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Environmental Protection Agency officials cut a grant supporting wildfire-smoke mitigation research led by Marina Vance, telling the researcher the project was “no longer consistent” with agency...

Malcolm Gladwell urged prospective STEM students to avoid elite institutions like Harvard unless they can place in the top quarter of their class, arguing the risk of being a low‑performing...

New York Assemblymember Alex Bores called for broad adoption of cryptographic provenance standards (C2PA) to label media origin, arguing the method can make deepfakes a solvable...

A machine‑teaching pioneer argued enterprises must train AI agents like teams—structured roles, repeated practice, and evaluation—rather than expecting single models to generalize across complex...

Two new rankings-related releases reshaped the global MBA conversation this week. ShanghaiRanking’s subject list named Copenhagen Business School the top Business Administration program globally...

Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management reported a rebound in outcomes for the Class of 2025, with median total compensation climbing back to an all-time high. The school said median base...

New research shows a growing number of distressed student-loan borrowers are discharging debt through a streamlined bankruptcy process. The study found that borrowers using the simpler procedure...

A renewed public push to reconsider early-decision admissions surfaced this week after readers responded to an essay labeling the practice an unfair 'racket.' The commentary prompted a wave of...

An EPA decision to terminate a grant supporting wildfire-smoke health research interrupted an active project led by Marina Vance, a university-based investigator. Vance had been studying...

Policymakers and researchers escalated warnings about synthetic media this week, urging technical fixes and regulatory steps to blunt the deepfake threat on campuses and in public life. New York...

A new Vanguard analysis upended common narratives about AI-driven job destruction, finding that the roughly 100 occupations deemed most exposed to AI automation have outperformed others in job...

Greg Hart, a long-time Amazon executive, is translating lessons from Amazon leadership into Coursera’s push to scale workforce upskilling, particularly in generative AI. Hart told reporters he...

Management scholars published evidence this month that professionally run offsite retreats strengthen connections across organizations and can reshape working relationships in ways that matter for...

Jeffrey R. Holland, former president of Brigham Young University and a senior leader in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, died at 85, creating a vacancy that will affect both church...

Deepfake quality has reached a level that will reliably fool ordinary viewers in 2026, researchers say, raising urgent risks for campuses, campus elections and academic integrity. A computer...

Academic experiments show autonomous trading agents can converge on tacit collusion in simulated markets, prompting questions about how universities train and test AI before deployment. A...

Local zoning votes in Arizona and executive testimony at industry events show AI infrastructure is reshaping rural land use and straining supply chains critical to university research...

The Environmental Protection Agency pulled a grant supporting Marina Vance’s research into countering health impacts of wildfire smoke, with the agency saying the work is now “no longer...

A new study finds an increasing number of distressed student‑loan borrowers are successfully shedding debt through simplified bankruptcy processes, suggesting previously prohibitive legal barriers...

Author Malcolm Gladwell told a podcast audience that students pursuing STEM should avoid Harvard unless they can be in the top quarter of their class, arguing elite environments risk pushing some...