Yale sees record number of fellowship applications
Apr. 6, 2025 - The Office of Fellowships received record numbers of students applying for all fellowships this year, as the University navigates potential funding uncertainty.
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Brown University to see $510 million in federal funding frozen by Trump administration
Apr. 3, 2025 - The Trump administration plans to announce a freeze on $510 million worth of federal funding, a White House official told The Herald.
UW–Madison participating in legal challenges to prevent wrongful funding cuts, grant terminations and delays
Apr. 4, 2025 - An update on UW–Madison's participation in legal challenges to prevent wrongful funding cuts, grant terminations and delays.
Tech Entrepreneur TJ Thinakaran Prioritizes Principles & People
Apr. 1, 2025 - There are many ways to describe TJ Thinakaran.
UUtah Hackathon - One-U Responsible AI Initiative
Apr. 7, 2025 - This hackathon invites participants to create AI-powered solutions for air quality across the Wasatch Front addressing pressing challenges in predicting poor air quality.
UvA Data Science Centre: Highlights 2024
Apr. 4, 2025 - The UvA Data Science Centre looks back on the achievements of 2024.
UC San Diego Professor Explores Academia’s Role in AI’s Evolution at Major National Conference
Apr. 3, 2025 - At the inaugural HumanX conference in Las Vegas, David Danks, a UC San Diego professor of Data Science, Philosophy, and Policy and national expert in AI ethics, shared insights on the evolving international landscape of AI and the industry's unique dynamics.
Notre Dame Data Science Students Dive into AI & Ethics at January Immersion
Apr. 2, 2025 - The University of Notre Dame's Online Master's in Data Science program recently held its January Immersion at AT&T's global headquarters in Dallas.
WATCH: Princeton AI Lab Distinguished Lecture Series Continues with Exploration of How Humans Communicate with Machines
Apr. 3, 2025 - As AI becomes increasingly complex, new language is needed to help improve communication between humans and machines, Google DeepMind senior staff research scientist Been Kim told a standing-room-only crowd in Robertson Hall’s Arthur Lewis Auditorium.
BU CDS Assistant Professor Kira Goldner Receives NSF CAREER Award
Apr. 3, 2025 - Kira Goldner’s research on Multidimensional Utility Maximization when Ordeals are Payments rethinks existing systems by developing rigorous, data-driven methods to handle incentives and allocate resources efficiently.
NJIT Computing Student Earns Spot in One of the World's Most Competitive
Mar. 31, 2025 - Haley Patel, an undergraduate computer science student in the Ying Wu College of Computing, recently represented NJIT at Stanford University's TreeHacks 2025.
Texas A&M | Dr. Sabit Ekin Joins TAMIDS as Research Coordination Fellow
Apr. 1, 2025 - TAMIDS is excited to share that Dr. Sabit Ekin has joined our team as a Research Coordination Fellow. Dr. Ekin is an Associate Professor in the Texas A&M Department of Engineering Technology and Industrial Distribution.
UMichigan-Ann Arbor | MIDAS Faculty Affiliates Named as 2024 AAAS Fellows
Apr. 2, 2025 - MIDAS congratulates Mark S. Daskin, Margaret C. Levenstein, Sally Oey, Arvind Rao, and Stephen Smith who have earned election to the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2024.
UC Berkeley | Steering AI for the good of humanity
Apr. 2, 2025 - As an undergraduate mathematics student 14 years ago, Jacob Steinhardt began to consider a future where artificial intelligence would automate most cognitive work, which he thought could have an even bigger impact than the Industrial Revolution.
UVA SDS Professors Baek and Gates Win $900K Award from NNSA to Advance Physics-Informed Machine Learning
Apr. 2, 2025 - Under the grant award, the team will use data science theories and methods to contribute to the safe storage, monitoring, and handling of energetic materials.
How AI Is Transforming Climate Change Prediction And Mitigation
Apr. 1, 2025 - During a recent event hosted by the University of Virginia, a panel of experts discussed how AI is transforming climate change prediction, risk modeling, and mitigation - while balancing energy use, equity, and transparency in deployment.
Brown Computational Biology Undergrad Awarded Prestigious Goldwater Scholarship
Apr. 2, 2025 - Skylar Walters, an undergraduate concentrator at CCMB, has a bright future ahead of her in computational biology research.
Wayne State University Receives $50M for New Engineering College
Apr. 4, 2025 - A record-breaking alumni donation will be used to drive research in mobility, energy storage, AI and other growing fields by supporting doctoral fellowships, undergraduate student experiences and recruitment efforts.
Northeastern University Launches 'Claude' AI for Critical Thinking
Apr. 4, 2025 - A private research university in Massachusetts is deploying Claude for Education, a chatbot designed by Anthropic to walk students through a reasoning process to help them build critical thinking skills.
UC San Diego preps budget for up to a $500M hit from federal cuts
Apr. 4, 2025 - Citing “unprecedented conditions,” the university’s chancellor said it was freezing hiring and delaying capital projects.
Researchers sue NIH over mass cuts to DEI grants
Apr. 3, 2025 - Plaintiffs argue that agency leaders “upended NIH’s enviable track record of rigor and excellence, launching a reckless and illegal purge.”
Visas revoked for 12 UC Davis students and graduates, university says
Apr. 5, 2025 - Chancellor Gary S. May says the federal government provided no explanation for the terminated visas.
Data-Driven, Interactive Map Shows Local Economic Impact of Cuts to Federal Funding for Health Research
Apr. 3, 2025 - Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Maryland show that proposed NIH funding cuts lead to an estimated $16 billion in economic loss and 68,000 jobs lost nationwide.
UNC Chapel Hill business school announces hiring freeze, cites political disruptions
Apr. 3, 2025 - The temporary hiring freeze was announced in a Thursday email to Kenan-Flagler employees.
Exclusive: American University's business school launches new "applied AI" institute
Apr. 3, 2025 - The goal is to weave AI into every aspect of business education.
Harvard Faculty Address Trump’s Assault on Higher Education
Apr. 3, 2025 - Arts and Sciences engages with the Trump administration’s assault on higher education.
Vana is letting users own a piece of the AI models trained on their data
Apr. 3, 2025 - The firm created a user-owned network that allows individuals to upload their data and govern how they are used to train AI models.
Harvard FAS Is Developing a Contingency Plan for Drastic Federal Funding Cuts
Apr. 3, 2025 - Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Hopi E. Hoekstra said that the FAS is developing a contingency plan for the looming possibility that the Trump administration hits Harvard with steep federal funding cuts.
Princeton punts on releasing total operating budget after funding cuts, says it will support financial aid
Apr. 3, 2025 - The Board of Trustees approved significant increases in undergraduate financial aid and graduate student support for the 2025–26 academic year.
UPenn Wharton announces new major, concentration in artificial intelligence
Apr. 3, 2025 - The new AI program will be jointly administered by the Statistics and Data Science Department and the Operations, Information and Decisions Department with support from the Wharton AI & Analytics Initiative.