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Moral Lessons From the Demoralized
If faculty are to be the sole arbiters of AI cheating, what should the standards of evidence be?
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‘Data Empire’ and Data-Driven Campus Decision-Making
AI and data-governance conversations through the lens of power.
GAO: HHS Illegally Withheld $78M in Health-Care Improvement Agency Funds
The Government Accountability Office concluded that the Health and Human Services Department violated the law when it didn’t spend $78...
A University’s Research on Its Own AI Tool Raised More Questions Than Answers
The University of Maryland ran a randomized, controlled trial of the virtual study assistant it created before deploying across campus. One problem? Just 15 percent of students in the study actually used it.
Alabama Makes State Workers Say ‘Gulf of America.’ Colleges Aren’t Spared.
Republican lawmakers say faculty can only call it the Gulf of Mexico for “historical purposes” in academic courses. Journalists are constrained by the restriction, too.
UW Madison Scientist Wins 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics
Francis Halzen, a Belgium-born physicist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, has won the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics...
Stanford Scientist Wins Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Karl Deisseroth, a professor of bioengineering and of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford University, was among the trio of...