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UMichigan-Ann Arbor | Federal research funding fuels innovation, economic growth

Apr. 9, 2025 - Federal grants awarded to University of Michigan researchers help to drive innovation and economic growth, supporting thousands of jobs and generating millions in research-related spending across the United States.

#funding #University of Michigan-Ann Arbor #NSF #NIH #economy #research #innovation

UMichigan-Ann Arbor | Federal research funding fuels innovation, economic growth

Several Penn State international students have visas revoked

Apr. 7, 2025 - Several Penn State international students have visas revoked, according to a letter sent out by Interim Vice Provost of Penn State Global Sabine Klahr.

#Penn State #Trump #DHS

Several Penn State international students have visas revoked

Could LLMs help design our next medicines and materials?

Apr. 9, 2025 - A new multimodal tool combines a LLM with powerful graph-based AI models to efficiently find new, synthesizable molecules with desired properties, based on a user’s queries in plain language.

#MIT #LLM #AI #biomedical

Could LLMs help design our next medicines and materials?

Trump administration terminates six UNC-CH international student visas

Apr. 9, 2025 - “ISSS is available to advise, answer questions and provide resources to all university-sponsored international students and scholars,” Media Relations wrote.

#UNC Chapel Hill #Trump #DHS

Trump administration terminates six UNC-CH international student visas

UW Information School ties for 1st in US News & World Report Best Graduate Schools ranking

Apr. 7, 2025 - The University of Washington’s graduate and professional degree programs were widely recognized as among the best in the nation.

#University of Washington #graduate #higher ed

UW Information School ties for 1st in US News & World Report Best Graduate Schools ranking

Department of Commerce announces the end of $4 million in funding of climate risk projects at Princeton

Apr. 9, 2025 - The Department of Commerce cut $4 million to Princeton for three climate-related projects, which it said were actively working against Trump administration objectives.

#environment #Department of Commerce #Princeton #Trump

Department of Commerce announces the end of $4 million in funding of climate risk projects at Princeton

Northwestern faculty navigate attacks on speech, research

Apr. 9, 2025 - Northwestern faculty are grappling with the federal government’s challenges to academic freedom and free speech.

#Northwestern #DEI #Trump

Northwestern faculty navigate attacks on speech, research

Wharton professor cited in Accenture report on organizational structures in age of generative AI

Apr. 9, 2025 - The report introduced AI as representing a "fundamentally different way of working" and drew on the company's "firsthand" experience with AI reinvention to explore questions of how organizations adapt workflows, prepare workers, and create new approaches to organization design.

#AI #UPenn #GAI

Wharton professor cited in Accenture report on organizational structures in age of generative AI

Resolution to Establish a Mutual Defense Compact for the Universities of the Big Ten Academic Alliance in Defense of Academic Freedom, Institutional Integrity, and the Research Enterprise - Rutgers University Senate

Apr. 9, 2025 - The Rutgers University Senate urges the President of Rutgers University to formally propose and help establish a Mutual Academic Defense Compact (MADC) among all members of the Big Ten Academic Alliance

#Rutgers #higher ed #Trump

Where Students Have Had Their Visas Revoked

Apr. 8, 2025 - 80-plus colleges and universities have identified over 300 international students and recent graduates who have had their legal status changed by the State Department.

#data #higher ed #Trump #DHS

Where Students Have Had Their Visas Revoked

BREAKING: Visas revoked for three from MIT

Apr. 8, 2025 - On April 7 at 6:56 p.m., international students at MIT received an email stating that the visas of three members of the MIT community had been revoked.

#MIT #Trump #DHS

BREAKING: Visas revoked for three from MIT

Brown University president speaks about Trump funding freeze at faculty town hall

Apr. 9, 2025 - Faculty, alums and students are calling on Brown to resist any demands the Trump administration makes on funding.

#Brown #Trump

Brown University president speaks about Trump funding freeze at faculty town hall

White House freezes funds for Cornell and Northwestern in latest crackdown

Apr. 8, 2025 - Pauses come after Trump officials sent warning letters to 60 US universities for ‘failure to protect Jewish students’

#Cornell #Northwestern #Trump #Brown #Columbia University #Harvard #Princeton #UPenn #DoD

White House freezes funds for Cornell and Northwestern in latest crackdown

Michigan State University and Apple to jointly open manufacturing academy

Apr. 8, 2025 - The program is part of the iPhone maker’s $10 billion commitment to building advanced manufacturing and skills development nationwide.

#Michigan State University #Apple #partnership

Michigan State University and Apple to jointly open manufacturing academy

Florida House proposal could cut college grants for 22,000 students

Apr. 7, 2025 - Under the chamber’s proposed FY26 budget, 15 private colleges would lose eligibility for a popular grant program, one association said.

#Florida #higher ed #budget

Florida House proposal could cut college grants for 22,000 students

Judge permanently blocks NIH’s plan to cap funding, setting up appeals battle

Apr. 8, 2025 - Universities are waiting cautiously as the agency's unilateral plan to cut billions of research support dollars has already created widespread disruption.

#NIH #research #Trump

Judge permanently blocks NIH’s plan to cap funding, setting up appeals battle

Johns Hopkins graduate programs ranked among nation's best

Apr. 8, 2025 - 'U.S. News & World Report' includes 37 JHU programs among the top 10 in the U.S. in its annual rankings, including No. 1- ranked programs in biomedical engineering, nursing, and public health.

#JHU #graduate #data #higher ed

Johns Hopkins graduate programs ranked among nation's best

Duke’s surge in applications and drop in admission rates, by the numbers

Apr. 8, 2025 - The Chronicle reviewed Duke’s admission announcements since 2000 to trace the steep climb in applications and steady decline in acceptance rates over the years.

#Duke University #undergrad #data

Duke’s surge in applications and drop in admission rates, by the numbers

Princeton Faculty vote to remove references to affirmative action from procedures, non-discrimination statement

Apr. 7, 2025 - Faculty members voted to approve a proposal to remove references to affirmative action and other suggestions of race-based preferential treatment from the University’s Non-Discrimination Statement and the Rules and Procedures of the Faculty.

#Princeton #DEI #policy

Princeton Faculty vote to remove references to affirmative action from procedures, non-discrimination statement

UW–Madison graduate programs ranked highly by U.S. News

Apr. 8, 2025 - The School of Education was ranked first in the nation for the second year in a row, and a wide variety of other fields were also ranked highly.

#graduate #University of Wisconsin-Madison #data #higher ed

UW–Madison graduate programs ranked highly by U.S. News

13 UW-Madison visas terminated by U.S. government, Mnookin says it’s not tied to ‘protest activity’

Apr. 7, 2025 - The U.S. government terminated six current University of Wisconsin-Madison student visas and seven alumni with visa employment extensions, the university announced Monday.

#Trump #University of Wisconsin-Madison #DHS

13 UW-Madison visas terminated by U.S. government, Mnookin says it’s not tied to ‘protest activity’

Visa records of six UW students, seven alumni terminated by federal authorities

Apr. 7, 2025 - The University of Wisconsin said the records of six current students and seven alumni on employment extensions have been terminated by the U.S. government.

#Trump #University of Wisconsin-Madison #DHS

Visa records of six UW students, seven alumni terminated by federal authorities

Two Yale international students stripped of their visas

Apr. 8, 2025 - Yale’s Office of International Students and Scholars confirmed to the News that the visas of two international students have been revoked.

#Trump #Brown #DHS

Two Yale international students stripped of their visas

“Universities Are the Invisible Hand.”

Apr. 7, 2025 - The leaders of the National Academy of Sciences and Arizona State University offer their thoughts on the challenges facing the scientific enterprise and how science institutions should respond.

#NASEM #Trump #research #Arizona State University

“Universities Are the Invisible Hand.”

UC Berkeley | A message about recent federal visa program updates

Apr. 7, 2025 - How UC Berkeley is supporting community members after recent visa revocations by the federal government.

#UC Berkeley #Trump #DHS

UC Berkeley | A message about recent federal visa program updates

UNLV says four international students had visas revoked

Apr. 7, 2025 - UNLV is not identifying the students affected, Officer in Charge and Provost Chris Heavey said in an email.

#Trump #UNLV #DHS

UNLV says four international students had visas revoked

Columbia International students in US have visas revoked in gov't crackdown

Apr. 7, 2025 - Columbia said that it had learned that four current international students had their visas revoked during a review of the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS) database.

#Columbia University #Trump #DHS

Columbia International students in US have visas revoked in gov't crackdown

Central Michigan University exchange student records terminated without notice

Apr. 7, 2025 - The Office of the President for Central Michigan University has issued a statement following the unexpected termination of exchange student records.

#Central Michigan University #Trump #DHS

Central Michigan University exchange student records terminated without notice

MSU international students’ visas revoked without notice

Apr. 7, 2025 - The U.S. Department of State has contacted Michigan State University students directly to inform them that their travel visas have been revoked.

#Michigan State University #Trump #DHS

MSU international students’ visas revoked without notice

Feds revoke visas of students at BU, Harvard, Tufts, Berklee, UMass and more

Apr. 7, 2025 - Some schools said the federal government had not notified them of their students’ change of status, but rather learned about it when reviewing records.

#Trump #UMass Amherst #Boston University #Northeastern University #Tufts University #Harvard #Emerson College #Harvard University #UMass Boston #UMass Lowell #DHS

Feds revoke visas of students at BU, Harvard, Tufts, Berklee, UMass and more