Pitt loses another $1 million research grant: 'These letters are driving fear'
Apr. 28, 2025 - The three-year research project aimed to help 1,500 middle school students become computer literate.
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If NSF Snoozes, Then TACC’s “Horizon” Supercomputer Loses
Apr. 30, 2025 - It is a tumultuous time for any agency in the US government or any company or organization that depends on the US government for a sizable portion of its.
Mohsen Mahdawi — the Columbia student arrested at his citizenship appointment — speaks
Apr. 30, 2025 - Speaking to NPR in his first media interview since his detention, lawful permanent U.S. resident Mohsen Mahdawi finds peace in meditation and hopes "America will fulfill its promise."
Will US science survive Trump 2.0?
Apr. 29, 2025 - The White House is expected to propose a budget for 2026 that would slash investments in science across the federal government.
University of Pennsylvania violated Title IX, Education Department charges
Apr. 28, 2025 - The agency has been threatening education institutions with the loss of federal funding if they allow transgender athletes to compete in women’s sports.
Gen Z says AI has made their college degrees irrelevant
Apr. 29, 2025 - New-to-market job seekers are feeling the effects of fervent AI adoption more acutely than any other generation, according to Indeed.
MIT Working Group on Scholarly Content and Generative AI
Apr. 28, 2025 - MIT announced a Working Group on Scholarly Content and Generative AI that will advise the Institute on best practices for community members and units using scholarly content to train generative AI (GenAI) models.
Johns Hopkins announces new research investments to help those affected by federal policy changes
Apr. 28, 2025 - Wide-ranging support targets faculty, staff, and students whose research activities have been affected by unexpected grant terminations, delays, or other interruptions
Immigration status restored for all affected NYU students
Apr. 28, 2025 - The federal government reactivated immigration statuses for all NYU students affected by the Trump administration’s crackdown on noncitizens.
Harvard Renames Diversity Office As Trump Demands Dismantling of DEI
Apr. 28, 2025 - Harvard will immediately rename its Office of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging to “Community and Campus Life."
Wisconsin joins lawsuit challenging cuts to federal education funding over DEI
Apr. 28, 2025 - Wisconsin and 18 other states filed a lawsuit Friday challenging the Trump administration’s threats to cut funding for school districts that do not end diversity, equity and inclusion programs.
Immigration status records restored for four Yale students
Apr. 27, 2025 - The federal government reactivated the visitor status records of all four Yale students whose records were previously terminated in a Department of Homeland Security database.
Immigration records for Brown students, recent grads reinstated
Apr. 28, 2025 - The students impacted by the visa revocations earlier this month had their status reactivated on Saturday.
UWisconsin-Madison Update on SEVIS terminations
Apr. 28, 2025 - UW-Madison can report that as of April 26, all 27 of its international students and alumni affected by SEVIS record terminations have been returned to active status.
The Hottest AI Job of 2023 Is Already Obsolete
Apr. 25, 2025 - The role is basically obsolete thanks to the breakneck speed of AI development and companies’ own maturity in terms of understanding how to use the technology.
Hundreds more NSF grants terminated after agency director resigns
Apr. 25, 2025 - Sethuraman Panchanathan abruptly leaves helm of US funding agency after Elon Musk’s DOGE arrives.
Data Rescue Project | ERICA to the Rescue!
Apr. 28, 2025 - Several volunteers and partners of the Data Rescue Project (DRP) have been working tirelessly for the last few weeks to back up the ERIC catalog and full-text PDFs.
UPenn engineers first to train AI at lightspeed
Apr. 25, 2025 - Penn engineers have developed the first photonic chip that reshapes how light behaves to carry out the nonlinear mathematics at the heart of modern AI while reducing energy use.
Teaching Gandhi in a Texas Detention Center
Apr. 23, 2025 - A visit to the ICE facility housing the Georgetown postdoctoral fellow Badar Khan Suri, whose case parallels those of Mahmoud Khalil and Rumeysa Ozturk
Cal opens $110M engineering center, plans to auction off West Berkeley admin building
Apr. 25, 2025 - UC Berkeley opened the Grimes Engineering Center, a $110 million project that is a 35,500-square-foot expansion of the former Bechtel Engineering Center.
Big Ten faculties ask their administrations to sign a joint defense pact against Trump
Apr. 25, 2025 - The potential pact would mark an escalation in resistance from universities to President Trump's push for them to follow his agenda.
How the Harvard Undergraduate Association Spends Half a Million Dollars a Year
Apr. 25, 2025 - More than 400 student clubs apply for funding from the HUA at the start of each semester, and the HUA divides around half a million dollars, among them.
Northwestern to receive over $220 million from foreign contracts, gifts made since 2020
Apr. 25, 2025 - Contributions have been made since 2020 amid deepening woes over the Trump administration’s crackdown on foreign funding at universities.
Three Penn affiliates’ visas reinstated amid federal policy reversal
Apr. 25, 2025 - The reactivations come as the Trump administration walked back its cancellation of over 1,500 student visas nationwide on April 25.
1,433 students sign letter urging Yale to publicly resist Trump
Apr. 25, 2025 - Co-authored with the YCC and GSA, the letter calls on the University to defend academic freedom, institutional autonomy and the safety of students.
New Yale “America at 250” class tops fall 2025 enrollment, economics courses remain high in demand
Apr. 25, 2025 - Early enrollment numbers for the upcoming fall semester showed “America at 250” and “Intermediate Macroeconomics” taking the top spots.
Research Funding at Brown
Apr. 25, 2025 - The Herald’s data desk dove into federal and institutional data to understand how research is funded at Brown.
Novel course at Yale translates data from the natural world into art
Apr. 24, 2025 - In a new course, Yale students are using AI technologies to transform natural phenomena into artistic performances.
Three weeks after Trump cut Princeton’s funding, no demands have been publicly issued. Here’s what we know.
Apr. 25, 2025 - Princeton has still yet to receive any demands, yet the $210 million in federal funding paused on April 1 remains frozen.
Harvard Management Company Plans $1 Billion Sale of Private Equity Stakes
Apr. 25, 2025 - Harvard Management Company is planning to sell nearly $1 billion of private equity fund stakes, liquidating nearly 5 percent of its private equity portfolio amid mounting threats to the University’s finances by its critics in Washington.