Brown committee releases draft statement of University values
Mar. 18, 2025 - Values include the pursuit of knowledge, diversity, academic freedom and respecting Brown’s mission.
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Brown University Tells International Students, Staff to Avoid Travel Abroad
Mar. 18, 2025 - The advice followed the deportation of a professor with a work visa who was denied re-entry to the U.S. after visiting family members in Lebanon.
NAE Awards The Grainger Foundation Frontiers of Engineering Grants for Advancement of Interdisciplinary Research
Mar 17, 2025 - Two Grainger Foundation Frontiers of Engineering (FOE) Grants of $30,000 have been awarded to attendees of FOE 2024 Symposium.
The Competition to Get Into Law School Is Brutal This Year
Mar. 15, 2025 - Facing tough job prospects and a contentious political climate, many graduates are giving priority to pay and stability.
As enrollment in online college grows, students wonder: Why does it cost more?
Mar. 15, 2025 - Rather than lowering the price, some universities use online courses to subsidize everything else.
California College Professors Divided on AI's Role in Education | KQED
Mar. 16, 2025 - Some educators see AI as a tool to enhance learning efficiency and personalize education, while others express concerns about potential overreliance on technology and its impact on critical thinking skills.
Trump administration can enforce anti-DEI orders, appeals court rules
Mar. 17, 2025 - The three-judge panel lifted a lower court’s preliminary injunction that had blocked major portions of two executive orders.
Harvard Will Make Tuition Free for More Students
Mar. 17, 2025 - Harvard is the latest elite school to announce that families with incomes of $200,000 and under will not pay tuition as a way to bolster diversity.
Leading Computing Organizations Urge Congress to Protect U.S. Research Investments
Mar. 3, 2025 - In response to recent federal actions that threaten critical research funding, six leading organizations have issued a joint statement urging Congress to protect the U.S. research enterprise.
Donation from SAP Establishes New UC Irvine Endowed Chair in Artificial Intelligence
Mar. 13, 2025 - With a $2 million gift from SAP SE, a German supplier of enterprise applications and business artificial intelligence.
CMU and MIT Join Forces To Combat Deepfake Threats - News - Carnegie Mellon University
Mar. 12, 2025 - Researchers at CMU and MIT created CHARCHA ( Computer Human Assessment for Recreating Characters with Human Actions).
Penn State University | Combination of cosmic processes shapes the size and location of sub-Neptunes
Mar. 17, 2025 - Using a newly developed tool to sift through data from the NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, a team led by a Penn State astronomer has identified young sub-Neptune planets close to their stars.
Building Capacity for One AI, One Harvard – HDSI Celebrates a Gift from OpenAI
Mar. 13, 2025 - The Harvard Data Science Initiative (HDSI) is delighted to announce a gift from OpenAI to support our commitment to pioneering AI research.
Brown DSI Sends Comp Bio and Data Fluency Students to 2025 WECode Conference
Mar. 13, 2025 - In February, Data Fluency Certificate undergraduate students Sima Raha, Nazifa Qazizada, and Computational Biology undergraduate Hannah Beakley attended the WECode Conference at Harvard University.
Department of Education initiates investigation into Notre Dame DEI programs
Mar. 15, 2025 - The University of Notre Dame was included on a list of 50 schools to be investigated by the U.S. Department of Education for race-based discrimination in their graduate programs.
Emory admits 336 Early Decision II applicants to Class of 2029
Mar. 15, 2025 - The Emory Wheel is the only independent, student-run newspaper of Emory University, since 1919.
Education Department to investigate NYU for ‘illegal’ DEI partnership
Mar. 17, 2025 - The U.S. Department of Education will investigate NYU for alleged civil rights violations.
BU under investigation by US Education Department for antisemitic discrimination
Mar. 14, 2025 - Boston University is one of 60 universities under investigation by the United States Department of Education for Title VI violations “relating to antisemitic harassment and discrimination."
George Washington U | Percentage of tenured, tenure-track faculty fell in 2024, annual academic metrics report shows
Mar. 13, 2025 - Tenured and tenure-track status for regular faculty dropped to a new low from 2023 to 2024, according to the annual core indicators report presented at the Faculty Senate meeting Friday.
Penn launches website to track federal policy changes, monitor impacts on University
Mar. 17, 2025 - The new website intends to centralize updates on ongoing federal actions impacting higher education, research funding, immigration, and other essential areas of Penn's operations.
Data science is now UC Berkeley’s largest major
Mar. 14, 2025 - Data science has become the most populated major at UC Berkeley, with a total of 1,960 undergraduate students declaring the major in the 2024-25 school year.
AI, Data Science, and the Transformation of Scientific Research: A Primer
Mar. 14, 2025 - AI and data science are two closely related yet distinct fields that are driving research and innovation.
Brown University professor, doctor deported to Lebanon despite federal judge’s orders
Mar. 16, 2025 - Assistant Professor of Medicine Rasha Alawieh has been deported and is now in Lebanon.
Machine learning model predicts PTSD symptom severity over time
Mar. 10, 2025 - Using functional brain imaging and machine learning, Yale researchers were able to predict PTSD symptoms 14 months after the initial traumatic event.
Full list of 43 countries on Donald Trump's draft travel ban
Mar. 15, 2025 - The Trump administration is considering issuing sweeping travel restrictions for citizens of dozens of countries.
Under Trump, AI Scientists Are Told to Remove ‘Ideological Bias’ From Powerful Models
Mar. 14, 2025 - NIST has issued new instructions to scientists that partner with the US Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute (AISI) to eliminate mention of 'AI safety,' 'responsible AI,' and 'AI fairness' in order to reduce 'ideological bias, to enable human flourishing and economic competitiveness.'
DeSantis installs allies at state universities in purge of ‘ideological concepts’
Mar. 12, 2025 - Gov. Ron DeSantis has taken extra care to install political allies with limited higher education experience.
Office for Civil Rights Initiates Title VI Investigations into Institutions of Higher Education
Mar. 14, 2025 - The investigations come amid allegations that these institutions have violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act (1964) by partnering with “The Ph.D. Project."
UW-Madison under federal investigation for DEI efforts
Mar. 14, 2025 - The University of Wisconsin-Madison is among 45 universities under federal investigation by U.S. Department of Education for DEI efforts and alleged Title VI violations.
Trump cuts trigger hiring freezes at New York colleges with medical research in jeopardy
Mar. 13, 2025 - New York colleges and universities are freezing hiring and warning that President Trump’s federal cuts endanger the very existence of their research programs.