What’s in NIH’s settlement over delayed research funding?
Jan 5, 2026 - Over 5,000 grants from across the country are covered by the settlement, according to the Massachusetts attorney general’s office.
Higher Ed News
Duke University cut $299 million through buyouts, building closures in response to federal cuts
Dec 29, 2025 - After the Trump administration mandated that universities cut diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, limit international student enrollment and decrease their reliance on federally funded research, Duke University has spent the year finding $299 million in savings.
Will higher education researchers leave for opportunities abroad?
Jan 5, 2026 - As the Trump administration cuts funding to wide swaths of research, foreign countries are ramping up their efforts to recruit top U.S. talent.
7 AI Decisions That Will Define Higher Education In 2026
Dec 26, 2025 - A 2026 playbook for higher ed leaders: 7 decisions on AI infrastructure, governance evidence, student AI fluency, and agentic workflows that scale.
UVA School of Data Science
Dec 28, 2025 - A day in the life of a UVA B.S. in Data Science student studying abroad in Denmark.
TIOBE Index - TIOBE
Dec 24, 2025 - There were murmurs that R was on the way down, but this year R rose back up from 16 to 10.
New species are being discovered faster than ever before, study suggests
Dec 23, 2025 - Researchers projected that there may be 115,000 fish species and 41,000 amphibian species total, considerably higher than the 42,000 fish and 9,000 amphibian species currently known.
Georgia Tech AI4Science Center Awards Inaugural Seed Grants
Dec 16, 2025 - Launched earlier this semester, the center promotes cross-disciplinary research on AI tools that address scientific challenges.
Diversity visa program suspension over Brown shooter could put thousands of applicants in limbo
Dec 19, 2025 - Neves Valente, 48, was found dead Thursday evening from a self-inflicted gunshot wound in New Hampshire after a days-long manhunt.
LLM use in scholarly writing poses a provenance problem
Dec 12, 2025 - LLM use in scholarly writing poses a provenance problem.
What Is Data Poisoning, and How Can It Hurt the Public Sector?
Dec 19, 2025 - Cybersecurity experts say AI and automation are changing how much impact manipulated data can have on government technology systems.
Rivian Partners With Georgia Colleges to Train Engineers
Dec 19, 2025 - A California-based EV startup is working with the University of Georgia, Georgia Tech, Piedmont Technical College and Fort Benning to sponsor various engineering programs in emerging technologies.
Trump administration checks off many Project 2025 education goals
Dec 18, 2025 - Last year, Project 2025 was a conservative wish list. Months later, many of those wishes have become reality, including the goal of doing away with the Education Department.
Trump administration appeals ruling in Harvard University case
Dec 19, 2025 - The federal government seeks to overturn a decision against its previous roughly $2.2 billion freeze on Harvard University's research funding.
Higher-order interactions shape collective human behaviour
Dec 17, 2025 - Battiston et al. discuss the emerging paradigm of higher-order network science and its applications to social systems and human dynamics.
Data science leadership hub director relishes role to guide Pitt through AI landscape
Dec 18, 2025 - As director of HAIL, Colaresi will focus on unifying, expanding responsible data-science mission.
Abigail Jacobs earns Schmidt Sciences grant for interdisciplinary research at the intersection of AI and humanities at U-M
Dec 11, 2025 - Jacobs’ project will bridge AI and humanities to explore how culture, meaning and context shape the way AI interprets images.
NASEM Pathways to Doctoral Degrees in Computing
Dec 20, 2025 - This report recommends addressing this anticipated shortage through improved graduate student recruitment, retention, and mentoring programs as well as targeted interventions to address hiring challenges.
Here's How Howard University Is Expanding AI Pathways For HBCU Students
Dec 16, 2025 - The discussion was led by Talisha Washington, Ph.D., executive director of the Howard University Center for Applied Data Science and Analytics.
Purdue to students: Come and be an AI meat widget!
Dec 17, 2025 - There are emerging best practices for meeting the challenge of AI in education. What Purdue is doing is the opposite.
UWisconsin-Madison Celebrating Winter 2025 CDIS graduates
Dec 15, 2025 - We are excited to congratulate the hundreds of new graduates of the School of Computer, Data & Information Sciences (CDIS) this December.
OklahomaU Researcher Awarded Funding to Pursue AI-Powered Material Design
Dec 15, 2025 - Mike Banad, a researcher with the University of Oklahoma, has been awarded funding from the U.S. Department of Defense to pursue the development of advanced materials that could shape the future of energy-efficient electronics and photonics.
USU Research Offers Ethical Guideposts for the AI Era
Dec 16, 2025 - USU associate professor Jared Hansen published three studies about the challenges of generative AI and offers practical guideposts.
Biochemistry Major Tu-Quyen Dao is Integrating AI Into Healthcare
Dec 12, 2025 - UT student Tu-Quyen studied how pain can be detected through vocal cues.
GT GenAI Summit Highlights AI Innovation
Dec 12, 2025 - The focus of the summit was presentations of six proposals awarded to Georgia Tech faculty in GenAI. This year’s projects focused on the use of generative AI in science.
MIT | Guided learning lets “untrainable” neural networks realize their potential
Dec 18, 2025 - MIT CSAIL study suggests that neural network architectures considered unsuitable for modern tasks can improve with short-term guidance.
Most-Read: The Stanford HAI Stories that Defined AI in 2025
Dec 15, 2025 - Readers wanted to know if their therapy chatbot could be trusted, whether their boss was automating the wrong job, and if their private conversations were training tomorrow's models.
CMU | Using LLMs to better identify market gaps for innovation
Dec 16, 2025 - A new large language model-powered tool from Dietrich College's Vince Sha and the College of Engineering's Jon Cagan converts consumer wants and needs into succinct product attributes and requirements to help product designers think more strategically about solutions.
Penn | Centering joy in AI development and implementation
Dec 18, 2025 - PIK Professor Desmond Upton Patton—of Annenberg and SP2—and collaborators introduce a joy-informed framework designed to initiate conversations among engineers, designers, and researchers.
UTSA Cybersecurity graduate prepares for service and graduate study in inaugural College of AI, Cyber and Computing class
Dec 15, 2025 - This December, he will be among the first students to graduate from the College of AI, Cyber and Computing with a Bachelor of Business Administration in cybersecurity.