BC’s Most Popular Majors and Minors: Finance Retains the Top Spot
Apr. 25, 2025 - For the third consecutive year, finance is the most popular major at Boston College.
Higher Ed News
When it comes to reading the room, humans are still better than AI
Apr. 24, 2025 - Hopkins research shows AI models fall short in predicting social interactions, a skill critical for systems to navigate the real world.
NSF, DOE funding changes impact Case Western Reserve University
Apr. 25, 2025 - President Eric Kaler sent a campus-wide email updating the Case Western Reserve University community on federal research funding and its effect on CWRU research operations.
Five research grants at Pitt are canceled, the highest number in Pennsylvania
Apr. 25, 2025 - The National Science Foundation has canceled 17 grants worth $7.3 million to Pennsylvania institutions of higher education.
The Guardian view on Trump v universities: essential institutions must defend themselves
Apr. 25, 2025 - Editorial: Harvard is leading the pushback because it can afford to fight. Others are realising that they can’t afford not to
A blandly titled law from 1946 may play a key role in Harvard’s lawsuit against the Trump administration
Apr. 25, 2025 - Harvard claims Trump’s executive branch isn’t following federal rules for changing key government policies.
Trump administration reverses abrupt terminations of foreign students’ US visa registrations
Apr. 25, 2025 - DOJ announced the reversal in federal court after weeks of intense scrutiny by courts and dozens of restraining orders issued by judges.
Women Still Underrepresented in STEM Despite Job Demand
Apr. 23, 2025 - More than one million American women were working in STEM occupations in 2023, only representing 26 percent of the STEM workforce.
Oregon Teams With Nvidia for $10M AI Program on College Campuses
Apr. 24, 2025 - Money from the Oregon CHIPS Act, a package of legislation from 2023, will help Oregon colleges and universities hire artificial intelligence faculty and technical experts.
University of Michigan, Google Launch Agentic AI for TAs
Apr. 23, 2025 - The university's pilot program, which will use virtual teaching assistants to explain course concepts to students and guide them through problems, will contribute to a study on virtual TAs working across 26 campuses.
CRA | NSF Director, Sethuraman Panchanathan, Resigns
Apr. 24, 2025 - According to Science, the President’s budget request for NSF is likely to entail, “a 55% cut to the agency’s $9 billion budget next year and fire half its 1,700-person staff.” This news had not previously been reported.
NSF Statement by Director Sethuraman Panchanathan on his departure
Apr. 24, 2025 - ... "I believe I have done all I can to advance the critical mission of the agency and feel that it is time for me to pass the baton to new leadership." ...
Dartmouth only Ivy to abstain from signing letter against Trump administration funding cuts
Apr. 23, 2025 - A College spokesperson said that the President “does not believe that signing open form letters like this one is an effective way to defend Dartmouth’s mission.”
A Nature analysis signals the beginnings of a US science brain drain
Apr. 22, 2025 - Data from the Nature show that US scientists submitted 32% more applications for jobs abroad between January and March 2025 than during the same period in 2024.
‘The gatekeepers’: Trump’s action on accreditation sparks concerns over government intrusion
Apr. 24, 2025 - The president signed a directive seeking to punish accreditors for diversity criteria while easing the path for new quality-assurance bodies.
Federal judges deal major blow to Education Department’s anti-DEI guidance
Apr. 24, 2025 - The agency didn’t follow the proper procedures when it issued sweeping guidance threatening federal funding in February, one court ruled.
Federal judges deal major blow to Education Department’s anti-DEI guidance
Apr. 24, 2025 - The Trump administration's efforts to withhold funds from schools "raise the specter of a public 'witch hunt,'" one ruling said.
Trump targets AI, school discipline in new executive orders
Apr. 23, 2025 - In addition to advancing AI in schools, the orders call for a review of discipline guidance based on “discriminatory and unlawful ‘equity’ ideology.”
UCSD SDSC Participates in HPC Education Project to Produce New Cyber Training Catalog
Apr. 24, 2025 - SDSC's Mary Thomas has been participating in a U.S. multi-institutional initiative that streamlines discovery and collaboration through an innovative cyber training catalog.
UMass Amherst | Luna Dziewietin Receives Outstanding Undergraduate Achievement Award
Apr. 22, 2025 - Luna, a fourth-year undergraduate majoring in Informatics & Social Thought in Political Economy major and member of the DS4CG 2024 team, wins the Outstanding Undergraduate Achievement Award!
TAMU TAMIDS Travel Grant Program for Students
Apr. 23, 2025 - The Texas A&M Institute of Data Science (TAMIDS) Student Travel Grant Program supports undergraduate and graduate students to attend and talk at conferences in any domain of Data Science, AI, and Machine Learning.
UWisconsin DSI Special Seminar with Dr. Talitha Washington
Apr. 23, 2025 - Join the Data Science Institute on May 16 for a seminar with Dr. Talitha Washington, Howard University.
UUtah SCI Marks One of Its Biggest Presences at Top Conference on Human-Computer Interaction
Apr. 21, 2025 - SCI contributions include four papers, one of which won an honorable mention award, along with a software course and a paper in “alt.chi,” a forum for boundary-pushing research.
UNC-CH & USFQ Partnering to Understand how AI is Transforming Science
Apr. 15, 2025 - A group of UNC – Chapel Hill researchers connected with a team from its strategic partner, Universidad San Francisco de Quito (USFQ), to hold a workshop.
The University of Chicago Data Science Institute and Google Partner on Cutting-Edge AI and Security Research
Apr. 22, 2025 - This partnership brings together leading experts from both academia and industry to drive meaningful advancements that will enhance user protection, improve AI-driven technologies, and shape the future of responsible data science.
Five Penn Faculty Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Apr. 24, 2025 - They are joining the nearly 250 new members honored in 2025, recognized for their excellence, innovation, leadership, and broad array of accomplishments.
Protecting continued progress in data science
Apr. 23, 2025 - We are in an extraordinary and perilous moment that demands a steadfast response.
The Brown CNTR celebrates its one-year-anniversary and launches the Socially Responsible Computing Handbook.
Apr. 24, 2025 - The horizon is wide open for Brown’s young and hungry Center for Technological Responsibility, Re-imagination, and Redesign (CNTR).
NOAA Notice of Changes
Apr. 22, 2025 - Retiring datasets
International students stripped of legal status in the US are piling up wins in court
Apr. 23, 2025 - Some international students in the U.S. who have had their legal status terminated in recent weeks have found a measure of success in court, with federal judges around the country issuing orders to restore students’ status at least temporarily.