NJIT, TekStream Launch Student-Run Cybersecurity Center
Jun 11, 2025 - The New Jersey Institute of Technology's Security Operations Center will allow students to gain professional experience while monitoring and addressing cybersecurity threats with help from a cybersecurity firm.
Northwestern freezes hiring and cuts budgets to combat ‘increasing strain’ on finances
Jun 11, 2025 - The highly selective university faces funding threats from the Trump administration along with rising costs and proposed policy changes.
Statement for the Record: The Federal Government in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Jun 5, 2025 - Data & Society's statement for the record at a hearing before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on the federal government in the age of artificial intelligence.
Who Is Supporting Harvard in Its Lawsuit To Keep Federal Research Funding?
Jun 11, 2025 - Dozens of outside groups — including activists, Boston-area hospitals, and former federal officials — submitted amici briefs backing Harvard in its lawsuit against the Trump administration.
When do girls fall behind in maths? Gigantic study pinpoints the moment
Jun 11, 2025 - Analysis of almost three million children captures when ‘mathematical gender gap’ first emerges and could help focus efforts to stop girls from falling behind.
Oxford Statistics at the forefront of AI-driven drug discovery
Jun 10, 2025 - Charlotte Deane from the Dept. of Statistics has been announced as a senior principal investigator on a £8 million government-backed consortium that will create the world's largest dataset for AI-driven drug discovery.
NIH employees publish ‘Bethesda Declaration’ in dissent of Trump administration policies
Jun 9, 2025 - Staffers at the US National Institutes of Health published a letter of dissent, taking issue with what they see as the politicization of research and destruction of scientific progress under the Trump administration.
New On-Campus Partnership Between Caltech and Meta Focuses Initially on Smart Wearables
Jun 9, 2025 - The collaboration establishes a new on-campus space where Meta employees can interact with Caltech students and researchers while also providing support for innovative projects related to materials, sensing, and wearable technologies.
UMinnesota proposes tuition hikes across all campuses, 7% cut to academic programs
Jun 9, 2025 - The University of Minnesota is proposing tuition hikes of up to 7.5% and cuts to academic programs for the next fiscal year as it navigates what it calls "unprecedented challenges facing higher education."
Ohio State University is requiring every student to use AI in class to become ‘AI fluent’
Jun 10, 2025 - The university's "AI Fluency" initiative aims to ensure all students graduate equipped to apply AI tools and applications in their fields.
Williams College stops accepting federal grants, opposing new policy
Jun 10, 2025 -As some universities scramble to cope with the federal government's funding cuts, a Western Massachusetts college has declined the grants.
NAS President Says U.S. Science Is Facing ‘Pessimistic’ Future, Urges Changes to Regain Leadership in Science
Jun 9, 2025 - Marcia McNutt warned of a “pessimistic future” for U.S. science, from federal budget cuts to a burdensome regulatory environment to a loss of international talent, and proposed a range of actions to strengthen the research enterprise.
Jun 7, 2025 - OpenAI, the firm that helped spark chatbot cheating, wants to embed A.I. in every facet of college. First up: 460,000 students at Cal State.
Ilya Sutskever, a leader in AI and its responsible development, receives UToronto honorary degree
Jun 6, 2025 - Few people have been as influential in shaping the artificial intelligence landscape – and conversations around the technology’s responsible use – as Ilya Sutskever.
UCLA Professors express concern over research, programs following federal funding cuts
Jun 8, 2025 - The Trump administration has revoked federal grants and contracts from six American universities due to their alleged failure to resolve antisemitism on campus.