How Professors Are Leveraging 7 AI Tools in the Classroom
Jul 29, 2025 - Common AI tools, their strengths and drawbacks, and how professors are utilizing them.
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UTSA surpasses half-billion-dollar campaign goal two years ahead of original timeline, positioning the university for next phase of growth
Aug 5, 2025 - UTSA announced that it has exceeded the university’s goal of raising more than $500 million through its largest fundraising effort in university history, Be Bold: A Campaign for Our Future.
Penn State Master of AI grad begins ‘dream job’ in space industry as AI research engineer
Jul 21, 2025 - For his master's degree in AI, Nicholas Gahman explored new frontiers in technology, such as integrating machine learning into cybersecurity as part of his capstone project.
Travelers to higher-risk areas required to seek pre-approval from U-M
Aug 5, 2025 - Countries deemed higher risk that require pre-approval include Afghanistan, Belarus, Burundi, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia (Tigray region only), Haiti, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, Libya, Mali, Myanmar, Niger, Nigeria (Borno, Yobe, Bauchi, Gombe, Kaduna, Kano, Katsina, Zamfara, and northern Adamawa states only), North Korea, Pakistan, Palestinian Territories, Russia, Somalia, South Sudan, Syria, Ukraine, and Yemen.
Emory University sets lobbying record as grant terminations hit $92 million
Aug 2, 2025 - Emory University has spent over $500,000 on lobbying the federal government from April to June.
UC ‘to engage’ in talks with federal administration amid UCLA $584 million loss - Daily Bruin
Aug 6, 2025 - The UC has agreed “to engage in dialogue with the federal administration” about its $584 million cut in research grants to UCLA.
Helping data storage keep up with the AI revolution
Aug 4, 2025 - Cloudian, co-founded by MIT alumnus Michael Tso, has created a storage system to help businesses feed data-hungry AI models and agents at scale.
Duke's Voluntary separation packages saw 64% acceptance rate, questions over shared governance remain
Aug 5, 2025 - Provost Alec Gallimore noted that the impact of lost faculty and staff extends beyond those who are leaving the University, with many of those remaining likely experiencing “survivor’s guilt” and “continued uncertainty.”
Explainer: How student loans are changing under the ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’
Aug 6, 2025 - The new law will impact roughly 30% of Duke students who take out loans and a host of alumni in the process of paying off their own loans.
After months of avoiding confrontation, Duke became Trump’s next target
Aug 4, 2025 - Duke now faces two federal investigations and frozen funds, drawing calls of "extortion" and "resistance."
15 people detained by ICE on Harrison Street, Princeton officials say
Jul 25, 2025 - Immigration officials had initially only been in pursuit of a single person.
UPenn's Faculty Senate released their annual reports on admissions, faculty pay. Here's what to know
Aug 4, 2025 - The 20-page report includes recommendations to improve the experiences of Penn students and faculty.
UC Berkeley Campus researchers left uncertain amid federal funding cuts
Jul 31, 2025 - Amid ongoing litigation over grant terminations and looming potential cuts for federal science agencies in fiscal year 2026, students and professors across campus are adjusting their expectations and plans.
Is data advancing science at the cost of deeper insight?
Aug 4, 2025 - Neuroscientist Grace Huckins argues that while powerful AI tools and vast datasets are driving practical advances, they may not be deepening our understanding of the universe.
Brown University braces for layoffs despite agreement with Trump administration
Aug 5, 2025 - University administrators announced various strategies intended to help Brown manage a $30 million impact from federal actions.
Where is all the NIH data? A Landscape Analysis of the 150 NIH Repositories and the Path Beyond the Mountains
Jul 31, 2025 - 'Less is more' when establishing repositories that help scientists easily find and securely access distinct data types for their research. This level of cross architecture coordination and federation will require support from both research grantors and recipients.
Open-Access Publishing in a Global Context
Aug 6, 2025 - The number and share of Open-access (OA) articles has grown since 2003 from an infrequent type of peer-reviewed publication to almost half of global publications in 2022.
Trump’s Deal-Making With Other Elite Schools Scrambles Harvard Negotiations
Aug 4, 2025 - The university was open to spending $500 million, but a $50 million settlement with Brown has prompted new debates in Cambridge.
University ‘awaiting details’ on federal awards reinstatement, EVP for research says
Aug 3, 2025 - Executive VP for Research Jeannette Wing announced that the University is still “awaiting details on how the federal government will operationalize reinstatement of awards and the above-referenced renewals."
Higher ed groups ask Supreme Court to preserve lower court order to restore NIH grants
Aug 5, 2025 - The Trump administration has asked the high court to pause the June ruling against the National Institutes of Health’s mass award cancellations.
University of Nebraska-Lincoln to slash $27.5M from budget
Aug 5, 2025 - The state’s flagship could eliminate academic programs and offer voluntary separation packages to make the cuts, its chancellor said.
Georgetown Formal Response — MDI’s Response to NSF Request for Information on Key Technology Areas for TIP
Jul 31, 2025 - The Massive Data Institute and the Department of Computer at Georgetown University offered comments in response to the NSF’s Request for Information on Key Technology Focus Areas for TIP
UTSA School of Data Science to transition into new research center
Aug 1, 2025 - A planned new UTSA Center for Data Science is set to continue building on the school’s legacy, with the official transition taking effect on Sept. 1.
Fifth Annual UC Irvine ICS Project Expo Continues to Grow ‘Bigger and Better’
Aug 1 ,2025 - What made the UC Irvine Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences ICS Project Expo unique in 2025?
Emory | AI reveals unexpected new physics in dusty plasma
Jul 30, 2025 - Physicists used AI to discover new natural laws governing dusty plasma, found everywhere from Saturn’s rings to the Earth’s ionosphere.
MTSU | 2025-26 Data Science Student Steve and Kathy Anderson Scholarship Winners
Aug 1, 2025 - This highly competitive scholarship recognizes outstanding students in the MTSU Data Science program who have demonstrated exceptional academic achievement, passion for data science, and a commitment to making a meaningful impact here at MTSU.
Speeding up research at Princeton’s annual Open Hackathon
Jul 28, 2025 - From June 10-13, Princeton hosted its seventh Open Hackathon, bringing together nine teams of participants from campus and off-campus research groups to collaborate both in-person and virtually.
Research from NJIT and Yale Leads to Trio of Computing Innovations
Jul 29, 2025 -NJIT Distinguished Professor David Bader said the inspiration for a joint $540,000 National Science Foundation grant, “Scalable Algorithmic and Software Foundations for Subgraph Counting and Enumeration," is that existing pattern-finding science is struggling to keep pace with modern data sets.
UC San Diego HDSI Assistant Professor Hao Zhang Receives Google Junior Faculty Award
Jul 30, 2025 - Hao Zhang of the University of California San Diego has received an inaugural 2025 Google ML and Systems Junior Faculty Award in recognition of the significance and promise of his work in machine learning, systems, and LLMs.
U-M Ann Arbor | Twenty-two papers by CSE researchers at ACL 2025
Aug 1, 2025 - CSE authors are presenting new research in computational linguistics on topics ranging from cross-species acoustic identification to multilingual moral reasoning.