Fond Farewell to Two DSI Faculty: Roberta DeVito and Shekhar Pradhan
Jun 16, 2025 - DSI Faculty Roberta De Vito and Shekhar Pradhan will be leaving Brown at the end of the month after years of service to the Data Science Institute and Brown.
Higher Ed News
State Dept. restarts student visa interviews with tougher social media rules
Jun 18, 2025 - Foreign nationals who seek visas to study in the United States will have to make social media posts public to be scrutinized for hostility toward the U.S.
Here’s the next cohort of the Google.org Accelerator: Generative AI
Jun 9, 2025 - Meet the 20 organizations using generative AI to address tough societal issues.
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.
NIH ruling is latest blow to RFK Jr.'s agenda
Jun 17, 2025 - A federal judge's ruling could allow researchers to restart work on subjects including cancer, diabetes, Alzheimer's and HIV.
Tennessee State raises tuition 6% amid budget stabilization effort
Jun 16, 2025 - Even with the tuition hike, the public historically Black institution faces a nearly $39 million shortfall.
Kids are ditching traditional college for career tech programs. Parents are concerned.
Jun 15, 2025 - There's an emerging generational divide on attending college after high school.
Potential Pell Grant changes could unfairly impact Native college students
Jun 15, 2025 - Native leaders say a Congressional proposal to increase credit hour requirements and reduce the maximum amounts of Pell Grants could disproportionately affect Native students
University of Nebraska looks to cut another $20M from its budget
Jun 13, 2025 - Amid state and federal funding challenges, the public Midwestern institution has already cut tens of millions of dollars in spending in recent years.
Education Department reinstates some research and data activities
Jun 16, 2025 - Trump administration lawyers admit some DOGE cuts violated congressional statutes
NIH documents reveal inconsistencies in grant terminations as agency reviews 3200 more
Jun 13, 2025 - Evidence of agency’s uneven guidance to employees and role of DOGE could play into legal case against cuts
How you breathe is like a fingerprint that can identify you
Jun 12, 2025 - An algorithm could identify people from their breath patterns with 96.8% accuracy.
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.
Meet the MIT engineer who invented an AI-powered way to restore art
Jun 11, 2025 - The new method could be 70 times faster than repairing painting by hand.
Quantum physicists unveil most ‘trustworthy’ random-number generator yet
Jun 11, 2025 - The system produces strings of random bits in a process that is fully traceable.
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.
Utah Opens Public Comment on Math Standards That Put Data Science Front and Center
Jun 9, 2025 - Utah launched a 90-day public comment on new K–12 math standards emphasizing data science, integrated math, and real-world relevance.
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.
Open-access revolution is squeezing scientific societies’ budgets, survey shows
Jun 9, 2025 - Decline in journal revenues puts scholarships, advocacy, and other activities at risk.
Data competitions provide invaluable opportunities for Virginia Tech undergraduates
Jun 9, 2025 - These competitions provide students the opportunity to work on open-ended real-world problems.
Advanced AI suffers ‘complete accuracy collapse’ in face of complex problems, study finds
Jun 9, 2025 - Apple paper raises doubts about race to reach stage of AI at which it matches human intelligence.
Teachers can use AI to save time on marking, new guidance says
Jun 10, 2025 - For the first time teachers in England are receiving guidelines on how they should and shouldn't use AI.
How scammers are using AI to steal college financial aid
Jun 10, 2025 - Financial aid fraud is exploding, thanks to the rise of artificial intelligence.
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.
China shuts down AI tools during nationwide college exams
Jun 9, 2025 - New age problems require new age solutions.
UC Irvine to lead use of AI in solving grand challenges below Earth's surface
Jun 9, 2025 - UC Office of the President-funded project involves 5 UC campuses and 2 national labs
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.