Where is the best place to hold a scientific conference right now?
Jun 19, 2025 - An immigration crackdown makes the United States less attractive. These locations could steal its crown and make conferences more globally inclusive.
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Tracking the Trump administration’s moves to cap indirect research funding
Jun 19, 2025 - The agencies that have tried to limit reimbursement for overhead costs to 15% — and the legal challenges against them.
Unpacking the bias of large language models
Jun 17, 2025 - MIT researchers discovered the underlying cause of position bias, a phenomenon that causes large language models to overemphasize the beginning or end of a document or conversation, while neglecting the middle.
What would the ‘big, beautiful bill’s’ higher endowment tax mean for Duke?
Jun 17, 2025 - The bill might raise the endowment tax for Duke from 1.4% to 7%, and it could raise the tax by nearly 20 percentage points for other institutions.
UPenn announces 4.9% acceptance rate for Class of 2029 in most selective year on record
Jun 13, 2025 - Out of the 72,544 students who applied to Penn, 3,530 applicants were accepted, marking a 4.9% acceptance rate.
Stanford celebrates its largest graduating class ever at Commencement 2025
Jun 15, 2025 - More than 21,000 attendees filled Stanford Stadium for a celebration.
Brown University, others sue Department of Defense over cuts to federal research funding
Jun 16, 2025 - The University stands to lose $3 million in federal dollars this fiscal year from the new limit on indirect research costs.
Judge orders federal government to restore some canceled NIH funds
Jun 18, 2025 - U.S. District Court Judge William Young ruled that President Donald Trump’s administration unlawfully cancelled NIH funding for research related to topics of DEI
UAmsterdam DSC Away Day
Jun 18, 2025 - The DSC Away Day explored how AI in video challenges our creativity, ethics, and ways of working - set against the backdrop of the Eye Film Institute.
UPenn | ‘Where AI Works’
Jun 9, 2025 - The Wharton School’s new podcast conducts conversations at the intersection of artificial intelligence and industry.
UCSD SDSC Leader Shares Vision for AI Energy Use Practices at Copenhagen AI Summit
Jun 16, 2025 - The summit provided government, policymakers, funders, infrastructure and hardware experts a chance to share best practices, lessons learned and plans to meet energy needs in the ever-changing AI arena.
Columbia DSI | Merging AI and Environmental Science for Better Climate Predictions
Jun 18, 2025 - Postdoctoral researcher Shuolin Li is combining ML and physics to create more powerful and accurate AI-powered climate models.
UMichigan-Ann Arbor | AI generates data to help embodied agents ground language to 3D world
Jun 13, 2025 - The model trained on the synthetic dataset, 3D-GRAND, had higher grounding accuracy and hallucinated drastically less compared to their predecessors.
UMichigan-Ann Arbor | NSF RDSV Project Workshop – MIDAS
Jun 18, 2025 - The Research and Development Strategic Visioning (RDSV) team recently hosted its second workshop on Collaborative Design of Data and AI Systems for Science and Society with a diverse group of experts from U-M, Microsoft and Detroit.
UNC-CH | Building student AI literacy
Jun 9, 2025 - Students have questions about artificial intelligence. Materials from the Carolina AI Literacy Initiative help them learn to use AI effectively and responsibly.
UChicago | Five DSI Scholars Set to Continue in Academia
Jun 18, 2025 - The Data Science Institute (DSI) is excited to share that several members of its Postdoctoral Scholars program and Preceptor program will be moving on to academic positions this fall.
HDSI | Newly Funded: Improving Trust in Scientific Research Among Patients
Jun 18, 2025 - Gordon McKay professor of Computer Science Krzystof Gajos received HDSI funding to create a new platform that helps foster trust with individuals with movement disorders.
Fond Farewell to Two DSI Faculty: Roberta DeVito and Shekhar Pradhan
Jun 16, 2025 - DSI Faculty Roberta De Vito and Shekhar Pradhan will be leaving Brown at the end of the month after years of service to the Data Science Institute and Brown.
State Dept. restarts student visa interviews with tougher social media rules
Jun 18, 2025 - Foreign nationals who seek visas to study in the United States will have to make social media posts public to be scrutinized for hostility toward the U.S.
Here’s the next cohort of the Google.org Accelerator: Generative AI
Jun 9, 2025 - Meet the 20 organizations using generative AI to address tough societal issues.
NAS President Says U.S. Science Is Facing ‘Pessimistic’ Future, Urges Changes to Regain Leadership in Science
Jun 9, 2025 - Marcia McNutt warned of a “pessimistic future” for U.S. science, from federal budget cuts to a burdensome regulatory environment to a loss of international talent, and proposed a range of actions to strengthen the research enterprise.
NIH ruling is latest blow to RFK Jr.'s agenda
Jun 17, 2025 - A federal judge's ruling could allow researchers to restart work on subjects including cancer, diabetes, Alzheimer's and HIV.
Tennessee State raises tuition 6% amid budget stabilization effort
Jun 16, 2025 - Even with the tuition hike, the public historically Black institution faces a nearly $39 million shortfall.
Kids are ditching traditional college for career tech programs. Parents are concerned.
Jun 15, 2025 - There's an emerging generational divide on attending college after high school.
Potential Pell Grant changes could unfairly impact Native college students
Jun 15, 2025 - Native leaders say a Congressional proposal to increase credit hour requirements and reduce the maximum amounts of Pell Grants could disproportionately affect Native students
University of Nebraska looks to cut another $20M from its budget
Jun 13, 2025 - Amid state and federal funding challenges, the public Midwestern institution has already cut tens of millions of dollars in spending in recent years.
Education Department reinstates some research and data activities
Jun 16, 2025 - Trump administration lawyers admit some DOGE cuts violated congressional statutes
NIH documents reveal inconsistencies in grant terminations as agency reviews 3200 more
Jun 13, 2025 - Evidence of agency’s uneven guidance to employees and role of DOGE could play into legal case against cuts
How you breathe is like a fingerprint that can identify you
Jun 12, 2025 - An algorithm could identify people from their breath patterns with 96.8% accuracy.
NJIT, TekStream Launch Student-Run Cybersecurity Center
Jun 11, 2025 - The New Jersey Institute of Technology's Security Operations Center will allow students to gain professional experience while monitoring and addressing cybersecurity threats with help from a cybersecurity firm.