NYU Unveils Torch, the Most Powerful Supercomputer in NY
Oct 1, 2025 - Torch was recently ranked No. 40 on the Top Green 500, a global list of the most sustainable supercomputers in the world, thanks to its advanced liquid cooling system.
Higher Ed News
UL Lafayette cuts jobs, closes offices amid $25 million deficit
Oct 1, 2025 - The University of Louisiana at Lafayette is working to address a $25 million budget deficit, a shortfall that has resulted in six staff positions being eliminated and several offices shuttered.
Cleveland State University ‘permanently discontinuing’ 22 academic programs
Oct 1, 2025 - Cleveland State University is eliminating 22 academic programs and suspending several others.
NIH temporarily restores UC grants under court order
Oct 3, 2025 - But in court filings this week, the federal agency reported some difficulties identifying which of the researcher grants it canceled needed to be reinstated.
Tuskegee Partners With Amazon Web Services for AI Training
Oct 1, 2025 - Through the AWS Machine Learning University Educator Enablement Program, Tuskegee students will work with large language models and faculty will receive specific training for incorporating the coursework.
U-M Ann Arbor | High pollen count: The last straw effect on suicide risk
Sep 30, 2025 - Beyond the sneezing and itchy eyes, high pollen seasons are now linked to a significant increase in suicide risk.
Cornell University seeks funding after stop-order on tick research
Sep 30, 2025 - The lab is actively seeking alternative funding sources for the test, which would be a game changer for early detection and treatment of tick-borne diseases.
Washington University lays off over 300 employees
Oct 2, 2025 - The private St. Louis institution has also cut nearly 200 unfilled positions as it grapples with federal cuts, rising expenses and a heightened endowment tax.
New software tool aims to help scientists better analyze complex spatial data from tissues
Oct 1, 2025 - The tool is designed to work with spatial data from any platform and supports a broad range of analyses, including data integration across different types of measurements and resolutions.
CATNIP for chemists: New data-driven tool broadens access to greener chemistry
Oct 1, 2025 - University of Michigan and Carnegie Mellon University researchers have developed a new tool that makes greener chemistry more accessible.
JHU | 'Big-world data, small-town values'
Sep 30, 2025 - Community bonds and NIH funding have helped scientists at a Johns Hopkins research field center in Hagerstown, Maryland, collect some of the world's best population-based data on cardiovascular disease risk
MIT | Responding to the climate impact of generative AI
Sep 30, 2025 - MIT experts discuss strategies and innovations aimed at mitigating the amount of greenhouse gas emissions generated by the training, deployment, and use of AI systems, in the second in a two-part series on the environmental impacts of generative artificial intelligence.
William & Mary launches ChatGPT Edu pilot
Oct 1, 2025 - By integrating artificial intelligence tools, the university is positioning itself at the forefront of higher education innovation.
UNC Chapel Hill's lack of a standardized AI policy leaves students and faculty to their own devices
Sep 28, 2025 - In a 2024 survey from the Provost’s AI Committee, 94 percent of undergraduate respondents said that they understood the benefits and detriments AI can pose to learning.
Northeastern increased salaries, assets and employees in Fiscal Year 2024. Here’s a breakdown.
Sep 25, 2025 - For the third year in a row, Northeastern President Joseph E. Aoun’s salary has exceeded $2 million, making him the highest-paid university president in Massachusetts.
Vanderbilt's Amplify Generative AI Innovation Center and Data Science Institute launch Enterprise AI and Computing Innovation Studio
Sep 25, 2025 - The studio will help students solve real-world problems by collaborating on research-based projects in the field of AI.
Federal $100k H-1B visa fee prompts Northwestern faculty, student concerns over future international recruitment
Oct 1, 2025 - In 2025, USCIS approved 84 new employee H-1B visas and 51 renewals for NU, according to the department’s data. These numbers mirror previous years since 2017.
GW lays off 43 staff as FY2026 first quarter closes
Sep 30, 2025 - The layoffs, which officials disclosed to impacted staff earlier in the day, quash months of speculation over whether officials would cut personnel amid a yearslong structural deficit.
Federal government cuts roughly $3.5M for UC Berkeley languages, international institutes
Sep 30, 2025 - The federal government has cut roughly $3.5 million for this academic year, the final year of UC Berkeley’s grants for Title VI of the Higher Education Act of 1965
Does AI interpret colors like we do?
Sep 24, 2025 - Stanford researchers explored how humans and generative AI interpret color. What they found wasn’t so black and white.
Developing Strategies to Increase Capacity in AI Education
Sep 26, 2025 - CRA has compiled and organized a list of resources that participant experts mentioned throughout this study. These resources contribute to a frequent request heard during the roundtables: a central repository of AI education resources for institutions to freely use across higher education.
UMass Students Showcase AI Tools Built for State Agencies
Sep 30, 2025 - Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey invited University of Massachusetts, Amherst students to create AI tools to assist public agencies. The students traveled to Boston last week to share their work.
HHS moves to cut Harvard off from all federal grants and contracts
Oct 1, 2025 - The agency's Office for Civil Rights on Monday recommended blocking the university's access to the funding to protect the public interest.
Denison student develops a taste for data visualizatio
Sep 15, 2025 - Internship with The Kroger Co. pays off with connections, career focus.
40 US colleges defeat antitrust lawsuit over financial aid
Sep 26, 2025 - Forty elite private U.S. universities have convinced a U.S. judge to dismiss a lawsuit that accused them of conspiring to overcharge for tuition by including the assets of noncustodial parents in determining financial aid.
Texas Tech orders colleges to align instruction with Trump administration’s gender views
Sep 29, 2025 - The directive from Chancellor Tedd Mitchell immediately drew backlash from free speech advocates, with one attorney describing it as “obvious censorship.”
Machine Learning for Safety-Critical Applications: Opportunities, Challenges, and a Research Agenda
Sep 30, 2025 - More research, testing, and evaluation is needed to ensure these technologies can be safely integrated for safety-critical applications.
Adversarial natural language processing: overview, challenges, and policy implications
Sep 22, 2025 - The researchers describe major policy implications, identify key trends, and suggest future directions, such as the use of Bayesian methods to improve the security and robustness of NLP systems.
No lectures, exams, essays: inside a twenty-first-century university
Sep 24, 2025 - Some innovative higher-education institutions are reimagining pedagogy by prioritizing local needs over research and international student recruitment. Anna McKie visits one of them.
Why AI needs social science
Sep 29, 2025 - AI is about humans, that's why it needs to be shaped not just by computer science, but by social science.