President Donald Trump signed an executive order creating the “Genesis Mission,” directing the Energy Department, national labs and federal science agencies to build a unified digital platform of government research data and to solicit private-sector and university partners to apply AI to engineering, energy and national-security problems. White House officials framed the effort as the most ambitious federal marshaling of scientific resources since Apollo and urged tech firms and campuses to help convert federal data into actionable discoveries. The order arrives as higher education grapples with AI adoption on campus. Commentators and academics are pushing for structural change: one prominent essay argues that universities must reinvent curricula, assessment and learning models around AI to ensure graduates can apply knowledge in practice. The two developments together place universities at the center of an administration drive to accelerate AI-led research while prompting debate on governance, data access, and the balance between institutional autonomy and national priorities.