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‘Heartbreaking’: Penn community expresses uncertainty, concern after graduate admissions cuts

Mar. 3, 2025 - The Daily Pennsylvanian spoke with several Penn students and faculty members about the future of higher education following cuts to graduate admissions rates.

#UPenn #Trump #graduate

‘Heartbreaking’: Penn community expresses uncertainty, concern after graduate admissions cuts

UC Irvine | Preventing Bad Experiences with Digital Goods

Feb. 28, 2025 - UC Irvine Giovanna Mancinelli is driven by the psychology behind digital products and the audiences interacting with them.

#UC Irvine #dssg #ADSA member

UC Irvine | Preventing Bad Experiences with Digital Goods

Returns to Specific Graduate Degrees: Estimates Using Texas Administrative Records

Feb. 2025 - The returns average 0.159 but vary widely across fields, with a standard deviation of 0.176. Earnings effects are higher for women, lower for part time students, and depend on undergraduate major.

#higher ed #graduate #degree #career #economics #data

Returns to Specific Graduate Degrees: Estimates Using Texas Administrative Records

POLITICO Pro: New Jersey colleges now face a state funding squeeze amid federal cuts

Feb. 28, 2025 - Gov. Murphy's budget eyes cutting $184 million in funding to higher education.

#New Jersey #higher ed #budget

POLITICO Pro: New Jersey colleges now face a state funding squeeze amid federal cuts

Arizona bill to cut off state funding over college DEI courses gains traction

Feb. 28, 2025 - If signed into law, faculty at the state's public colleges would not be able to teach about subjects like antiracism and unconscious bias.

#Department of Education #DEI #politics #Trump #Arizona

Arizona bill to cut off state funding over college DEI courses gains traction

1,000 Scientist AI Jam Session | OpenAI

Feb. 28, 2025 - OpenAI and nine national labs bring together leading scientists for first-of-its kind event.

#OpenAI #collaboration #AI #Oak Ridge National Laboratory

1,000 Scientist AI Jam Session | OpenAI

UC San Diego Team Uncovers Mystery of Water's Hidden Dual Phases

Feb. 26, 2025 - A study using SDSC's Expanse has produced compelling evidence that at supercooled temperatures and high pressures, water can exist in two distinct liquid states, each with its own unique structure and density.

#UC San Diego #ADSA member

UC San Diego Team Uncovers Mystery of Water's Hidden Dual Phases

UToronto DSI | Bridging The Gap: CrossTALK Bootcamp Unites Computational And Experimental Scientists For Drug Discovery

Feb. 20, 2025 - the Structural Genomics Consortium's launched CrossTALK Bootcamp; a training program designed to bring together computational scientists and experimental researchers in a unique setting.

#University of Toronto #data science #collaboration #ADSA member

UToronto DSI | Bridging The Gap: CrossTALK Bootcamp Unites Computational And Experimental Scientists For Drug Discovery

Advancing reticular chemistry with large language models

Feb. 24, 2025 - UC Berkeley researchers in chemistry and computer science recently reported on their use of a LLM to advance discovery in reticular chemistry and materials science.

#UC Berkeley #LLM #data science

Advancing reticular chemistry with large language models

UVA SDS | FAIR Symposium Tackles Online Toxicity, AI in Recruiting

Feb. 28, 2025 - The 2025 FAIR Symposium featured Mona Sloane and Tom Hartvigsen presenting recent research on their respective topics of AI in recruiting and online toxicity.

#ADSA member #university of virginia #dssg #data science #AI

UVA SDS | FAIR Symposium Tackles Online Toxicity, AI in Recruiting

Vanderbilt Data Science Institute Unveils “Deep Research Assist” Program to Academic Research

Feb. 26, 2025 - Deep Research Assist is a new initiative that will help faculty approach research development and grant writing across the university.

#Vanderbilt #EdTech #GAI #research #ADSA member

Vanderbilt Data Science Institute Unveils “Deep Research Assist” Program to Academic Research

Ohio bathroom law targeting transgender students has brought internal strife to some campuses

Feb. 23, 2025 - An Ohio law designating school bathrooms for use by people based on their sex at birth kicks in soon.

#Ohio #ADSA member #DEI

Ohio bathroom law targeting transgender students has brought internal strife to some campuses

A surge of DEI cuts hits colleges across the US

Feb. 27, 2025 - Some colleges, like Ohio State University, are reversing their stances on diversity efforts as federal and state policymakers ratchet up the pressure.

#DEI #Trump #Department of Education #Ohio State University #University of Cincinnati #UPenn #Ivy Tech Community College #University of Alaska #University of Iowa #Des Moines Area Community College #Grand View University

A surge of DEI cuts hits colleges across the US

Grad School Is in Trouble

Feb. 27, 2025 - The latest signal that the future of the university is under threat

#graduate #University of Washington #university of virginia #biomedical #NIH #Trump #ADSA member #UCLA

Grad School Is in Trouble

McGill University planning to cut budget by $45M, slash up to 500 jobs

Feb. 10, 2025 - McGill University says it needs to cut $45 million from its 2025-26 budget to eliminate operating deficits over the next three years.

#McGill University #budget

McGill University planning to cut budget by $45M, slash up to 500 jobs

Wisconsin appeals court shuts down state-funded college grant program for minority students

Feb. 26, 2025 - The Wisconsin appeals court struck down a state grant program intended to give certain minority students a financial boost after admission.

#DEI #Wisconsin #higher ed

Wisconsin appeals court shuts down state-funded college grant program for minority students

Opinion | Two-Thirds of Colleges Show Signs of Financial Stress. How Does Yours Stack Up?

Feb. 28, 2025 - For many, higher ed’s budget crunch is hitting close to home.

#higher ed #budget #Trump

Opinion | Two-Thirds of Colleges Show Signs of Financial Stress. How Does Yours Stack Up?

Case Western Reserve University limits hiring, other spending amid federal funding concerns

Feb. 26, 2025 - The university has implemented a “temporary pauses” on hiring for staff positions, new additional pay and temporary staffing requests, unrestricted discretionary spending and travel requests.

#Case Western Reserve #Trump

Case Western Reserve University limits hiring, other spending amid federal funding concerns

University of Northern Colorado Pauses Hiring Efforts

Feb. 11, 2025 - President Andy Feinstein announced the University of Northern Colorado is pausing all hiring efforts for new and vacant positions on January 24.

#Trump #University of Northern Colorado

University of Northern Colorado Pauses Hiring Efforts

Cornell freezes hiring, asks department heads to cut costs amid "financial uncertainty" - The Ithaca Voice

Feb. 27, 2028 - Cornell University has initiated a four-month hiring freeze in all college, school and administrative units.

#Cornell #Trump

Cornell freezes hiring, asks department heads to cut costs amid "financial uncertainty" - The Ithaca Voice

BU | Crovella and Wildman Named Inaugural Duan Family Faculty Fellows in CDS

Feb. 28, 2025 - Boston University’s Mark Crovella and Wesley J. Wildman have been named the inaugural Duan Family Faculty Fellows (DFF) in BU’s Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences.

#Boston University #ADSA member

BU | Crovella and Wildman Named Inaugural Duan Family Faculty Fellows in CDS

NJIT | An AI Class That is Exclusive and Needed Now More Than Ever

Feb. 24, 2025 - Andrew Sohn's course, CS 485: Intro to GPU Cluster Programming, is like no other in the U.S.

#data science #AI #NJIT #ADSA member

NJIT | An AI Class That is Exclusive and Needed Now More Than Ever

Hiring freeze for non-essential positions | MIT

Feb. 14, 2025 - MIT is taking the step of instituting a general hiring freeze on all nonessential positions, effective immediately and until further notice. Faculty positions will not be impacted by this freeze.

#MIT #Trump

Hiring freeze for non-essential positions | MIT

Cornell 2025 Hiring Pause

Feb. 27, 2025 - Effective immediately, the university is implementing a position control process for all hiring.

#Cornell #Trump

Cornell 2025 Hiring Pause

Graduate chairs express concerns over admissions cuts in letter to Penn SAS admin

Feb. 27, 2025 - The letter expressed concerns about the negative effects of reducing graduate program class sizes, and argued that the cuts may inflict

#UPenn #Trump #higher ed #graduate #social science

Graduate chairs express concerns over admissions cuts in letter to Penn SAS admin

Penn to raise tuition by 3.7% for 2025-26 academic year, expand financial aid

Feb. 27, 2025 - At a University Board of Trustees meeting Thursday, administrators announced that tuition will increase from $60,920 to $63,204 next academic year.

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Penn to raise tuition by 3.7% for 2025-26 academic year, expand financial aid

Michigan AI Job Postings Prompt 4 New Degrees at GVSU

Feb. 27, 2025 - Grand Valley State University is expanding its College of Computing with new programs and concentrations.

#Grand Valley State University #AI #degree #computer science

Michigan AI Job Postings Prompt 4 New Degrees at GVSU

Texas A&M University to Buy $45M Supercomputer

Feb. 27, 2025 - The Texas A&M University System has an agreement to purchase an AI supercomputer to support research in AI, graphics rendering and scientific simulations.

#data science #AI #Texas A&M University #EdTech

Texas A&M University to Buy $45M Supercomputer

US universities curtail PhD admissions amid Trump science funding cuts

Feb. 27, 2025 - Nature talks to prospective students left in limbo as some institutes withdraw offers and put applications on hold.

#Trump #higher ed #graduate #training #ADSA member #University of Pittsburgh #Vanderbilt #UPenn #NIH #JHU #University of Maryland #university of arizona

US universities curtail PhD admissions amid Trump science funding cuts

The Trump administration’s DEI orders are dividing Colorado universities — and their students

Feb. 26, 2025 - Colorado State University Fort Collins universities haven’t.

#Colorado State University #DEI #Trump

The Trump administration’s DEI orders are dividing Colorado universities — and their students