Hacker News with Generative AI: Universities

University student targeted by Trump leaves the US (bbc.com)
A Cornell University graduate student who had his US visa revoked due to protest activities against Israel has chosen to leave the US rather than be deported.
Georgetown University researcher on student visa arrested and detained by ICE (cbsnews.com)
Washington — A Georgetown University researcher was detained by immigration authorities earlier this week amid the Trump administration's crackdown on activists across college campuses, according to court records and the Department of Homeland Security, which alleged he has "close connections" to a Hamas official.
Trump demands admissions overhaul and control of academic department at Columbia (pbs.org)
The Trump administration has delivered an extraordinary ultimatum to Columbia University, threatening to permanently end federal funding to the Ivy League school unless it cedes control of an international studies department and implements sweeping changes to other campus policies.
380M-year-old fossils dumped in landfill after college didn't pay UPS bill (nbcnews.com)
A professor filed a lawsuit against a New Jersey university claiming the school's negligence led to 380-million-year-old fossils ending up in a landfill in Nashville, Tennessee, last year.
Renowned US health research hub Johns Hopkins to slash 2k jobs (medicalxpress.com)
Prestigious US university Johns Hopkins said Thursday it will lay off more than 2,000 employees around the world in the aftermath of the Trump administration's massive reduction in foreign aid funds.
Yale Suspends Palestine Activist After AI Article Linked Her to Terrorism (gizmodo.com)
The dystopian future is here. Yale University has suspended a scholar in its law school after a Jewish news website that uses AI to produce articles called her a member of a terrorist group. It comes as the Trump administration has launched a relentless campaign to silence any speech sympathetic to the Palestinian cause.
Universities are facing big cuts to research funding (apnews.com)
Facing the potential loss of hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding, Duke University is preparing for the worst.
US universities curtail PhD admissions amid science funding cuts (nature.com)
Some universities across the United States are reducing or halting their PhD admissions because of federal-funding uncertainties stemming from actions taken by the administration of US President Donald Trump.
These universities have the most retracted scientific articles (nature.com)
A first-of-its-kind analysis by Nature reveals which institutions are retraction hotspots.
U. of Pittsburgh pauses Ph.D. admissions amid research funding uncertainty (wesa.fm)
Amid uncertainty about frozen research aid from the National Institutes of Health, the University of Pittsburgh has put its Ph.D. admissions on ice.
How Medical Research Cuts Would Hit Colleges and Hospitals in Every State (nytimes.com)
A proposal by the Trump administration to reduce the size of grants for institutions conducting medical research would have far-reaching effects, and not just for elite universities and the coastal states where many are located.
National Institutes of Health cuts support to universities (arstechnica.com)
Sudden and drastic change will make it hard for researchers to keep the lights on.
Northeastern's redesign of the CS curriculum (huntnewsnu.com)
On a university level, what makes for a good computer science curriculum?
'I received a first but felt tainted': inside the university AI cheating crisis (theguardian.com)
More than half of students are now using generative AI, casting a shadow over campuses as tutors and students turn on each other and hardworking learners are caught in the flak. Will Coldwell reports on a broken system
Universities enrolling foreign students with poor English, BBC finds (bbc.com)
Oxford Electric Bell (wikipedia.org)
The Oxford Electric Bell or Clarendon Dry Pile is an experimental electric bell, in particular a type of bell that uses the electrostatic clock principle that was set up in 1840 and which has run nearly continuously ever since.
Student rocket group shatters amateur space record (viterbischool.usc.edu)
Aftershock II, the latest rocket designed and built by the student-run USC Rocket Propulsion Lab (USCRPL) at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, has broken the international altitude record – reaching further into space than any non-governmental and non-commercial group has ever flown before.
Australia's top university to halt international student admissions next year (msn.com)
Universities are not just businesses, but an investment in future generations (nature.com)
Many UK universities are in a financial crisis. But the government is leaving them to flounder, treating higher education as a private-sector industry and research as a public investment.
Univ. of North Texas' body parts business: Cutting up and leasing out the poor (nbcnews.com)
The University of North Texas Health Science Center built a flourishing business using hundreds of unclaimed corpses. It suspended the program after NBC News exposed failures to treat the dead and their families with respect.
Elon Musk acquires the university formerly known as Stanford (stanforddaily.com)
This is MIT and yes, we have bananas (technologyreview.com)
Stanford's top disinformation research group collapses under pressure (washingtonpost.com)
MOOC – free courses from University of Helsinki (mooc.fi)
Stanford Follows Harvard, Yale in Reinstating Standardized Tests (bloomberg.com)
Puzzle made by the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange for the university quest (blogspot.com)
What went wrong with UniSuper and Google Cloud? (danielcompton.net)
No One Knows What Universities Are For (theatlantic.com)
NYU professors who defended vaping didn't disclose ties to Juul (statnews.com)
Texas A&M Qatar campus to close by 2028 (qatar.tamu.edu)