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Immigration attorneys are getting calls from hundreds of students saying that their legal status has been terminated with little notice.

After the Trump administration announced a $2.2 billion freeze on grants to Harvard, some critics have questioned why it can't just make up for federal funding with endowments.

In "Openness to Opposing Views," faculty from across the university share the value and challenges of grappling with divergent viewpoints.

In a message, the university's president said it will not 'surrender its independence' amid crackdown on education

Academia runs on underpaid, overworked PhD students. It doesn't have to.

MIT Professor Rohit Karnik has been named the new director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab (J-WAFS), the only program at MIT specifically focused on water and food for human need.

Kristin Persson, Stuart Russell and David Schaffer inducted by the prestigious organization

Seth Stevens was disturbed after learning the student newspaper at Seton Hill University, The Setonian, would be put on an indefinite hiatus. "It was very sad," said Stevens, 21, of Greensburg. "I was very much looking forward to writing." This spring was to be his first official semester as a

MIT-Kalaniyot, a faculty-led initiative, launched two programs to bring Israeli scholars to MIT for collaboration and training, advancing research while contributing to a better understanding of their country.

With enrollment falling, a growing number of colleges are in financial jeopardy.

Giovanni Traverso, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT and a gastroenterologist in the Division of Gastroenterology at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH), is working on a variety of innovative solutions to improve patient care. As a physician and an engineer, he brings a unique perspective.

For over two decades, Berkeley has almost always been ranked as the No. 1 or No. 2 public school in the country.

An estimated 38% of graduate student employees are now in unions as 'unionization becomes a tactic for change'

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Professor Alex K. Shalek is the new director of MIT's Institute for Medical Engineering and Sciences (IMES).

University of California President Michael V. Drake, M.D., announced today that he will step down from his role at the end of the 2024-25 academic year after five years leading California's world-renowned public research university system. Dr. Drake was appointed as the 21st president of the University of California in July 2020, a position that became part of a 50-year career in higher education.

The ability to teach and conduct research free from political interference is the cornerstone of higher education and its contribution to the public good. Academic freedom, however, has become increasingly threatened.

Yartsev will join 20 other UC Berkeley faculty members whose salaries and a major part of their research are paid for by the HHMI.

Dozens of California public educators walked into a sunlight streaked, first floor-room at the edge of UC Berkeley in late June. Hugging each other and snagging coffee or water, they navigated blue and gold star-shaped balloons to settle at tables facing a projector screen. These scholars are part of a state effort to make California the nation's leader in excellent, equitable and accessible undergraduate data…

The field of synthetic biology, the science of manipulating biology, has a lot of "cooks in the kitchen," which has both helped it flourish and made it unusually difficult to create a cohesive, consistent curriculum for students at every level of study. Each discipline involved—from chemical engineering to ethics—has a unique approach to teaching and literature, which creates inconsistencies between what scientists…