Published on: 2025-04-23 11:42:01
Trump administration threatens Harvard with foreign student ban 1 hour ago Share Save Kelly Ng BBC News Share Save Getty Images Harvard President Alan Garber has flatly rejected the White House's sweeping list of demands The US government has threatened to ban Harvard University from enrolling foreign students - after the institution said it would not bow to demands from President Donald Trump's administration and was hit with a funding freeze. The White House has demanded the oldest universi
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The Trump administration has been using federal research funding as a cudgel. The government has blocked billions of dollars in research funds and threatened to put a hold on even more in order to compel universities to adopt what it presents as essential reforms. In the case of Columbia University, that includes changes in the leadership of individual academic departments. On Friday, the government sent a list of demands that it presented as necessary to "maintain Harvard’s financial relations
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Alienware is going all in on collegiate esports with the inaugural Alienware Collegiate Clash (AWCC25), featuring Apex Legends. The championship match kicks off today (April 12) at noon Pacific time at Purdue University, home to a state-of-the-art Alienware Purdue Gaming Lounge. While college Apex tournaments have been held before, this marks one of the first in-person events, featuring professional production, in direct collaboration with Apex Legends. Alienware said this is not just a tourna
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Western Sydney University (WSU) announced two security incidents that exposed personal information belonging to members of its community. WSU is a prominent Australian institution offering various undergraduate, postgraduate, and research programs across multiple disciplines. It serves a student body of 47,000 and employs over 4,500 permanent and seasonal staff, operating with an annual budget of approximately $600 million. One of the incidents disclosed concerns the compromise of one of the
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Colleges and universities across Pennsylvania and the country continue to report international student visas being revoked. Seven current and recent graduates at Carnegie Mellon University were notified that their service was terminated, including Jayson Ma's, who moved to the U.S. from China on a student visa in 2016. (Photo: KDKA) "I first came to the U.S. in 2016 for high school and it was a decision that was made by my parents, you know, just recognizing that, there's a lot of great educa
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Shortly after its inauguration, the Trump administration has made no secret that it isn't especially interested in funding research. Before January's end, major science agencies had instituted pauses on research funding, and grant funding has not been restored to previous levels since. Many individual grants have been targeted on ideological grounds, and agencies like the National Science Foundation are expected to see significant cuts. Since then, individual universities have been targeted, sta
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Last Friday could have passed for a lovely spring day on the Connecticut campus of Wesleyan University. Students with books and laptops dotted a green hillside; flocks of admissions visitors trailed tour guides; baseball season had just begun, and practice was under way. It was almost possible to forget the grim straits of American higher education in 2025. Colleges and universities have been early targets of the second Trump Administration. In the past month, the Administration has announced i
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Before the official faculty profiles of renowned Indiana University, Bloomington (IU) data privacy professor Xiaofeng Wang and his wife disappeared and the FBI raided two of the couple’s homes last week, the school is said to have been reviewing for months whether the professor received unreported research funding from China, WIRED has learned. Indiana University contacted Wang in December to ask about a 2017-2018 grant in China that listed Wang as a researcher, according to an unsigned stateme
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Before the official faculty profiles of renowned Indiana University, Bloomington (IU) data privacy professor Xiaofeng Wang and his wife disappeared and the FBI raided two of the couple’s homes last week, the school is said to have been reviewing for months whether the professor received unreported research funding from China, WIRED has learned. Indiana University contacted Wang in December to ask about a 2017-2018 grant in China that listed Wang as a researcher, according to an unsigned stateme
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A prominent computer scientist who has spent 20 years publishing academic papers on cryptography, privacy, and cybersecurity has gone incommunicado, had his professor profile, email account, and phone number removed by his employer, Indiana University, and had his homes raided by the FBI. No one knows why. Xiaofeng Wang has a long list of prestigious titles. He was the associate dean for research at Indiana University's Luddy School of Informatics, Computing and Engineering, a fellow at the Ins
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A prominent computer scientist who has spent 20 years publishing academic papers on cryptography, privacy, and cybersecurity has gone incommunicado, had his professor profile, email account, and phone number removed by his employer Indiana University, and had his homes raided by the FBI. No one knows why. Xiaofeng Wang has a long list of prestigious titles. He was the associate dean for research at Indiana University's Luddy School of Informatics, Computing and Engineering, a fellow at the Inst
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A prominent computer scientist who has spent 20 years publishing academic papers on cryptography, privacy, and cybersecurity has gone incommunicado, had his professor profile, email account, and phone number removed by his employer Indiana University, and had his homes raided by the FBI. No one knows why. Xiaofeng Wang has a long list of prestigious titles. He was the associate dean for research at Indiana University's Luddy School of Informatics, Computing and Engineering, a fellow at the Inst
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In 2019, scholars at Cambridge University Library discovered an extremely rare 750-year-old text on the legends of King Arthur hiding in plain sight. A fragment of the fragile manuscript had been repurposed in the binding of a 16th-century property record, making it almost impossible to study the medieval text without dismantling and certainly damaging the record’s cover. Almost impossible—but not completely. An interdisciplinary team of scholars from the University of Cambridge used various ad
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“Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in!” With a sly grin that I’d soon come to recognize, Paul Ginsparg quoted Michael Corleone from The Godfather. Ginsparg, a physics professor at Cornell University and a certified MacArthur genius, may have little in common with Al Pacino’s mafia don, but both are united by the feeling that they were denied a graceful exit from what they’ve built. Nearly 35 years ago, Ginsparg created arXiv, a digital repository where researchers could share the
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Apple has donated 30 million yuan ($4.1 million) to Zhejiang University to help fund app development training in China. CEO Tim Cook has also visited Hangzhou, China’s artificial intelligence hub and home to the developers of the controversial chatbot DeepSeek … Apple diplomacy in China Despite moves to diversify production in India, Thailand, and elsewhere, Apple remains highly dependent on China, with the vast majority of the world’s iPhones made in a single plant there. The relationship be
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Press Release Oxygen discovered in most distant known galaxy Two different teams of astronomers have detected oxygen in the most distant known galaxy, JADES-GS-z14-0. The discovery, reported in two separate studies, was made possible thanks to the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), in which the European Southern Observatory (ESO) is a partner. This record-breaking detection is making astronomers rethink how quickly galaxies formed in the early Universe. Discovered last year,
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Date Molecule Versions Contributor Location December 2024 Progesterone The menstruation and pregnancy hormone HTML JSmol Sophie Goodall Bristol University November 2024 Phosphine The fishy smelling insecticide HTML JSmol Glenny Wu and Stephen Belding Rugby School, UK September 2024 Metaldehyde The component of slug pellets now banned in many countries HTML JSMol Paul May Bristol University August 2024 Curare ( D -Tubocurarine) The South American dart poison known as the 'Flying death'
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The changes go into effect for the 2025-2026 academic year. Harvard says tuition will be free for families making $200K or less Harvard University on Monday announced that tuition will be free for students from families with annual incomes of $200,000 or less starting in the 2025-26 academic year. "Putting Harvard within financial reach for more individuals widens the array of backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives that all of our students encounter, fostering their intellectual and perso
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This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: Johns Hopkins University is cutting jobs in the United States as well as 44 other countries. Prestigious US university Johns Hopkins said Thursday it will lay off more than 2,000 employees around the world in the aftermath of the Trump administration's massive reduction in foreign aid funds. "This is a difficult da
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Aix Marseille University in France has said that 40 U.S. scientists have “answered the call” it put out earlier this month offering safe harbor to fleeing Americans. Scientists in the U.S. under the Trump regime are facing a sudden loss of funding and stricter regulations on speech and areas of research. According to Aix Marseille University President Eric Berton, some of them will find a home in France. In a press release about its “Safe Space for Science” initiative, the University announced
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Drawing from University archives, campus maps, academic literature, and news clippings, the Maroon charted the University’s contentious property acquisitions from its charter in 1890 to the present. As the University of Chicago has expanded its property footprint on the South Side, conflicting priorities, land use disputes, and racial tension have characterized a historically fraught “town and gown” relationship with the surrounding neighborhoods. Setting the stage for others to follow, the Uni
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Drawing from University archives, campus maps, academic literature, and news clippings, the Maroon charted the University’s contentious property acquisitions from its charter in 1890 to the present. As the University of Chicago has expanded its property footprint on the South Side, conflicting priorities, land use disputes, and racial tension have characterized a historically fraught “town and gown” relationship with the surrounding neighborhoods. Setting the stage for others to follow, the Uni
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ma_rish/Getty Images AI is permeating nearly every industry, and, as a result, it is a powerful skill for working professionals or those soon entering the workforce to master. To help more people learn AI skills and technologies, Nvidia established the Deep Learning Institute University Ambassador Program, which equips educators with resources to teach state-of-the-art AI workshops. This program is now expanding to a new state. Also: Open AI, Anthropic invite US scientists to experiment with f
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Nvidia has teamed up with the state of Utah on an AI education initiative to improve workforce training and economic growth. The public-private partnership aims to equip universities, community colleges and adult education programs across Utah with the resources to develop skills in generative AI. “AI will continue to grow in importance, affecting every sector of Utah’s economy,” said Spencer Cox, governor of Utah, in a statement. “We need to prepare our students and faculty for this revolutio
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Bottom line: OpenAI has faced repeated accusations of exploiting content creators, journalists, and researchers to fuel its for-profit empire built on AI models prone to hallucinations. Now, the San Francisco-based company is attempting to repair its tarnished reputation by committing millions to a new funding initiative aimed at putting its technology to more positive use. OpenAI recently announced NextGenAI, a new consortium aimed at advancing research and education through AI-driven innovati
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The early days of Linux This article brought to you by LWN subscribers Subscribers to LWN.net made this article — and everything that surrounds it — possible. If you appreciate our content, please buy a subscription and make the next set of articles possible. My name is Lars Wirzenius, and I was there when Linux started. Linux is now a global success, but its beginnings were rather more humble. These are my memories of the earliest days of Linux, its creation, and the start of its path to wher
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IEEE Intelligent Systems is honored to announce the 2024 recipients of its prestigious “AI’s 10 to Watch” award, which recognizes 10 rising stars in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) from among dozens of nominees. “The ‘AI’s 10 to Watch’ award recognizes exceptional talent, ground-breaking innovation, and vision shaping the future of Artificial Intelligence,” remarked Bo An, the incoming Editor in Chief of IEEE Intelligent Systems. “The 2024 recipients represent the cutting edge of AI r
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A hot potato: Not for the first time, legal action is being brought against a school that punished a student for allegedly using AI. The individual in this case was expelled from the University of Minnesota last year over the accusations, which he says are untrue and a conspiracy concocted by his professors. Haishan Yang was working toward his second PhD from the University of Minnesota when he was expelled last year. It's alleged that he used artificial intelligence tools to write his essays.
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