A couple of weeks ago, the University of Florida Police Department responded to a situation involving freedom of speech. On a college campus, that's hardly surprising.

The Association of American Universities today announced that Dartmouth College; the University of California, Santa Cruz; and the University of Utah have joined the association.

President Coleman issued a statement about the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s recent policy requiring international students to take in-person classes to keep their visa status.

Infusions of antibody-laden blood have been used with reported success in prior outbreaks, including the SARS epidemic and the 1918 flu pandemic

As thousands protest President Trump's executive order temporarily restricting travel and immigration to the U.S. by foreign nationals from seven Middle Eastern countries, the academic world is...

University of Florida neuroscientists have validated a potential pathway to halt the progression of Alzheimer’s disease.

Coaches and players stand with their colleagues at America's leading research universities as they take the fight to #COVID19 in labs and hospitals across the country #ProudToBeOnTheirTeam

Christopher Dade, a 2014 graduate of Logan-Rogersville High, to spend one year studying in Ireland as part of prestigious program.

George H. W. Bush’s extraordinary relationship with Texas A&M University has produced a generation of public servants who graduated from the Bush School of Government and Public Service before...

The first complete bee census, led by Michigan State University scientists, confirmed a new species and revealed that the actual number of bee species in Michigan exceeded earlier estimates.

President Mary Sue Coleman expresses that she is "glad that the overwhelming outcry from America’s leading research universities, scientific research organizations, the business community, and others...

The shocking violence that unfolded today at the United States Capitol is nothing less than an attempted coup, and every American should be horrified and humiliated by what is happening in the very...

Harvard and the University of Michigan have formed two partnerships designed to encourage economic opportunity in Detroit and to fight the national scourge of opioid addiction.

AAU President Mary Sue Coleman condemns the administration's decision to end Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and calls for Congress to pass a permanent solution.

Members of the Texas A&M Veterinary Emergency Team (VET) and AgriLife Extension Service worked at the Del Oro Emergency Animal Shelter in Oroville, California, helping care for animals affected by...

A Michigan State University scientist will help create artificial “brains” for tiny spacecraft that will mine asteroids between Mars and Jupiter, as part of NASA’s Small Spacecraft Technology Program.

A new MIT study proposes that laser technology on Earth could be fashioned into something of a planetary porch light — a beacon strong enough to attract extraterrestrial intelligence from as far as...

A team of scientists at Stony Brook University, Caltech, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology has found a way for the first time to detect multiple tones of a black hole ringing like a bell —...

Researchers have found that chemotherapy treatments at specific times of day could hold the key to novel therapies for glioblastoma, the most prevalent type of brain cancer in adults.

To make higher education more affordable, UT Austin is increasing its financial aid commitment to students from low- and middle-income families through the Texas Advance Commitment.

University of Missouri researchers have unveiled a new three-dimensional model of the skeletal muscles responsible for bird flight provides the most comprehensive and detailed picture of anatomy to...

Why are graduate students important? We impact so many lives through instruction and research. Tell your legislators to #ReworkTheReform and make sure tuitio...

Several proposed tax cuts hurt grad students. Scientific research will suffer too.

A team at the University of Pittsburgh has creates an engineered, scaffold-based heart valve replacement that relies on internal tissue growth.

Michigan State University scientists are testing a promising drug that may stop a gene associated with obesity from triggering breast and lung cancer, as well as prevent these cancers from growing.

The Senate tax reform measure will hurt hardworking students and their families, weaken our scientific enterprise, and drastically increase our national debt.

After lightning struck a tree, a University of South Florida professor discovered the formation of a new phosphorus material.

AAU President Coleman calls on Congress to lift the Dickey Amendment and allow research into gun violence. "Each day that we fail to devise a constructive path forward, for each day we fail to act,...

AAU announces the launch of its PhD Education Initiative, a grant-funded program aimed at changing the culture surrounding doctoral education.

UF researchers are working on a simple, paper-based system that would make it possible to test for the novel coronavirus in your own home.

The administration’s proposed FY19 budget would cripple our nation’s position as a global science and technology leader and greatly erode the longstanding government-university partnership that...

There's a new probe on Mars. After Monday's tricky landing, NASA's InSight spacecraft is to deploy a sensitive seismometer and temperature probe to let scientists explore the planet's interior.

George P. Smith wins 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

A trio of University of Southern California researchers has unlocked secrets about an engineered protein receptor known as CAR that makes cancer-fighting T cells more effective.

Two University of Florida sea turtle conservation biologists and 30 Florida Keys fishers teamed up to clear debris from an important sea turtle habitat in the Florida Keys National Wildlife Refuge.

Indiana University researchers have created a new tool to observe living cells in real time under a microscope. It could contribute to the search for new antibacterial drugs.

Kent Fuchs, president of the University of Florida, and Mariana Castro, a UF senior majoring in biology, urge policymakers to allow undocumented young Americans protected by the Deferred Action for...

“Citrus Under Protective Screens,” or CUPS, can help keep away a pin-head-sized insect that causes citrus greening, University of Florida scientists say.

A University of Southern California team finds six out of 11 lymphoma patients who received a commonly used dose of the improved CAR T-cell therapy went into complete remission.

President Biden has taken laudable action on immigration reform – but Congress must act too, writes AAU President Barbara R. Snyder

For the next six months, Texas A&M meteorology students will be helping NOAA collect important atmospheric sciences data when severe weather strikes in Texas.

35 higher education associations sent a letter to President Trump strongly urging the administration to ensure that DACA continues to remain in effect until a longer term solution can be put in place.

AAU presidents and chancellors urge Congress to enact a permanent legal solution for the nearly 800,000 young unauthorized immigrants participating in DACA.

Two University of Florida Health researchers have made a discovery that could provide a novel way to target the brain deterioration associated with amyloid…

Michigan State University physicians have found that vitamin D, if taken for at least three years, could help cancer patients live longer.

Scientists have grown plants in soil from the moon, a first in human history and a milestone in lunar and space exploration.

New research from the lab of Cedric Feschotte in CALS investigates how genetic elements called transposons, or “jumping genes,” are added into the mix during evolution to assemble new genes.

A University of South Florida anthropologist has uncovered the first ancient DNA from the Swahili Civilization, prosperous trading states along the coast of East Africa dating back to the 7th century.

Princeton cancer researchers Mark Esposito and Yibin Kang discovered a new, still-unnamed organelle that plays a role in bone metastasis and is formed via liquid-liquid phase separation — when liquid...