Trump threatens Harvard's tax-exempt status after freezing $2bn funding
Apr. 15, 2025 - Universities, as well as many charities and religious groups, are exempted from paying federal income taxes.
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UCSB | Kyle Lee & J. Prescott: NSF GRFP Fellowships
Apr. 15, 2025 - NSF Graduate Research Fellows (GRFP) will receive three years of financial support, totaling nearly $150,000, in the form of an annual stipend, tuition, and fees
Trump throws wrench into NSF’s support for new Texas supercomputer | …
Apr. 15, 2025 - If Trump prevails in a spending showdown with Congress, it could delay or even end construction of Horizon, a $520 million supercomputer at the University of Texas (UT) at Austin.
'Five-alarm fire': Read the Trump proposal that could decimate climate research
Apr. 15, 2025 - NOAA grants provide funding to nine cooperative institutions in California. Several branches of the agency could lose hundreds of millions of dollars.
What proposed NASA budget cuts could mean for current projects
Apr. 15, 2025 - The cuts may mean that projects that don’t have to do with getting humans to the Moon and Mars will come to an end.
2 Duke undergraduates named prestigious Goldwater Scholars for excellence in STEM
Apr. 15, 2025 - Junior Deven Gupta and sophomore Paul Rosu were selected as Goldwater Scholars out of a pool of over 1350 applicants.
Tufts issues declaration supporting lawsuit against the Department of Energy’s new rate cap policy
Apr. 15, 2025 - Tufts issued a declaration supporting a lawsuit filed by several universities against the Department of Energy over its decision to implement a 15% cap on indirect costs for existing and future research grants to universities and colleges.
Vanderbilt's Fourth annual Summit on Modern Conflict and Emerging Threats focuses on AI, geopolitics
Apr. 15, 2025 - Hosted by Vanderbilt’s Institute of National Security for the first time, the summit featured over 20 panelists across intelligence, military and business professions.
Nine students with MIT ties have visas revoked
Apr. 14, 2025 - One of the affected individuals has filed a suit against the federal government, with an independent counsel representing the student.
UPenn | Exploring the governance of artificial intelligence
Apr. 11, 2025 - Penn researchers from across the University gathered for an in-depth discussion of key issues surrounding the governance of AI.
2030 Job Market Forecast: The Skills And Roles You’ll Need
Apr. 14, 2025 - “To prepare for careers that don’t yet exist, individuals must nurture flexibility, rapid adaptability and insatiable curiosity,” says Frederic Miskawi, vice president at CGI, an IT and business consulting firm.
UvA DSC Member Spotlight: Stefanie Boss
Apr. 15, 2025 - Stefanie Boss is a PhD Candidate at the Institute for Information Law and the Informatics Institute.
UCSD SDSC's Rick Wagner Takes a Leading Role in Project Jupyter
Apr. 14, 2025 - Jupyter is a cornerstone of UC San Diego’s educational and research infrastructure, supporting tens of thousands of students annually across hundreds of classes.
Boston University Ramps Up Strategy on AI
Apr. 10, 2025 - The Artificial Intelligence Development Accelerator (AIDA) for Academic and Administrative Excellence is an initiative designed to coalesce the long-standing and widespread investment in—and experimentation with—AI at BU.
BU CDS Assistant Professor Joshua Peterson Merges AI and Behavioral Science
Apr. 14, 2025 - The study finds that LLMs tend to assume people behave more rationally than they actually do.
UCSD Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute | Making Everyday AI Safe and Trustworthy
Apr. 14, 2025 - Weng’s project aims to develop a scalable, automated framework that helps people understand how AI make decisions at the model-level.
UToronto DSI-Supported Research Team Links EV Sales to Childhood Asthma Reduction
Apr. 10, 2025 - As Electric Vehicles (EVs) have become a more familiar sight on our streets and highways, one may wonder – has there been a corresponding effect on public health from reduced traffic pollution?
What are colleges’ legal options when threatened with federal funding cuts?
Apr. 14, 2025 - Higher education experts said colleges could work together or lean on their associations if they take up a legal fight against the Trump administration.
Trump administration freezes $2.2 billion in grants to Harvard over campus activism
Apr. 14, 2025 - The institution says Monday it won’t comply with a list of demands from the Trump administration as part of its campaign against antisemitism.
Students react to JMU dissolving its division of diversity, equity and inclusion
Apr. 13, 2025 - Universities throughout the United States are cracking down on DEI programs, and James Madison University is now one of the latest schools to follow suit.
Webmaster told to remove DEI pages from CWRU site. She refused
Apr. 14, 2025 - A Case Western Reserve University webmaster said she refused to pull pages regarding diversity, equity and inclusion scholarships.
UConn says visas were revoked for 13 international members of school community
Apr. 14, 2025 - The university has around 3,450 international students, most of whom are based at the Storrs campus.
Five Binghamton University student visas revoked amid federal crackdown
Apr. 14, 2025 - Binghamton University reported that five of its students are among the 21 SUNY students whose visa status has changed since April 9.
UNC-CH computer science department looks to the future as it celebrates 60th anniversary
Apr. 14, 2025 - Faculty and students of UNC computer science share insights into the department as it reaches its 60th year of existence.
9 at UTennessee have had their immigration status changed
Apr. 14, 2025 - Five more students are now at risk for deportation, following an announcement from the University of Tennessee.
How do Duke’s admissions statistics for the Class of 2029 compare to peer institutions?
Apr. 14, 2025 - Duke’s acceptance statistics compared with 14 peer institutions in the Ivy+ grouping.
MIT | Further responses to federal actions
Apr. 14, 2025 - MIT joined with several peer schools and higher ed associations to oppose the Department of Energy's (DOE) 15% on indirect costs similar to that from NIH.
Harvard Will Fight Trump’s Demands | News | The Harvard Crimson
Apr. 14, 2025 - Harvard will not comply with the Trump administration’s demands to dismantle its diversity programming and limit student protests in exchange for its federal funding.
Congress requests documents from Princeton University in price-fixing investigation
Apr. 14, 2025 - The letter requested wide-ranging documents related to University admissions, financial aid, and communications between University administrators and college application-assistance websites.
February’s 10% spending reduction foreshadowed life under a federal funding freeze, faculty say
Apr. 14, 2025 - As Northwestern faculty grapple with the implications of a federal funding freeze, they are already living with the effects of a 10% non-personnel spending reduction enacted by the University in February.