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A panel of education and industry leaders discuss innovation districts at the World Academic Summit

Changing How Higher Ed and Industry Drive Innovation

The partnerships that drive knowledge economies are expanding to include a variety of institutions, businesses and geographies as the need to find new solutions to global problems becomes more urgent.

Chinese and American flags on a computer chip

Republicans Sound Alarm on Research Partnerships With China

A new House committee report claims that some U.S.-China university institutes pose a security threat and suggests the solution lies in a stalled Republican bill.

Flags of U.S. and China

Republicans Seek to Revive China Initiative

Many education and civil rights advocates are worried the proposed House legislation would justify racial profiling and hinder American science.

Person trying to pry open locked cage with a light bulb inside

Academic Publishers Threatened By Open-Access Expansion

Critics say a directive to make federally funded research immediately free to the public could violate authors’ copyrights. It could also disrupt the $19 billion academic publishing industry.

Researchers Failed to Disclose Foreign Support, DOJ Alleges

Three researchers from the University of Maryland at College Park who received federal research funding failed to disclose that their...
Aerial view of the rice harvest at 3S Ranch, near El Campo, Texas.

Farm Bill Proposals Boost Research Facilities and HBCUs

But a political impasse over SNAP benefits could make the bill impossible to pass, at least in 2024.

Fears Mount Over Detention of Academics Who Traveled to China

Several Chinese academics working overseas have disappeared or been detained on return to China as the country’s leaders expand national security laws.

Older scientist helping younger scientist. Both are women.

National Science Foundation Expands Mentoring Requirements to Bolster STEM Pipeline

Under a newly adopted policy, the independent federal agency now requires mentoring plans for all graduate students involved in NSF-funded research projects.