George Mason University violated civil rights law, Education Department alleges
Aug 22, 2025 - The agency singled out the university’s president and called for him to publicly apologize "for promoting unlawful discriminatory practices."
Higher Ed News
‘Wrong and deeply disappointing’: Supreme Court halts order restoring NIH grants
Aug 22, 2025 - The high court's Thursday decision potentially made it much more difficult for researchers to have their grants reinstated.
More UChicago Ph.D. Programs Will Pause Admissions
Aug 21, 2025 - The Arts and Humanities dean said “nearly all” faculty leaders preferred “a broader pause for the division.” Some social sciences programs also aren't accepting new students.
University of Oxford | Using AI to reclassify multiple sclerosis progression
Aug 20, 2025 - This model is based on the largest collection of clinical trial data (Novartis-Oxford MS dataset) from people living with MS.
UC Berkeley | A Summer of Collaboration at BIDS
Aug 21, 2025 - "Admiration for the people, for the work, and for the ways those two things intersect at UC Berkeley."
UVA SDS | Ph.D. Student Profile: Yuyang Cheng
Aug 19, 2025 - From Chengdu to Charlottesville, Ph.D. student Yuyang Cheng is advancing human-centered AI and trustworthy machine learning at UVA.
UChicago Data Night: Fostering Chicago’s Data Community
Aug 22, 2025 - The monthly series bridges research and practical applications between industry, community, academia, and the public sector.
Brown CCMB team publishes in Science on the evolutionary history of the MUC19 gene
Aug 22, 2025 - A team of researchers at the Center for Computational Molecular Biology published their recent findings in Science magazine.
University of Louisiana at Lafayette interim president announces 5% spending cut
Aug 20, 2025 - University leaders revealed plans to cut spending by 5% to address financial challenges.
Haverford College faces Education Department investigation into antisemitism
Aug 21, 2025 - The probe into the Pennsylvania liberal arts college is only the latest in a string from the Trump administration as it seeks to crack down on higher education.
UCLA consolidates IT, pauses faculty hiring as Trump administration seeks $1B payment
Aug 21, 2025 - The public institution is one of several facing cuts to federal research funding over allegations related to antisemitism.
Peer reviewers more likely to approve articles that cite their own work
Aug 21, 2025 - Preprint examines how citations can influence the review process.
RDS@Pitt 2024-2025 Annual Report
Aug 21, 2025 - By empowering a positive digital future, RDS@Pitt will enhance success, engagement, safety, accountability, and trust throughout society.
In a warning from inside the NSF, staff say science itself is under threat
Aug 19, 2025 - "We fight for employees as we fight for the mission of our agency in the same way," Dr. Jesus Soriano said.
First Penn, then Columbia, now Brown: Comparing Trump admin. deals across the Ivy League
Aug 21, 2025 - Higher education experts weigh in on the key differences between the White House’s agreements with Brown, Columbia and Penn.
A ‘Great Defection’ threatens to empty universities and colleges of top teaching talent
Aug 20, 2025 - Political attacks and other problems appear to be driving an exodus of Ph.D.s and faculty from higher education, threatening a diminished experience for undergraduates.
Marquette University welcomes class of 2029 with excitement and nerves
Aug 20, 2025 - Freshmen at Marquette University are moving into dorms, marking the start of their college journey with a mix of emotions and anticipation.
Johnston Community College Announces Record Enrollment
Aug 21, 2025 - JCC sees another semester of double-digit percentage increase in credit students
Supreme Court allows Trump's cuts to health research grants over DEI policies
Aug 21, 2025 - A federal judge had ruled that the more than $1 billion in cuts to research grants, like studies into HIV prevention, violated federal law.
95% of organizations got zero return on AI investment in MIT study
Aug 21, 2025 - Companies are investing tens of billions of dollars in generative AI with little to show for it.
Understanding Pedagogical Content Knowledge of Data Science Instructors
Aug 19, 2025 - Despite the absence of national guidelines, participants demonstrated notable overlap in foundational IDS content, though some instructors felt less confident with advanced or specialized topics.
Notre Dame and Johns Hopkins team up to bring digital privacy and AI literacy education to the Smithsonian
Aug 19, 2025 - The exhibit featured an interactive tool designed for children ages 6+ and was developed by researchers from the University of Notre Dame and Johns Hopkins University, as part of a multi-year NSF–funded project aimed at transforming how users and developers understand and engage with privacy.
Notre Dame | Four faculty teams awarded 2025 Poverty Research Packages
Aug 15, 2025 - The Notre Dame Poverty Initiative has announced a new round of multi-year investments that will support high-impact, poverty-related research projects led by Notre Dame faculty in multiple disciplines.
Dr. Sharad Sharma Named Inaugural Sinha Endowed Professor in Data Science
Aug 15, 2025 - Funded by a generous gift from Dr. Vikas Sinha and Mrs. Anuradha Sinha, this prestigious position supports transformative research and education at the intersection of data science and immersive technologies.
What counts as plagiarism? AI-generated papers pose new risks
Aug 20, 2025 - Researchers argue over whether ‘novel’ AI-generated works use others’ ideas without credit.
Government health datasets altered without documentation
Aug 19, 2025 - The study finds that nearly half of the examined federal health datasets were altered. In most, the term "gender" was replaced with "sex."
NIH director orders new review of grants in outline of top research priorities
Aug 15, 2025 - Many topics on Bhattacharya’s list are familiar, but order to re-evaluate grants draws concerns
State Department has revoked over 6,000 student visas this year
Aug 19, 2025 - A spokesperson said 200 to 300 of the revocations were over support for terrorism, a common Trump administration claim against international students.
A new model predicts how molecules will dissolve in different solvents
Aug 19, 2025 - This type of prediction could make it much easier to develop new ways to produce pharmaceuticals and other useful molecules.
UT Austin to Lead the Next Gen of AI
Aug 6, 2025 - The NSF has reaffirmed its confidence in UT Austin by awarding the NSF AI Institute for Foundations of Machine Learning (IFML) a second round of funding, making it one of only five institutes nationwide to receive renewed investment.