weiser notified the lecturers of the decision in an email sent on March 19.
Northwestern | Medill denies tenure, intends to terminate Prof Steven Thrasher next year
Mar. 20, 2025 - Northwestern denied tenure to Medill Prof. Steven Thrasher and plans not to renew his position in August 2026.
Princeton | Affinity and cultural groups comment on ODUS policy refresher amid Trump’s DEI attacks
Mar. 20, 2025 - Student groups react to the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Studies’s request to update promotional materials to explicitly say that the groups are open to all Princeton students.
Trump DEI rollbacks push NYU Langone to ditch terms like ‘marginalized’ or ‘diverse’
Mar. 21, 2025 - NYU Langone Health is facing pressure from in-house lawyers to omit phrases like “diverse students” and “systemic racism” from its website.
MIT | AI tool generates high-quality images faster than state-of-the-art approaches
Mar. 21, 2025 - A hybrid AI approach known as hybrid autoregressive transformer can generate realistic images with the same or better quality than state-of-the-art diffusion models, but that runs about nine times faster and uses fewer computational resources.
Syracuse USen addresses Department of Education funding cuts
Mar. 20, 2025 - Chancellor Syverud assured SU’s Senate of financial stability while addressing federal changes to the DOEd race-based programs.
US Department of Education investigates Ohio State for alleged racial discrimination due to DEI-related partnership
Mar. 20, 2025 - Ohio State is under investigation by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights due to alleged racial discrimination in its graduate programs.
Emory announces new Open Expression Policy
Mar. 20, 2025 - In the new policy, Emory pledged to use a content-neutral approach, to address open expression issues and policy violations.
UToronto renews five-year research partnership with Konica Minolta
Mar. 20, 2025 - The University of Toronto and Konica Minolta, Inc. are renewing a research partnership focused on AI and internet-connected devices.
Britain beefs up travel warnings over US border enforcement
Mar. 20, 2025 - Britain has in recent weeks revised its advice for citizens traveling to the US to include a warning that anyone found breaking its entry rules could face arrest or detention.
Students report confusion in co-op hiring processes amid federal funding cuts, hiring freezes
Mar. 19, 2025 - Students report that co-op offers have been rescinded from Harvard and Cornell.
Trump signs order closing Education Department to ‘maximum extent appropriate’
Mar. 20, 2025 - The directive comes on the heels of U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon's decision to gut half the agency as its "final mission.”
Ohio House passes DEI-banning Senate Bill 1; bill returns to Ohio Senate for concurrence
Mar. 20, 2025 - OSB1 aims to ban DEI initiatives and prevent faculty from striking, as well as limit the teaching of controversial subjects within Ohio's public higher education institutions.
ASU Students argue against changes to LGBTQ+ resources
Mar. 19, 2025 - Students are challenging the University's claim that the relocation of pages for LGBTQ+ community resources is solely to "condense and reorganize" ASU websites.