Students use AI to aid United Nations in Ukrainian refugee response | RIT
Mar. 5, 2025 - Two RIT students are creating an AI tool for the United Nations International Organization for Migration that will improve humanitarian response.
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UTSA | SDS Announces its Nonprofit Partners for its Growing Community Innovation Scholars Program.
Mar. 2, 2025 - The Data Science & AI Community Innovation Scholars program places UTSA undergraduates in 10-week paid internships to apply data science and AI solutions to challenges faced by local nonprofits.
BU | CDS Welcomes Acevedo-Garcia and Chang as Faculty Fellows
Mar. 6, 2025 - Boston University’s Dolores Acevedo-Garcia and Michael Alan Chang have been named Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences (CDS) Faculty Fellows.
Fruit Fly Research Led NJIT Scientists and Edison Teens to Better AI
Mar 3, 2025 - A competition to compare the brains of male vs. female fruit flies led NJIT researchers and two high school students to a second-place finish in the latest edition of the FlyWire Data Challenge.
UToronto DSI | Drawing on AI and Other Data Sciences to Design Next-Gen Joint Replacements
Mar. 6, 2025 - Supported by a DSI catalyst seed grant, researchers employed data science methodologies with AI tools to analyze massive datasets on joint replacement patients to help design complex microstructure materials.
University Hiring Pause | Human Resources | The University of Vermont
Mar. 4, 2025 - The university will pause general hiring for all long-term faculty, staff and postdoctoral positions for 60 days.
Updates on federal government directives impacting Emory
Mar. 5, 2025 - "With potential changes in university funding looming, Emory must take prudent measures to prepare for what may be a significant disruption to our finances."
Trump preparing to sign order to dismantle Education Department | CNN Politics
Mar. 6, 2025 - The president could sign the order as early as Thursday. He would need support from Congress to get it done.
University of Michigan braces for funding cuts as feds terminate Social Security project
Mar. 3, 2025 - The Social Security Administration said that it would be ending its cooperative agreements supporting the Retirement and Disability Research Consortium.
UNebraska-Lincoln | Message from the Chancellor - Budget Reductions
Mar. 4, 2025 - The Executive Leadership Team to prepare for additional budget reductions to clear our structural deficit, resulting from rising costs and a decline in net tuition, as well as to prepare for the potential of reduced funding from the state for the next biennium.
Johns Hopkins University | Our bond at a moment of challenge
Mar. 4, 2025 - "As we have been in the past, we are resolute in our commitment to facing the challenges before us together as one university."
Exclusive: NIH to terminate hundreds of active research grants
Mar. 6, 2025 - Studies that touch on LGBT+ health, gender identity and DEI in the biomedical workforce could be terminated, according to documents obtained by Nature.
Bridging North and South - University Affairs
Feb. 27, 2025 - Yukon university serves First Nations communities while demystifying the North as the latest member of Universities Canada.
Shaping the future of AI: A Q&A with Rada Mihalcea
Mar. 5, 2025 - The AI Lab has grown in both scope and impact—venturing into cognitive architectures, natural language processing, healthcare computing and more.
UMD Carillon Communities program to cut enrollment by more than 65% this fall
Mar. 2, 2025 - The University of Maryland’s Carillon Communities living-learning program will reduce its student enrollment by more than 65 percent beginning this fall.
'Tears my heart apart': UNC summer research programs canceled amid federal cuts
Mar. 4, 2025 - Multiple summer research opportunities at UNC in the life sciences and social sciences have been put on hiatus or canceled.
Harvard | Hoekstra Tells FAS To ‘Prepare for Significant Financial Challenges’ Amid Uncertainty From Washington
Mar. 4, 2025 - Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Hopi E. Hoekstra told faculty on Tuesday that she has instructed FAS officials “to prepare for significant financial challenges” and “build financial capacity.”
Penn Engineering develops “quantum qudits” technology to secure communication between devices
Mar. 5, 2025 - Penn Engineering researchers have developed new technology that secures communications between separate devices while limiting the potential for interference.
Trump threatens to withhold federal funding from universities that allow ‘illegal’ protests
Mar. 5, 2025 - In the March 4 post, Trump threatened non-citizen student protesters.
Princeton has not asked departments to reduce graduate admissions as other colleges enact cuts
Mar. 5, 2025 - For many graduate students and professors, it is business as usual when it comes to admissions.
(Undergraduate) Transfer enrollment ticked up 4.4% in the fall, report finds
Mar. 5, 2025 - Previously stopped-out students starting at new institutions made up a majority of transfers, the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center found.
Trump administration launches review of Columbia University’s grants and contracts
Mar. 4, 2025 - The Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism is probing the institution’s funding over allegations it hasn’t protected Jewish students from harassment.
U-M, OpenAI launch partnership to expand AI research
Mar. 4, 2024 - The University of Michigan has established a partnership with OpenAI that will bring additional artificial intelligence resources, research funding and computing power to campus.
A case study of what’s ahead with Trump DEI crackdowns: Utah has already cut public college DEI initiatives
Feb. 28, 2025 - Utah’s strict laws blocking diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives have been playing out to mixed reviews on its flagship campus.
More Universities Slow Spending, Admissions Over Federal Funding Chaos
Mar. 3, 2025 - The list of major universities that are trimming their budgets, freezing new hiring, or limiting Ph.D. admissions is growing due to doubts about federal research funding.
NSF says it’s reinstating fired probationary employees
Mar. 3, 2025 - The National Science Foundation is reinstating probationary employees following a court ruling on the firings.
U-M takes proactive measures related to federal funding
Feb. 26, 2025 - The University of Michigan is instituting new requirements to reduce spending as a “buffer against negative, long-term impacts on operations” stemming from federal funding cuts.
New Ed Department Guidance Against Race-Conscious Policies Could Impact Scholarships, Ceremonies at Harvard | News | The Harvard Crimson
Mar. 3, 2025 - The Department of Education's guidance puts affinity commencement celebrations and minority scholarships in jeopardy
Vanderbilt | Early decision acceptance rate drops to 13.2% for Class of 2029
Mar. 3, 2025 - The combined acceptance rate for EDI and EDII was 13.2% — a decrease of 2% from the previous year.
The Daily Explains: How Northwestern has responded to Trump’s anti-DEI orders
Mar. 3, 2025 - Northwestern, like other universities nationwide, has been complying with the new Trump administration’s hefty diversity, equity and inclusion initiative crackdowns.