Meet the early-career scientists planning to leave the United States
Jul 25, 2025 - Decreased funding, reduced opportunities and growing uncertainty has made life tough for international postdocs living in the US.
Higher Ed News
Postdocs get more equipment time when applications are anonymized
Jul 28, 2025 - Early-career researchers’ access to neutron-beam instruments jumped from 61% to 78% at one Australian facility.
UT Austin Expands Research on AI Accuracy and Reliability to Support Breakthroughs in Science, Technology and the Workforce
Jul 29, 2025 - An AI institute based at UT Austin will receive continued funding for research that will improve the accuracy and reliability of AI models and lead to new drug development and improvements in clinical diagnoses.
Nashville's Vanderbilt University in talks to open a campus in downtown San Francisco
Jul 29, 2025 - Former San Francisco Mayor London Breed believes a new university campus would benefit the whole city in multiple ways, calling it a unique approach to revitalizing the city's urban core.
Brown secures $500 million loan amid federal funding uncertainty
Jul 28, 2025 - Brown has secured a $500 million loan amid federal cuts to research and financial aid in recent months, marking at least the second major loan the University has taken out in the span of four months.
GMU Faculty Senate targeted in DOJ letter - Virginia Business
Jul 28, 2025 - U.S. Department of Justice's civil rights division is requesting "all written communications" regarding GMU faculty senate resolution.
Federal officials open probes into Duke University’s law journal, medical school
Jul 29, 2025 - The investigations into the North Carolina college come less than a week after the Trump administration struck a controversial deal with Columbia University.
Will Trump's AI Policies Kill Federal Support in Your State?
Jul 29, 2025 - A new plan from President Donald Trump proposes that states with restrictive AI laws should lose federal funding.
Schools and colleges nationwide face Trump investigations
Jul 28, 2025 - The Trump administration is investigating allegations of antisemitism and racial discrimination against white students at dozens of colleges.
A.I.-Driven Education: Founded in Texas and Coming to a School Near You
Jul 27, 2025 - At Austin’s Alpha School, students spend just two hours a day on academics, led by artificial intelligence tools. New Alpha schools are set to open in about a dozen cities this fall.
1 in 2 graduates say their college major didn’t prepare them for today’s market
Jun 29, 2025 - Respondents report feeling unprepared in numerous ways, especially in finding a job after graduation and navigating student debt and personal finances.
22 new state laws censor higher ed, PEN America finds
Jul 28, 2025 - The bills, which were enacted during the first half of 2025, “have been just as devastating” as federal attacks on the sector, the free speech group said.
Duke University layoffs to come; nearly 600 employees took buyouts
Jul 25, 2025 - Nearly 600 employees at Duke University opted to take buyouts through the school's Voluntary Separation Incentive Program (VSIP).
Faculty Often Missing From University Decisions on AI
Jul 22, 2025 - A new survey from the AAUP shows that a breakdown of shared governance around implementing AI has implications for the future of teaching, learning and job security.
University of Oxford | Charlotte Deane joins UK government AI for Science expert panel
Jul 22, 2025 - Professor Charlotte Deane from the Department of Statistics will help shape the UK government's new AI for Science strategy as one of five experts appointed to advise on the initiative.
AI-Powered Vision System Helps Drones Navigate Safely
Jul 23, 2025 - Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute (RI) have developed an AI-powered vision system that helps drones safely detect and avoid other aircraft in crowded skies, without relying on bulky, expensive sensors.
UPenn | AI finds hundreds of potential antibiotics in snake and spider venom
Jul 21, 2025 - Research from the lab of César de la Fuente on an AI-powered screen of global venom libraries uncovers dozens of promising drug candidates.
Notre Dame | Huebner Receives Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Advising
Jul 23, 2025 - Alan Huebner is the recipient of the 2025 College of Science Sister Kathleen Cannon Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Advising.
Keck Foundation grant to support Princeton AI tool for exoplanet detection
Jul 22, 2025 - Researchers from Princeton University’s Department of Astrophysical Sciences and the Center for Statistics and Machine Learning have received a $900,000 grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation to build an artificial intelligence system that will aid in the search for Earth-like planets.
NJIT David Bader Selected Among '35 Legends in the Class of 2025' by HPCwire
Jul 16, 2025 - The honorees are selected annually based on contributions to the HPC community over the past 35 years that have been instrumental in improving the quality of life on our planet through technology.
ACM Meeting at NJIT Highlights Tech Education for Disabled Students
Jul 22, 2025 - New Jersey Institute of Technology this summer hosted the 10th edition of the RESPECT conference.
UCSD HDSI Postdoc Neha Sangwan Receives Award for Making Digital Networks Safer
Jul 22, 2025 - Neha Sangwan, a postdoctoral scholar at UC San Diego’s Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute (HDSI), has been selected as the recipient of the prestigious 2025 IEEE Information Theory Society Thomas M. Cover Dissertation Award.
U-M Ann Arbor | Two CSE students awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
Jul 23, 2025 - The fellowship recognizes graduate students in STEM fields for their outstanding research achievements.
TAMIDS Announces 2025-2026 Cohort of Student Ambassadors
Jul 25, 2025 - Sixteen PhD students were selected for this competitive scholarship.
UBC Master of Data Science | BC Ministry of Environment and Parks
Jul 25, 2025 - The site remediation program with BC Ministry of Environment and Parks has worked with a group of UBC Master of Data Science Computational Linguistics students to research, implement and compare the best data science approach to add meta data tags to thousands of site remediation documents.
UW Professor Magdalena Balazinska elected to Washington State Academy of Sciences
Jul 23, 2025 - Magdalena Balazinska has been elected a member of the Washington State Academy of Sciences in recognition of her “contributions in data management for data science, big data systems, cloud computing, and image/video analytics and leadership in data science education.”
UMN DSI | AI Explorers Summer Camp Wraps Up Two Weeks of Innovation, Fun, and Surprise Visitors
Jul 25, 2025 - Hosted by the Data Science and AI Hub at the University of Minnesota, this immersive experience brought high school students to campus to dive into the world of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data science.
UW eScience Institute | Staff Spotlight: Anissa Tanweer
Jul 23, 2025 - Something that was important to her when she took on the role of directing the Data Science for Social Good program was that “we are not just presuming that we are doing social good because we say we are, but that this is really about figuring out can we and how do we try to have some sort of good impact on society while doing data science.”
UC Berkeley BIDS | Digital Dunhuang Caves: Preserving a World Heritage Site Through Data and Technology
Jul 23, 2025- In April, BIDS welcomed Dr. Tianxiu Yu and Dr. Yanpeng Song for a special seminar exploring how large-scale digitization is preserving one of the world’s most significant cultural sites.
UVA SDS | Stephen Turner on returning to academia
Jul 21, 2025 - Returning to UVA, Stephen Turner is blending data science, biology, and ethics to drive interdisciplinary research and education at the School of Data Science.