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Illustration: Dirty unused lab equipment and a dead plant merge into a classroom laboratory setting with students and a professor.
Illustration: Dirty unused lab equipment and a dead plant merge into a classroom laboratory setting with students and a professor.

Researchers ‘Cautiously Optimistic’ NIH Will Restore Grants

June 27, 2025

A judge ruled last week that the NIH unlawfully terminated hundreds of research grants and ordered the agency to restore them. Internal rumblings suggest the NIH will comply, but researchers have yet to get their money.

A black-and-white photo of a large concrete office building
A black-and-white photo of a large concrete office building
A robotic hand holds a stack of books, with the bottom book reading "AI" on its spine.
A robotic hand holds a stack of books, with the bottom book reading "AI" on its spine.

How One College Library Plans to Cut Through the AI Hype

June 25, 2025

As higher ed institutions embrace generative artificial intelligence tools, Stony Brook University’s library is spearheading efforts to help students and faculty learn how to use them in an ethical, responsible way.

Four people, three women and a man, holding survey tools and dressed to be outdoors.
Four people, three women and a man, holding survey tools and dressed to be outdoors.

U.S. Universities’ Investment in Sustainability Eclipsed by International Peers

June 18, 2025

Arizona State University, a pioneer of sustainability, is the only U.S. institution in the top 50 of Times Higher Education’s 2025 Impact Rankings. Trump’s policies may make it even harder for American universities to improve in the years to come.

Tulane University, founded in 1834, is a private nonsectarian research university located on Saint Charles Avenue.
Tulane University, founded in 1834, is a private nonsectarian research university located on Saint Charles Avenue.

Tulane Environmentalist Resigns Amid Research ‘Gag Order’

June 13, 2025

Kimberly Terrell, director of community engagement at the Tulane Environmental Law Clinic, alleges that university officials told her not to publicly discuss her research after someone at the state capitol cited it as evidence that Tulane is “anti–chemical industry.”