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ASU announces funding cuts, student leaders voice underlying issues

Mar. 31, 2025 - The total appropriations budget for the school year was $945,000. This number was expanded from the approximate $643,000 figure from the 2023-2024 school year after funding had been depleted by spring break.

ASU announces funding cuts, student leaders voice underlying issues

New price tag: Tuition hikes threaten socioeconomic diversity at Emory

Mar. 31, 2025 - Full tuition will now be $67,080, totaling a staggering $88,536 in tuition, fees, room and board.

New price tag: Tuition hikes threaten socioeconomic diversity at Emory

Trump Science Funding Cuts May Hurt Economy, Experts Say

Mar. 31, 2025 - Since World War II, U.S. research funding has led to discoveries that fueled economic gains. Now cutbacks are seen as putting that legacy in jeopardy.

Trump Science Funding Cuts May Hurt Economy, Experts Say

Vanderbilt University Medical Center will cut at least $250M as federal government slashes health spending

Mar. 30, 2025 - CEO Jeff Balser informed his staff about the reductions in a video this week.

Vanderbilt University Medical Center will cut at least $250M as federal government slashes health spending

Financially strapped Rosemont College will merge with Villanova University

Mar. 31, 2025 - The transition will begin in 2027 and conclude in 2028. The agreement means the Philadelphia region eventually will be losing Rosemont, the second Catholic college to close in a short time frame.

Financially strapped Rosemont College will merge with Villanova University

Widespread job cuts begin at health agencies

Apr. 1, 2025 - The layoffs and reorganization efforts reflect the extent to which Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is willing to go to remake the country's public health infrastructure.

Widespread job cuts begin at health agencies

Northwestern faces another congressional investigation

Mar. 31, 2025 - This time, a committee argues that legal clinics at the law school are using tax dollars to “engage in progressive-left political advocacy.”

Northwestern faces another congressional investigation

Trump administration pulls waiver that supported undocumented college students in Oregon, California

Mar. 28, 2025 - The U.S. Department of Education has revoked waivers that allowed colleges and universities in Oregon and California to provide services to undocumented students through federal funds.

Trump administration pulls waiver that supported undocumented college students in Oregon, California

Ohio and Kentucky enact laws banning DEI at public colleges

Mar. 31, 2025 - Conservative lawmakers in both states successfully pushed through the bills after failed attempts in previous years.

Ohio and Kentucky enact laws banning DEI at public colleges

Harvard University faces $9B federal funding review

Mar. 31, 2025 - The investigation into the Ivy League institution is the largest yet by the Trump administration’s Joint Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism.

Harvard University faces $9B federal funding review

A Bit (or Qubit) About Quantum Computing: Q&A with Mark Horowitz

Mar. 27, 2025 - Mark Horowitz, who chaired a 2019 National Academies report on the subject, answered questions about quantum computing and progress in the field since the report’s release.

A Bit (or Qubit) About Quantum Computing: Q&A with Mark Horowitz

Harvard Dismisses Leaders of Center for Middle Eastern Studies

Mar. 28, 2025 - Interim Harvard Dean of Social Science dismissed the director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, professor of Turkish Studies Cemal Kafadar, and its associate director, History professor Rosie Bsheer.

Harvard Dismisses Leaders of Center for Middle Eastern Studies

In the mind of the machine: U of T researcher explores AI’s most existential questions

Mar. 31, 2025 - When Karina Vold began her postdoctoral research in 2017, the idea of focusing on philosophy and the still emerging field of AI drew quizzical looks.

In the mind of the machine: U of T researcher explores AI’s most existential questions

Catholic Relief Services hit by USAID budget cuts

Mar. 31, 2025 - Catholic Relief Services, a longtime partner of the Pulte Institute for Global Development, has lost 62% of their funding with the recent federal budget cuts.

Catholic Relief Services hit by USAID budget cuts

Elevating the Quantum@MIT Initiative

Mar. 31, 2025 - An initiative is now taking shape, thanks to her support and the vision and input of faculty and researchers across the School of Science, School of Engineering, and Schwarzman College of Computing.

Elevating the Quantum@MIT Initiative

Duke admits record-low 3.67% of Regular Decision applicants to Class of 2029, overall acceptance rate 4.8%

Mar. 31, 2025 - The University received a record-high 53,223 Regular Decision applications, bringing the cycle’s acceptance rate to an all-time low of 3.67%, down from 4.1% last year.

Duke admits record-low 3.67% of Regular Decision applicants to Class of 2029, overall acceptance rate 4.8%

UMich faces critical student backlash after eliminating DEI

Mar. 31, 2025 - Student organizations condemned the University ending DEI in a critical joint statement, saying that it represented the submission to federal attacks on higher education.

UMich faces critical student backlash after eliminating DEI

Trump Administration To Review Billions in Federal Funding to Harvard

Mar. 31, 2025 - Three federal agencies announced a review of more than $250 million in federal grants and contracts to Harvard as part of an ongoing investigation into the University by the Federal Task Force to Combat Antisemitism.

Trump Administration To Review Billions in Federal Funding to Harvard

Vanderbilt receives $25 million gift for new College of Connected Computing

Mar. 28, 2025 - John (B.A. ‘95) and Laura Arnold recently donated $25 million to the newfound College of Connected Computing.

Vanderbilt receives $25 million gift for new College of Connected Computing

The Northwestern Graduate School replaces Diversity Office with Office of Graduate and Postdoctoral Success

Mar. 29. 2025 - This restructuring represents the latest episode in the erasure of diversity, equity and inclusion practices at NU.

The Northwestern Graduate School replaces Diversity Office with Office of Graduate and Postdoctoral Success

George Washington U | Number of tenured, tenure-track faculty falls to decade low

Mar. 31, 2025 - After tenured and tenure-track status for regular faculty dropped to a decade low this academic year, faculty said the steady decline in the number of tenured and tenure-line faculty could harm the University’s research mission.

George Washington U | Number of tenured, tenure-track faculty falls to decade low

Trump returned to office 10 weeks ago. Here’s how his policies have reshaped Penn.

Mar. 30, 2025 - Ten weeks into Trump’s second presidential term, The Daily Pennsylvanian compiled the impacts of federal policy changes on Penn and examined how the University has responded.

Trump returned to office 10 weeks ago. Here’s how his policies have reshaped Penn.

Brown administrators clarify immigration enforcement policies, address research funding cuts

Mar. 31, 2025 - The letter follows the deportation of Assistant Professor Rasha Alawieh and cuts to federal funding at Columbia and Penn.

Brown administrators clarify immigration enforcement policies, address research funding cuts

Yale refutes ICE presence rumors but releases law enforcement guide, restricts building access

Mar. 29, 2025 - Yale Public Safety announced that campus building access will be restricted to ID holders.

Yale refutes ICE presence rumors but releases law enforcement guide, restricts building access

Columbia, Trump, and $400 million: 25 years ago and now

Mar. 31, 2025 - Although the decision was made this month, Trump’s conflict with Columbia dates back 25 years.

Columbia, Trump, and $400 million: 25 years ago and now

UAmsterdam DSC Member Spotlight: Annika Rausch

Mar. 27, 2025 - Annika Rausch is a data scientist and project leader at the EvA Service Centre of the Amsterdam UMC.

UAmsterdam DSC Member Spotlight: Annika Rausch

Carnegie Mellon University and Google Public Sector Partner to Accelerate AI Research with Extensive GPU Cloud Deployment

Mar. 28, 2025 - This collaboration will enable CMU's world-class research to reach a new level of impact in AI for scientific discovery and commercial applications.

Carnegie Mellon University and Google Public Sector Partner to Accelerate AI Research with Extensive GPU Cloud Deployment

UCSD Expanse Supercomputer Used for Breakthrough Immunotherapy Study

Mar. 26, 2025 - A groundbreaking discovery published in Nature Immunology has shed light on why the immune system is less aggressive toward self-antigens, offering new opportunities to enhance cancer immunotherapy.

UCSD Expanse Supercomputer Used for Breakthrough Immunotherapy Study

Researchers test latest technology at ‘AI Jam’

Mar. 26, 2025 - More than 80 researchers from the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory and Princeton University gathered together in the Lewis Science Library to test some of the latest AI tools.

Researchers test latest technology at ‘AI Jam’

Brain-to-voice neuroprosthesis restores naturalistic speech

Mar. 31, 2025 - Ateam of researchers from UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco has unlocked a way to restore naturalistic speech for people with severe paralysis.

Brain-to-voice neuroprosthesis restores naturalistic speech