NYU Shanghai receives record number of applicants for class of 2029
Mar. 12, 2025 - NYU Shanghai received a record-breaking high of nearly 24,000 applications for its class of 2029.
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NYU appoints Title VI coordinator as Trump cracks down on Columbia
Mar. 11, 2025 - NYU President Linda Mills announced the overdue appointment of the university’s Title VI coordinator amid the Trump administration’s recent crackdown on Columbia University.
UMass medical school implements hiring and spending freeze, considers layoffs
Mar. 12, 2025 - Leaders at UMass Chan Medical School are freezing hiring and spending, citing ongoing uncertainty surrounding federal funding.
Update: Federal judge imposes preliminary injunction on NIH spending cuts - The Tufts Daily
Mar. 11, 2025 - U.S. District Judge Angel Kelley imposed a preliminary injunction on the National Institutes of Health, preventing the cuts on indirect medical research costs from taking effect nationwide.
UCLA | UC Artificial Intelligence Council launches website for AI-related news, resources
Mar. 11, 2025 - UC Artificial Intelligence Council launched a systemwide platform to share AI-related news, guidelines and projects.
How AI can achieve human-level intelligence: researchers call for change in tack
Mar. 4, 2025 - A survey finds that most respondents are sceptical that the technology underpinning large-language models is sufficient for artificial general intelligence.
U-M launches effort to advance AI research, collaboration
Mar. 12, 2025 - A new hub for artificial intelligence research and collaboration will soon launch at the University of Michigan, aiming to strengthen the university’s role in AI and improve coordination among its researchers and external partners.
NIH cancels $250 million in grants to Columbia as part of $400 million Trump administration cut
Mar. 11, 2025 - The National Institutes of Health announced that the agency is cancelling $250 million in grants to Columbia as part of the Trump administration’s $400 million cut to University funding.
Education Department announces massive layoffs, slashing nearly half its workforce
Mar. 11, 2025 - The agency’s employee count will plummet from 4,133 when President Donald Trump was inaugurated to about 2,183.
Entrepreneur Gifts USF $40M for New College of AI, Cybersecurity at the University of South Florida
Mar. 11, 2025 - The University of South Florida will put its largest-ever donation to use funding scholarships, hiring faculty and developing a new space for the Bellini College of Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity and Computing.
University of Hawaii to Offer Free AI Training With Google
Mar. 11, 2025 - The university system's students and staff have free access to “AI Essentials,” a five-hour course in the Google Career Certificate program that teaches people to use AI responsibly and effectively.
Pentagon abruptly ends all funding for social science research
Mar. 10, 2025 - More than 90 studies on threats such as climate change, extremism, and disinformation are halted
Scott Delaney: Google Sheet to track NIH grant cancellations
Mar. 7, 2025 - NIH is cancelling grants, but it's not clear exactly what they're cancelling and why. Without this information, we can't respond.
NSF Implementation of Recent Executive Orders
Mar. 7, 2025 - Information for the NSF community regarding executive orders.
Sinclair Community College encourages bachelor's degree completion with new Arizona State University partnership
Mar. 1, 2025 - Sinclair Community College has partnered with Arizona State University to allow students to transfer an associate's degree to another bachelor's degree program.
How the NIH dominates the world’s health research — in charts
Mar. 10, 2025 - Abrupt cuts by the Trump administration to the US National Institutes of Health threaten progress in medical research globally.
NASA begins mass firings of scientists ahead of Trump team’s deadline
Mar. 11, 2025 - Top advisers in the Office of the Chief Scientist are among the first to go amid downsizing effort.
Andy Konwinski to speak at CDSS undergraduate commencement ceremonies on May 22
Mar. 11, 2025 - Andy Konwinski, co-founder of Databricks, Perplexity, and Laude Ventures, will speak at UC Berkeley’s College of Computing, Data Science, and Society undergraduate commencement ceremonies on May 22.
Johns Hopkins Plans Staff Layoffs After $800 Million Grant Cuts
Mar. 11, 2025 - Local and international health research efforts are already winding down as the university braces for even more potential cuts.
UWashington | Working together to address the financial risks facing our University
Mar. 9, 2025 - Given the challenges we now face at the federal and state levels, we expect that some level of budget cuts will become necessary, and the time has now come to expand our financial sustainability efforts.
Clemson University limits expenditures through FY25
Jan. 30, 2025 - Clemson University is limiting its expenditures to those deemed “mission critical” in response to the construction of new facilities required by its increasing enrollment rate.
Introducing openRxiv: a new independent home for preprint sharing in the life sciences - openRxiv
Mar. 11, 2025 - openRxiv as an independent nonprofit to oversee bioRxiv and medRxiv, the world’s leading preprint servers for life and health sciences.
Pitt institutes hiring freeze at least through June in response to funding uncertainties
Mar. 10, 2025 - The freeze will remain in place through the end of the current fiscal year (June 30) and may be extended into the next fiscal year.
UNC ranked top public institution in Fulbright scholars, facilitating global exchange
Mar. 9, 2025 - UNC was recently ranked the No. 1 public university for the Fulbright US Students Program, producing 27 Fulbright scholars in the 2024-25 application cycle — more than any other public institution.
Faculty Searches in Limbo As Freeze Interrupts Hiring Processes Across Harvard
Mar. 11, 2025 - Harvard’s imposition of a hiring freeze interrupted faculty hiring processes across the University, leaving professors scrambling to figure out how to fill vacancies — and how to keep their departments’ work running if they can’t.
Olinto mandates in-person classes and exams amid ICE presence around campus
Mar. 11, 2025 - University Provost Angela Olinto wrote that all classes and exams must continue in person as scheduled in a Monday morning email to Columbia faculty obtained by Spectator, urging “generosity and mutual patience as we navigate this together.”
‘SEND HELP!’: 59% of students face insecurities around needs like food and housing
Mar. 11, 2025 - Among students who stopped-out or are in danger of doing so, 79% cited basic needs insecurities and financial challenges, the Hope Center found.
Education Department warns 60 colleges it could take action over antisemitism concerns
Mar. 10, 2025 - The letters escalate the Trump administration’s scrutiny of how colleges are handling student protests over the Israel-Hamas war.
‘America can’t be great without great science. That is where the Academies can help.’
Mar. 10, 2025 - Recent actions by the federal government affecting agencies that fund science in the United States have sent shock waves through the research community.
Robotic helper making mistakes? Just nudge it in the right direction
Mar. 7, 2025 - MIT researchers developed a framework that lets a user correct a robot’s behavior during deployment using simple interactions, such as by pointing to an item, tracing a trajectory, or nudging the robot’s arm.