UA’s Record Enrollment Growth Reinforces In-State Investment, Academic Excellence
Sep 15, 2025 - The University of Alabama set a new enrollment record this year, welcoming 42,360 students for fall 2025, a 3.7% increase.
Higher Ed News
Tillerson Investments in Civics, Engineering and Longhorn Band Prepare Future Leaders
Sep 17, 2025 - Rex Tillerson has made transformational investments in UT’s School of Civic Leadership, the Cockrell School of Engineering and Longhorn Band.
BSU Faculty win largest NSF award in university history to create semiconductor workforce center
Sep 17, 2025 - A team of Boise State University faculty are making university history and amplifying Idaho’s semiconductor workforce potential with a new $7.4 million U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) award, the largest NSF award in Boise State history.
The AI Threat to Liberal Arts Is More Fundamental Than You Think
Sep 18, 2025 - Maybe Harvard is preparing us perfectly. Maybe the world is what’s broken. And maybe, the best way to prepare for the world while at Harvard is not learning how to understand but instead understanding how to optimize.
Ohio State Regional Campus Commitment to provide free tuition for eligible students
Sep 17, 2025 - New program makes it possible for eligible students who start on a regional campus to earn their Ohio State degree tuition free.
UTS cuts more than 1,100 subjects and 134 full-time jobs in restructure
Sep 17, 2025 - The University of Technology Sydney will close its schools of education and public health under a multi-million-dollar restructure.
Emory: Free tuition for students from families making under $200,000
Sep 18, 2025 - Starting next academic year, Emory University will be tuition-free for undergraduates whose families earn less than $200,000, a move that could help hundreds of students.
Washington State marks three consecutive years of growth among incoming first‑year students
Sep 18, 2025 - Enrollment retention also shows improvement, climbing past 80%.
Governor Hochul Announces $300 Million Investment in SUNY at Stony Brook’s Quantum Research and Innovation Hub
Sep 17, 2025 - Gov. Hochul announced $300 million to establish the Quantum Research and Innovation Hub at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, further catapulting New York’s national leadership in groundbreaking research that saves lives, grows the economy and improves national security.
Microsoft to open quantum research center near University of Maryland, College Park
Sep 17, 2025 - Microsoft is opening a new quantum research center near the University of Maryland, part of a push to make the state a hub for quantum science.
H. Andrew Schwartz joins Vanderbilt's College of Connected Computing
Sep 13, 2025 - H. Andrew Schwartz, whose “HLAB” research includes improvements to state of the art in artificial intelligence, has moved to the new College of Connecting Computing.
How to build AI scaling laws for efficient LLM training and budget maximization
Sep 16, 2025 - MIT and MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab researchers have developed a universal guide for estimating how large language models (LLMs) will perform based on smaller models in the same family.
UIllinois Chicago | Former student Khairi Reda joins CS faculty
Sep 16, 2025 - Reda earned both of his graduate degrees from UIC; he completed his MS in 2009 and his PhD in 2014. He works primarily in data visualization and computer graphics.
UNC-C | Mitu Banerjee: Redefining Her Path Through Lifelong Learning
Sep 17, 2025 - After nearly three decades away from the classroom, Mitu Banerjee made the bold decision to return to higher education
UPenn | Deepfakes, digital doubles, and the law: Jennifer Rothman on protecting identity in the AI era
Sep 15, 2025 - The evolution of AI technology may require more robust copyright laws and guardrails that protect people’s control of their own identities, says the Penn Carey Law professor.
UCR researchers fortify AI against rogue rewiring
Sep 4, 2025 - As generative AI models move from massive cloud servers to phones and cars, they’re stripped down to save power. But what gets trimmed can include the technology that stops them from spewing hate speech or offering roadmaps for criminal activity.
UCSD | UCR Scientists Use NSF Supercomputers to Reveal How “Jumping Genes” can Transform Gene Editing Technologies
Sep 18, 2025 - UC Riverside (UCR) researchers recently utilized U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) ACCESS allocations to uncover how a bacterial protein can steer the “jumping” of genes to specific spots in the genome.
WashU | Kannampallil and Wiley named among 24 new ACMI Fellows
Sep 18, 2025 - Thomas Kannampallil, PhD, FAMIA, and Laura Wiley, PhD, FAMIA, have been named among 24 new Fellows to be inducted into the American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI).
Princeton AI Lab Welcomes New Postdocs
Sep 9, 2025 - The incoming postdocs will contribute to the research coming from the AI Lab’s three initiatives, AI for Accelerating Invention (AI2), Natural and Artificial Minds (NAM), and Princeton Language and Intelligence (PLI).
JHU Data Science and AI Institute announces 22 new faculty
Aug 25, 2025 - These newly appointed faculty members join more than 150 Data Science and AI Institute faculty members across Johns Hopkins.
UW eScience | Software for Community-Driven Enumeration: Needs Assessment of People Experiencing Homelessness
Sep 8, 2025 - To better understand and support people living without shelter, Dr. Zack Almquist, and his team are partnering with the King County Regional Homelessness Authority to develop a new way of counting and learning about this population.
NC State | Meet Our 2025 Incoming Class
Sep 8, 2025 - The newest members of our Wolfpack are ready to make the most of their time at NC State. Get to know six students in the incoming class of 2025.
UC San Diego Plays Key Role in National Effort to Build a Fusion Research Data Platform
Sep 16, 2025 - The data platform will unite scattered research data and workflows into a single U.S. resource.
UNC-Chapel Hill New majors, minors and more begin in fall 2025
Sep 8, 2025 - Carolina’s latest academic options include a minor in risk management and a graduate program in Africana studies.
UVA Data Science Faculty Awarded Jefferson Trust Grant to Advance AI-Empowered Student Support
Sep 17, 2025 - UVA Data Science faculty win $154K Jefferson Trust grant to build scalable AI tools that personalize student support and transform teaching assistants’ roles.
U-M Ann Arbor | Simulated humanoid robots learn to hike rugged terrain autonomously
Sep 16, 2025 - Now able to learn locomotion and navigation together, robots develop balanced gaits and safe routes.
UPenn Pranam Chatterjee Designs Novel AI Frameworks for Biotechnology
Sep 18, 2025 - Chatterjee turned to artificial intelligence (AI) as his tool of choice in the engineering world.
Penn State Institute for Computational and Data Sciences Symposium scheduled for Oct. 6
Sep 15, 2025 - The Penn State Institute for Computational and Data Sciences (ICDS) annual symposium event will be held Monday, Oct. 6 from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Brown CCMB Junior Faculty Ying Ma receives 3 grants from NSF and NIH
Sep 15, 2025 - Ying Ma, the Edens Family Assistant Professor of Healthcare Communications and Technology and Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, will address genomic challenges using computational methods in her upcoming research supported by three recent grants from the NSF and NIH.
UUtah | Second Annual Symposium Recap: Initiative Fuels State Leadership in Responsible AI
Sep 18, 2025 - The University of Utah One-U Responsible AI Initiative (One-U RAI) showcased how it’s raising the state’s profile in ethical innovation by forging cross-sector partnerships, boosting regional infrastructure, and supporting researchers using AI to improve lives—to diagnose rare diseases in children, restore water to the Great Salt Lake, help middle schoolers learn math, and more.