‘Mind-captioning’ AI decodes brain activity to turn thoughts into text
Nov 5, 2025 - A non-invasive imaging technique can translate scenes in your head into sentences. It could help to reveal how the brain interprets the world.
Higher Ed News
New curriculum in the UK to give young people the skills for life and work
Nov 4, 2025 - The UK government to set out plans to bring the curriculum into the modern day and help young people step into the future.
Google’s new hurricane model was breathtakingly good this season
Nov 4, 2025 - Meanwhile, the US Global Forecasting System continues to get worse.
More students are double-majoring out of fear they won’t be able to get jobs
Nov 5, 2025 - Nationwide, ~12% of graduates earned more than one credential in the 2023–2024 school year, compared to just 6% a decade earlier.
Some public universities report fewer international students amid Trump restrictions
Nov 5, 2025 - Coming to the United States to study has become more difficult. President Donald Trump is taking a harder line on international students, arguing that they are taking university spots or jobs from American students.
Amid budget cuts, Michigan State University colleges pausing graduate program admissions
Nov 4, 2025 - The halted enrollment adds to a growing list of tangible effects being felt on campus from the university’s mission to reduce its operating budget by 9% over the next two fiscal years.
UCI Sangeetha Abdu Jyothi Receives NSF CAREER Award
Nov 4, 2025 - Sangeetha Abdu Jyothi, assistant professor at the UC Irvine Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences, has received a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award
Rada Mihalcea and collaborators receive ICMI Ten-Year Impact Runner-Up Award
Nov 4, 2025 - The award recognizes the lasting influence of their research on multimodal deception detection using real-life courtroom data.
Can AI be truly creative?
Nov 5, 2025 - Chatbots and AI models are challenging ideas about who — or what — can create art, music and more.
Navigating Challenges, Opportunities, and Uncertainties as Women in Data Science
Nov 3, 2025 - At AN25, an engaging panel session focused on the challenges and opportunities of women in data science professions.
Schmidt Sciences awards $18M to researchers working to ensure AI benefits society
Nov 5, 2025 - Schmidt Sciences announced that 28 scholars studying how to fulfill AI’s potential to dramatically benefit humankind are eligible to receive more than $18 million in AI2050 fellowships.
Auburn University requires faculty to review courses to comply with anti-DEI law
Nov 1, 2025 - Auburn's provost office posted a web site on how to comply with state and federal DEI mandates on Oct. 31.
Penn State president says university would not join Trump’s higher education compact
Nov 3, 2025 - Neeli Bendapudi addressed the topic during the “State of State” town hall last week.
University of Pennsylvania Partners With the State on AI
Nov 4, 2025 - The Cooperative Agreement for Artificial Intelligence Advising Services enables collaboration between the state and the University of Pennsylvania, with the latter advising the government on AI.
Learning With AI: What It Means for Students, Teachers, and Parents
Oct 29, 2025 - The future of education and what it means to build a smarter, more human-centered classroom.
UC Irvine graduates qualify for British HPI Visa
Nov 4, 2025 - The British government has updated its list of universities eligible for the High Potential Individual (HPI) Visa — and UC Irvine graduates now qualify!
Are Trump’s Settlements Losing Steam?
Nov 3, 2025 - The Trump administration forced significant changes and a fine at Columbia but won limited concessions from Virginia and remains in legal battles with Harvard and UCLA.
USU Michael Twohig Presents 2025 D. Wynne Thorne Lecture
Oct 31, 2025 -Michael Twohig gave the 2025 D. Wynne Thorne Lecture to an audience of colleagues, students and other members of Utah State's research community on Oct. 28.
UIC | Zuck’s call for stronger network protocols published in prestigious CS journal
Oct 29, 2025 - Research Professor Lenore Zuck coauthored a paper encouraging collaboration between the networking community and formal methods researchers to develop formal languages, tools, and methodologies for network protocols.
Universities Must Reclaim AI Research for the Public Good
Oct 30, 2025 - With corporate AI labs turning inward, academia must carry forward the mantle of open science.
Natarajan Ravikumar: From UNC Charlotte to Global Innovator
Oct 31, 2025 - When Natarajan Ravikumar arrived in the United States from India in 2010, he carried with him a vision that would later define a remarkable career at the intersection of technology, leadership, and innovation.
UU SCI’s Expansive Presence at IEEE VIS 2025 Includes Best Paper and Test of Time Awards
Nov 1, 2025 - SCI researchers are presenting 10 workshop papers, organizing 3 workshops, and leading a panel and a tutorial.
U-M Ann Arbor | MIDAS Shaping the Future of AI for Conservation
Oct 30, 2025 - In September 2025, Schmidt Science Fellows and alumni from Oxford, Michigan, and Cornell gathered in Oxford for a week-long workshop titled Shaping the Future of AI for Conservation.
UW–Madison partners with Microsoft and TitletownTech to accelerate AI-driven scientific discovery
OCt 30, 2025 - UW–Madison researchers will work with Microsoft Discovery experts and TitletownTech’s network of industry partners to explore applications of advanced AI that can accelerate research and translation.
UVA SDS | From Classroom to Clinic: Applying Data Science to Global Health in Tanzania
Oct 27, 2025 - A Q&A with MSDS student Kayla Lee as she reflects on her fieldwork through UVA’s Global Data Science Fellowship researching infectious diseases in Tanzania.
UChicago DSI | Two Postdoctoral Scholars Awarded Fellowships
Oct 31, 2025 - The Data Science Institute is pleased to announce that two members of its Postdoctoral Scholars program have been awarded named fellowships in recognition of their exceptional research.
Applications are open for Penn AI Postdoctoral Fellowships
Oct 31, 2025 - The Data Driven Discovery Initiative has expanded its Penn postdoctoral fellows program in partnership with Penn AI.
Neighborhood Data Project Probes Environmental Challenges
Oct 31, 2025 - Even with diminished federal funding, organizers of the Baltimore-Social Environmental Collaborative plan to empower community members to keep collecting data and putting it to use.
Xavier University lays off 46 staff amid financial pressures
Oct 30, 2025 - Despite other reports, the university does not anticipate additional layoffs in the near future.
Week in review: 2 colleges volunteer for Trump’s compact
Nov 3, 2025 - Sweeping layoffs at a well-known ed tech company to the sector's fight against the $100K H-1B fee.