Scott Delaney: Google Sheet to track NIH grant cancellations
Mar. 7, 2025 - NIH is cancelling grants, but it's not clear exactly what they're cancelling and why. Without this information, we can't respond.
Higher Ed News
NSF Implementation of Recent Executive Orders
Mar. 7, 2025 - Information for the NSF community regarding executive orders.
Sinclair Community College encourages bachelor's degree completion with new Arizona State University partnership
Mar. 1, 2025 - Sinclair Community College has partnered with Arizona State University to allow students to transfer an associate's degree to another bachelor's degree program.
How the NIH dominates the world’s health research — in charts
Mar. 10, 2025 - Abrupt cuts by the Trump administration to the US National Institutes of Health threaten progress in medical research globally.
NASA begins mass firings of scientists ahead of Trump team’s deadline
Mar. 11, 2025 - Top advisers in the Office of the Chief Scientist are among the first to go amid downsizing effort.
Andy Konwinski to speak at CDSS undergraduate commencement ceremonies on May 22
Mar. 11, 2025 - Andy Konwinski, co-founder of Databricks, Perplexity, and Laude Ventures, will speak at UC Berkeley’s College of Computing, Data Science, and Society undergraduate commencement ceremonies on May 22.
Johns Hopkins Plans Staff Layoffs After $800 Million Grant Cuts
Mar. 11, 2025 - Local and international health research efforts are already winding down as the university braces for even more potential cuts.
UWashington | Working together to address the financial risks facing our University
Mar. 9, 2025 - Given the challenges we now face at the federal and state levels, we expect that some level of budget cuts will become necessary, and the time has now come to expand our financial sustainability efforts.
Clemson University limits expenditures through FY25
Jan. 30, 2025 - Clemson University is limiting its expenditures to those deemed “mission critical” in response to the construction of new facilities required by its increasing enrollment rate.
Introducing openRxiv: a new independent home for preprint sharing in the life sciences - openRxiv
Mar. 11, 2025 - openRxiv as an independent nonprofit to oversee bioRxiv and medRxiv, the world’s leading preprint servers for life and health sciences.
Pitt institutes hiring freeze at least through June in response to funding uncertainties
Mar. 10, 2025 - The freeze will remain in place through the end of the current fiscal year (June 30) and may be extended into the next fiscal year.
UNC ranked top public institution in Fulbright scholars, facilitating global exchange
Mar. 9, 2025 - UNC was recently ranked the No. 1 public university for the Fulbright US Students Program, producing 27 Fulbright scholars in the 2024-25 application cycle — more than any other public institution.
Faculty Searches in Limbo As Freeze Interrupts Hiring Processes Across Harvard
Mar. 11, 2025 - Harvard’s imposition of a hiring freeze interrupted faculty hiring processes across the University, leaving professors scrambling to figure out how to fill vacancies — and how to keep their departments’ work running if they can’t.
Olinto mandates in-person classes and exams amid ICE presence around campus
Mar. 11, 2025 - University Provost Angela Olinto wrote that all classes and exams must continue in person as scheduled in a Monday morning email to Columbia faculty obtained by Spectator, urging “generosity and mutual patience as we navigate this together.”
‘SEND HELP!’: 59% of students face insecurities around needs like food and housing
Mar. 11, 2025 - Among students who stopped-out or are in danger of doing so, 79% cited basic needs insecurities and financial challenges, the Hope Center found.
Education Department warns 60 colleges it could take action over antisemitism concerns
Mar. 10, 2025 - The letters escalate the Trump administration’s scrutiny of how colleges are handling student protests over the Israel-Hamas war.
‘America can’t be great without great science. That is where the Academies can help.’
Mar. 10, 2025 - Recent actions by the federal government affecting agencies that fund science in the United States have sent shock waves through the research community.
Robotic helper making mistakes? Just nudge it in the right direction
Mar. 7, 2025 - MIT researchers developed a framework that lets a user correct a robot’s behavior during deployment using simple interactions, such as by pointing to an item, tracing a trajectory, or nudging the robot’s arm.
Harvard Announces Hiring Freeze
Mar. 10, 2025 - Amid funding uncertainties, the University prepares for austerity.
ASU changes LGBTQ+ resources on University webpages
Mar. 5, 2025 - ASU quietly changed LGBTQ+ resources on multiple websites and redirected the links to a page for the Rainbow Coalition, a student-led coalition that advocates for the LGBTQ+ community on campus.
Columbia Holds Campus-Wide Summit on Artificial Intelligence
Mar. 7, 2025 - The day-long series of events showcased the unparalleled depth of the University’s AI expertise.
The Data Science Boom: How UC San Diego is Preparing Professionals for the Future
Mar. 7, 2025 - As data-driven decision-making and AI become essential across virtually all industries to stay competitive, the demand for skilled data science professionals is skyrocketing.
Dean’s Blog: Data Availability – A Call to Action — UVA School of Data Science
Mar. 10, 2025 - Recent developments in the U.S. have brought into question the availability and sustainability of public data which is the lifeblood of data science.
Search underway for next Penn State ICDS director | Penn State University
Mar. 10, 2025 - Penn State is currently seeking nominations and candidates for the position of director of the Institute for Computational and Data Science (ICDS), housed within the Office of the Senior Vice President for Research.
Notre Dame announces hiring freeze ‘effective immediately’
Mar. 7, 2025 - The university cited recent executive orders and federal agency directives, saying changes on the horizon have a direct bearing on Notre Dame’s finances.
Universities are facing big cuts to research funding. At Duke, it's a time for 'damage control'
Mar. 8, 2025 - Last year, the school brought in about 130 students, said Beth Sullivan, who oversees the school’s 17 biomedical Ph.D. programs.
‘Perplexing and distressing’: Johns Hopkins warns of budget cuts amid Trump-era funding chaos
Mar. 5, 2025 - The institution is grappling with the “unexpected stoppage” of $800 million in funding from the U.S. Agency for International Development.
Connecticut Forms 'AI Alliance' of 16 Universities
Mar. 7, 2025 - In addition to almost every four-year college in the state, the Connecticut AI Alliance will also include six community organizations and nonprofit agencies working together to drive innovation and create jobs.
Tougher H-1B Visa Scrutiny Anticipated as Annual Lottery Opens
Mar. 6, 2025 - US businesses looking to add high-skilled foreign talent on H-1Bs face the potential for stringent scrutiny from the Trump administration if they come out on top of the annual lottery for the specialty occupation visas.
Scoop: State Dept. to use AI to revoke visas of foreign students who appear "pro-Hamas"
Mar 6, 2025 - The effort includes AI-assisted reviews of tens of thousands of student visa holders' social media accounts and marks a dramatic escalation in the U.S. government's policing of foreign nationals' conduct and speech.