Harvard Officials Say Federal Actions Could Cost the University $1 Billion Annually
Jul 14, 2025 - The combined financial impact of sweeping federal policy changes could cost the University up to $1 billion annually.
Higher Ed News
UChicago | Neil Shubin nominated as next president of National Academy of Sciences
Jul 14, 2025 - Renowned evolutionary biologist to lead esteemed organization beginning June 2026.
UW-Madison eliminates Division of Diversity, Equity & Educational Achievement, moves programs, staff to other units
Jul 9, 2025 - Fewer than 10 employees previously under DDEEA were laid off.
A language model built for the public good
Jul 9, 2025 - ETH Zurich and EPFL will release a large language model (LLM) developed on public infrastructure.
Oregon State University ending 2 DEI programs in 2025
Jul 11, 2025 - Oregon State University is ending two programs in 2025 as the school continues to evolve what it calls “inclusive excellence.”
Virginia Tech’s Academy of Data Science begins a new era
Jul 1, 2025 - New leadership takes over the academy and managing a new master’s degree in data science.
Emory | Where Tradition Meets High-Tech Scholarship
Jul 8, 2025 - Digital humanities at Emory foster a deeper understanding of the world we live in.
State AI leaders gather at Princeton to consider how the technology can improve public services
Jul 11, 2025 - The conference brought together more than 100 AI leaders, representing 25 states.
SciML Summer School a Success with Students - TAMIDS
Jul 14, 2025 - Members of the TAMIDS team and the Student Ambassador program hosted a week-long scientific machine learning summer school!
eScience Institute | Staff Spotlight: Cordero Core
Jul 11, 2025 - Cordero Core is a Senior Research Software Engineer at our Scientific Software Engineering Center (SSEC).
OSU TDAI Hosts International Conference on Scalable Scientific Data Management (SSDBM 2025)
Jul 10, 2025 - The Translational Data Analytics Institute (TDAI) at The Ohio State University proudly hosted the 37th International Conference on Scalable Scientific Data Management (SSDBM 2025).
UNC-CH SDSS faculty member Can Chen selected for program for early career scholars at Sweden’s KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Jul 10, 2025 - The program provides early career scholars at non-Swedish universities with an opportunity to visit the largest institution in Sweden for technical education and research.
UChicago DSI Alums Talk Careers in Data Science for Social Good at Parliament Data
Jul 11, 2025 - Data scientists from Parliament Data return to campus to share insights into client services for social impact.
Ritambhara Singh awarded NSF CAREER grant for her research on “Integrating Heterogenous Health Data for Improved Predictive and Explainable Methods.”
Jul 9, 2025 - Ritambhara Singh, an Assistant Professor of Data Science and Computer Science and CCMB Faculty Member, was recently awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Grant.
University Leaders Propose New Research Funding Model
Jul 14, 2025 - Some lawmakers and the Trump administration have criticized the government’s long-standing model for reimbursing universities for indirect research costs.
George Mason Is the Latest University Under Fire From Trump. Its President Fears an “Orchestrated” Campaign.
Jul 11, 2025 - When university president Gregory Washington received notice that the Trump administration had opened an investigation into complaints of antisemitism, he was “perplexed.”
Rajesh Gupta Appointed Dean of School of Computing, Information and Data Sciences
Jul 10, 2025 - Rajesh K. Gupta, a distinguished computer scientist and seasoned academic leader, has been named founding dean of the School of Computing, Information and Data Sciences (SCIDS).
Announcing GenAI Processors: Build powerful and flexible Gemini applications
Jul 10, 2025 - A new open-source Python library for building powerful and flexible Gemini applications with streamlined, real-time multimodal processing.
Medical needles in the hands of AI: Advancing toward autonomous robotic navigation
Jul 9, 2025 - AI guidance is enabling robots to perform medical needle-based procedures with greater safety and accuracy.
Research-integrity sleuths say their work is being ‘twisted’ to undermine science
Jul 9, 2025 - Some sleuths fear that the business of cleaning up flawed studies is being weaponized against science itself.
CUNY Professor Receives $1.78M Simons Foundation Grant to Launch Climate Data Science Research Group
Jul 9, 2025 - Professor Viviana Acquaviva (GC/City Tech, Physics, Astrophysics) has received a $1.78 million grant from the Simons Foundation to build a research group in the emerging field of climate data science.
Over Half of R&D Expenditures at U.S. Colleges and Universities Have Been Funded by the Federal Government
Jul 10, 2025 - Since the 1950s, over half of R&D expenditures at U.S. colleges and universities have been funded by the federal government, with the share of institution funding increasing to a fourth of the total in recent years.
'Sovereignty' Myth-Making in the AI Race
Jul 7, 2025 - Tech companies stand to gain by encouraging the illusion of a race for 'sovereign' AI, write Rui-Jie Yew, Kate Elizabeth Creasey, Suresh Venkatasubramanian.
University of Tennessee plans to attract 'rockstar' researchers amid US college 'turmoil'
Jul 9, 2025 - University of Tennessee at Knoxville Chancellor Donde Plowman says she wants to take research to the "next level" at the state's flagship campus.
George Washington University hints at layoffs amid federal policy upheaval
Jul 9, 2025 - The private nonprofit is facing an “unsustainable compounding deficit” and uncertainty about research funding, top officials said in a community message.
Springer Nature book on machine learning is full of made-up citations
Jun 30, 2025 - Would you pay $169 for an introductory ebook on machine learning with citations that appear to be made up?
Field of Bachelor's Degree in the United States: 2022
Jul 9, 2025 - This report provides a comprehensive review of field of bachelor’s degree data and associated earnings using recently released American Community survey data.
Predicting the Future of Supercomputing
Jul 1, 2025 - The need to solve high-complexity problems using large-scale tightly coupled computing (that is, supercomputing) continues to grow. In this article, we address the needs, challenges, and opportunities for supercomputing over the next decade.
Boston University to lay off 120 staffers amid budget challenges
Jul 9, 2025 - The private institution faces federal funding uncertainty along with operational headaches such as rising costs.
Data manipulation within the US Federal Government
Jul 3, 2025 - US public health agencies that publish large amounts of data on their websites have been altering the contents of those datasets in ways that might be politically motivated and not transparent