UC Irvine graduates qualify for British HPI Visa
Nov 4, 2025 - The British government has updated its list of universities eligible for the High Potential Individual (HPI) Visa — and UC Irvine graduates now qualify!
Higher Ed News
Are Trump’s Settlements Losing Steam?
Nov 3, 2025 - The Trump administration forced significant changes and a fine at Columbia but won limited concessions from Virginia and remains in legal battles with Harvard and UCLA.
USU Michael Twohig Presents 2025 D. Wynne Thorne Lecture
Oct 31, 2025 -Michael Twohig gave the 2025 D. Wynne Thorne Lecture to an audience of colleagues, students and other members of Utah State's research community on Oct. 28.
UIC | Zuck’s call for stronger network protocols published in prestigious CS journal
Oct 29, 2025 - Research Professor Lenore Zuck coauthored a paper encouraging collaboration between the networking community and formal methods researchers to develop formal languages, tools, and methodologies for network protocols.
Universities Must Reclaim AI Research for the Public Good
Oct 30, 2025 - With corporate AI labs turning inward, academia must carry forward the mantle of open science.
Natarajan Ravikumar: From UNC Charlotte to Global Innovator
Oct 31, 2025 - When Natarajan Ravikumar arrived in the United States from India in 2010, he carried with him a vision that would later define a remarkable career at the intersection of technology, leadership, and innovation.
UU SCI’s Expansive Presence at IEEE VIS 2025 Includes Best Paper and Test of Time Awards
Nov 1, 2025 - SCI researchers are presenting 10 workshop papers, organizing 3 workshops, and leading a panel and a tutorial.
U-M Ann Arbor | MIDAS Shaping the Future of AI for Conservation
Oct 30, 2025 - In September 2025, Schmidt Science Fellows and alumni from Oxford, Michigan, and Cornell gathered in Oxford for a week-long workshop titled Shaping the Future of AI for Conservation.
UW–Madison partners with Microsoft and TitletownTech to accelerate AI-driven scientific discovery
OCt 30, 2025 - UW–Madison researchers will work with Microsoft Discovery experts and TitletownTech’s network of industry partners to explore applications of advanced AI that can accelerate research and translation.
UVA SDS | From Classroom to Clinic: Applying Data Science to Global Health in Tanzania
Oct 27, 2025 - A Q&A with MSDS student Kayla Lee as she reflects on her fieldwork through UVA’s Global Data Science Fellowship researching infectious diseases in Tanzania.
UChicago DSI | Two Postdoctoral Scholars Awarded Fellowships
Oct 31, 2025 - The Data Science Institute is pleased to announce that two members of its Postdoctoral Scholars program have been awarded named fellowships in recognition of their exceptional research.
Applications are open for Penn AI Postdoctoral Fellowships
Oct 31, 2025 - The Data Driven Discovery Initiative has expanded its Penn postdoctoral fellows program in partnership with Penn AI.
Neighborhood Data Project Probes Environmental Challenges
Oct 31, 2025 - Even with diminished federal funding, organizers of the Baltimore-Social Environmental Collaborative plan to empower community members to keep collecting data and putting it to use.
Xavier University lays off 46 staff amid financial pressures
Oct 30, 2025 - Despite other reports, the university does not anticipate additional layoffs in the near future.
Week in review: 2 colleges volunteer for Trump’s compact
Nov 3, 2025 - Sweeping layoffs at a well-known ed tech company to the sector's fight against the $100K H-1B fee.
‘End of an era’: Experts warn research executive order could stifle scientific innovation
Nov 3, 2025 - The directive gives President Donald Trump’s political appointees oversight of grant awards to align them with the administration’s priorities.
Too much social media gives AI chatbots ‘brain rot’
Oct 31, 2025 - Large language models fed low-quality data skip steps in their reasoning process.
Nine new tenure-track faculty join Johns Hopkins Computer Science
Oct 29, 2025 - Their research spans social computing and human-computer interaction to the theoretical foundations and real-world applications of machine learning models.
Scaling Laws: AI and Energy: What do we know? What are we learning?
Oct 14, 2024 - Discussing the energy costs of artificial intelligence.
We need a new Turing test to assess AI’s real-world knowledge
Oct 29, 2025 - A fresh set of benchmarks could help specialists to better understand artificial intelligence.
This ‘impressive’ AI model predicted Hurricane Melissa’s perilous growth
Oct 29, 2025 - Using an AI model developed by Google DeepMind, scientists have been able to accurately predict the trajectory and growth of Hurricane Melissa, a powerful and record-setting storm.
Computationally accelerated organic synthesis – Optimal ligand prediction for generating reactive alkyl ketone radicals
Oct 29, 2025 - Computational method accurately predicts the optimal ligand for a photochemical palladium catalyst that enables new alkyl ketone radical reactions.
Emails show UW-Madison to lay off 31 employees, among other cuts
Oct 29, 2025 - Campus leaders’ emails reveal how the university is making budget cuts amid the Trump administration’s ‘disinvestment’ from higher education.
Shorter term, bigger gain? More colleges try eight-week calendar
Oct 29, 2025 - Colleges that have switched most or all classes to an eight-week cycle see much to like.
More first-generation students in Texas are applying for college
Oct 27, 2025 - Huge increase in applicants stems from getting extra support in the college application process, experts say
Bill Gropp Named Chair of CRA’s Computing Community Consortium (CCC)
Oct 28, 2025 - Gropp is expected to serve as CCC Chair through June 30, 2028. Gropp has long been an influential leader in high-performance computing (HPC) and in shaping national research directions in computing.
Data Science for All: K-12 Pathways for Future-Ready Skills
Oct 24, 2025 - New NSF grant funds project to build data science pathways into core subjects.
what do americans think of higher ed anyway?
Oct 29, 2025 - Two recent surveys give strikingly different answers.
The Uses and Limits of Algorithmic Impact Assessments
Oct 29, 2025 - Explore an extensive toolkit, documentation of AIMLab's pilots, and a series of reflections on lessons learned.
The Chronicle of Higher Education | AI on Campus: Emerging Governance Models
Oct 29, 2025 - Finding ways to make AI work across campus to support administrators, faculty, and students must start by creating an AI-governance framework that puts them on paths toward AI literacy.