Tras años en la industria farmacéutica, un químico cambió de rumbo para ayudar a salvar a los monstruos de Gila, la especie que hizo posible el popular fármaco para adelgazar.
Confusion has ensued about the future of programs and research supporting people with disabilities as a result of President Trump’s executive order.
Mino Lora, who co-founded the People’s Theatre with her husband, has a double breakfast, a dance break and a bilingual reading session to wrap up her night.
Using an arcane law, officials have effectively delayed funding from the National Institutes of Health, leaving medical studies in jeopardy.
Fueling a 1.7 percent decline on Friday was an unexpected drop in the University of Michigan’s consumer sentiment index, as Americans worried about stubborn inflation.
A federal judge in Massachusetts indicated she would move quickly to consider a more lasting injunction after hearing a laundry list of potential adverse effects of the Trump administration move to cut billions in funding.
The cluster of medical facilities in the city around Emory University and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention carry prestige. They feel under attack.
Photos, scripts, hate mail and other artifacts donated by Lorne Michaels trace the show’s path from idea to institution.
A Democrat, he became a powerful voice on national intelligence in the Senate before leaving to become president of the University of Oklahoma.
He took a dry topic and made it entertaining, capturing the attention of policymakers and influencing the way cities are built.
Readers discuss developments involving the U.S., Russia, Ukraine and Europe. Also: The Republican attack on higher education; the Eric Adams case.
The leader of the national organization said that the university chapter’s president had not been authorized to speak with Vanity Fair for a profile in which she said President Trump’s youngest son was “sort of like an oddity on campus.”
A Columbia microbiologist, he popularized “vertical farming” — raising crops in tall buildings — to remediate climate change and feed more people.
The department’s Office for Civil Rights warned that it would penalize schools that consider race in scholarships, hiring and an array of other activities.
A darling of the American right, Pierre Poilievre, the Conservative leader, is facing an electorate worried about Trump’s vow to annex Canada.
At a conference in Boston, the nation’s scientists commiserated and strategized as funding cuts and federal layoffs throw their world into turmoil.
After years in Big Pharma, a chemist pivoted to help save the species that made Ozempic possible.
When the former team doctor for Penn State football sued for wrongful termination, the case offered a rare look into coaches interfering with medical advice.
Heart disease is more common in people over 65, but treatments are better than ever. That can complicate decision-making for older heart patients.
An increasingly influential group of conservative scholars has some drastic ideas about the president’s power.
By watching the brain process information, she discovered that a specific region plays a key role in spatial navigation — and that it can be strengthened like a muscle.
The administration’s war on universities defies rational self-interest.
Changes to a key funding formula will reduce research grants at hospitals and universities by billions — and may discourage future research.
We all need an occasional chance to focus on the untamed, and remind ourselves that we are a part of it. That might go double for journalists.
Some universities are scrubbing websites and canceling events to comply with executive orders targeting diversity efforts. Other schools are promising to resist.
During a Senate confirmation hearing, President Trump’s pick for education secretary spoke about her priorities for the department, which the White House has discussed closing.
Danielle R. Sassoon, Manhattan’s interim U.S. attorney, built a life on conservative values and amassed a daunting resume. On Thursday, she took a stand against the Justice Department where she had made her career.
His clear prose, illuminating data and novel arguments, transformed debates around issues like public education and welfare reform.
The author of “The Joy Luck Club” once vowed to have her papers destroyed after her death. Now they are going to the University of California, Berkeley.
Even as they praise the president’s unilateral actions to slash federal spending, G.O.P. lawmakers have quietly moved to seek carve outs or exemptions for their own constituents.
Nearly 200,000 students in Philadelphia’s schools will be free to attend the public celebration on Friday of the Eagles’ Super Bowl victory.
The federal order temporarily halts the Trump administration’s plans to slash $4 billion in overhead costs for research at universities and medical centers into diseases like cancer.
Think tanks and universities have helped expose problematic Chinese business practices. Now, those businesses are accusing them of defamation.
Who needs N.I.H. grants? A lot of red-state universities, for one.
Amid the turmoil and controversies of President Trump’s opening weeks, Democrats see an opening with working-class voters wooed by Mr. Trump’s movement.
China produces a vast number of STEM graduates, but it hasn’t been known for innovation. Cultural and political factors may help explain why.
President Trump’s executive order is altering scientific exploration across a broad swath of fields, even beyond government agencies, researchers say.
President Trump’s executive order threatening hospitals’ funding if they provide gender transition care for youth has caused chaos in the transgender health landscape.
Grants from the National Institutes of Health come with additional money for overhead. A planned $4 billion cut would leave colleges with large budget gaps.
In the latest episode of “On the Job,” Priya Krishna visited Bill Freeman, who brings care and finesse to patients’ meals at a Pittsburgh hospital.
West Point leaders complied with President Trump’s D.E.I. ban by ending a dozen student clubs. Critics say the move contradicts decades of efforts to diversify the nation’s fighting force.
The founder of Mothers Against College Antisemitism advised the group’s over 61,000 followers to take advantage of a new executive order allowing the deportation of Hamas supporters.
Three new investigations announced on Thursday came after President Trump ordered federal agencies to help bar transgender women and girls from female sports teams.
The decision, effective immediately, came a day after President Trump signed an order barring transgender girls and women from playing in women’s sports at federally funded educational institutions.
At least three people in three states have recently been charged with pretending to be immigration agents, the authorities said.
He demonstrated that fascism had its own intellectual roots and showed how ideas, theories and an antisemitic “ethos” influenced German culture and policymaking.
The military academy ordered the closure of a dozen clubs for students affiliated with its Diversity, Equity and Inclusion office.
He marshaled epidemiological research to press for changes in drug policy, alternatives to prison and needle-exchange programs to slow the spread of AIDS.
What I learned at my first-ever Duke-U.N.C. basketball game.
Lisa Streich, an artist on the rise who has found success in Europe, is having a rare American showcase this week in New York.
A video welcoming students to Leah Barlow’s African American studies course inspired Hillmantok, a virtual university of free TikTok lectures from Black academics and experts.
Efforts by the administration to cut diversity efforts and foreign aid have upended campuses. But many university leaders seem wary of provoking a president who has glorified retribution.
New York Police Department supervisors failed to rein in unlawful stops, frisks and searches by anti-crime units in 2023, a monitor said in a new report.
Washington makes money available to the states to help young people with disabilities enter the work force. New Jersey has the worst record of helping connect families with such help.
The state’s elite campuses, prohibited from using race-based admissions for decades, are now admitting more Black and Hispanic students. A new group is suing, arguing the university system is cheating.
A White House executive order threatened to pull federal funding from hospitals that provide gender-affirming care for trans youths. But not providing the care could violate state law, Letitia James said in a letter on Monday.
Many fire victims are eager to clear their home sites and move on to rebuilding. The big question is when.
State TV had previously largely ignored the demonstrations against President Aleksandar Vucic, but now it is putting a spotlight on the rallies.
The university spent $7 million to transform the building to limit energy usage and costs, and boost the satisfaction of students.
The hospital canceled their appointments the same week an executive order from President Trump threatened to punish doctors and hospitals for offering gender-affirming care.
H.B.C.U. bands have been part of the festivities since the first halftime show. This year, Southern University’s “Human Jukebox” will perform before the national anthem.
The session, which left nine players hospitalized, was run by a person who lacked credentials, a review commissioned by the university found.
President Trump’s decision to pardon Jan. 6 rioters is deeply unpopular, though he has a slightly positive approval rating so far.
She transformed nursing by making it an area of clinical practice and research and recasting nurses as colleagues of doctors, not assistants.
An executive order signed this week would push colleges and universities to combat antisemitism specifically by monitoring and reporting international students.
Perry took on misconceptions about the South (and won the National Book Award) with “South to America.” In “Black in Blues” she continues to challenge perceptions, using the color blue to examine notions of Blackness.
The executive order was among several the president signed meant to steer American schools and universities to adopt Republican priorities, such as restricting how schools discuss racism and gender issues.
A prizewinning historian, he, along and his wife, Abigail, was a conservative opponent of racial preferences, favoring school choice and voucher programs instead.
Universities are hiring lobbyists connected to Republicans and opening offices in Washington to argue their causes amid threats to funding.
The University of Tennessee threatened to expel Kimberly Diei over posts the school said were inappropriate. She sued on First Amendment grounds.
Silence often takes courage. But it can also be a reminder that the business of business is business.
The Trump administration sought to pause federal dollars to some grantees as it tries to uproot policies like diversity, equity and inclusion. Schools and universities worried important programs could be halted.
The society faced financial challenges that were exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic. Its nearly 600,000 items stretch back before the Gold Rush.
State university officials began the effort in response to social media outrage over test questions about terrorism. The effort has infuriated professors.
The idea of offering a degree in sports has gained momentum now that college athletes can be paid. Now Nike is joining some academics in pushing for it to become a reality.
As Myanmar’s civil war heads into a fifth year, anti-junta forces are opening universities and colleges as part of their pursuit of a federal democracy.
The administration is trying to assert political control over American higher education.
Readers respond to a guest essay by a recent college graduate. Also: New York City’s new outdoor dining program; how immigrants built America.
A substantial number of Republican voters are losing faith in science.
Millions of people are overdue on their federal loans or still have them paused — and court rulings keep upending collection efforts.
Two new studies suggest that the largest single federal investment in U.S. schools improved student test scores, but only modestly.
We asked voters for the one thing they remembered most about the Trump era. Few of them cited major events like the pandemic and Jan. 6.
According to a think tank’s analysis, another private college would attract the young talent that helps the city’s economy.
Two readers call for more federal funding for care of the sick and the elderly. Also: Data on drivers; Covid lessons; diversity in college admissions.
People with long Covid symptoms scored slightly lower on a cognitive test than people who had recovered. But long Covid patients who eventually got better scored as well as those whose symptoms did not last long.
In the Panamanian rainforest, scientists found the first known plant species to transform decaying tissue into a new source of nutrients.
Officials said some services would be transferred from University Hospital at Downstate to nearby facilities, and others, including primary care, could be expanded.
A new study found that California schools got positive results from a targeted investment in the science of reading — even with the challenges of pandemic recovery.
The surge in offerings is a response to the pandemic, which revealed glaring income inequality, as well as inflation and the resumption of student loan payments, an expert said.
Scientists doing “gain-of-function” research said that heightened fears of lab leaks are stalling studies that could thwart the next pandemic virus.
Readers react to a guest essay by educators at Stanford. Also: The new Senate dress code; Ron DeSantis and vaccines.
Readers discuss the decline in theater subscribers after the pandemic. Also: Northern Ireland; food allergies; a Covid playmate; anti-China bias.
Pulse oximeters measuring oxygen in the blood often inflated the levels for dark-skinned Covid patients, who then experienced delayed care or an increased risk of hospital readmission, researchers found.
Over the years, Mr. DeSantis embraced and exploited his Ivy League credentials. Now he is reframing his experiences at Yale and Harvard to wage a vengeful political war.
Dr. Fauci was the federal government’s top infectious disease expert for decades, and helped steer the U.S. response to Covid-19.
Dr. Jha, who oversaw the Biden administration’s pandemic response as it wound down, will return to his post as dean of the School of Public Health at Brown University.
The legislation would prevent President Biden from issuing another last-minute extension on the payments beyond the end of the summer.
Dr. Franklin and giving credit to women for their scientific contributions. Also: New College of Florida; Black unemployment; housing solutions; Covid risks.
Moderna has paid $400 million to the government for a chemical technique key to its vaccine. But the parties are still locked in a high-stakes dispute over a different patent.
Most Americans think they know the story of the pandemic. But when a writer immersed himself in a Covid oral-history project, he realized how much we’re still missing.
Readers react to an editorial urging employers to consider skills and experience, not just degrees. Also: Long Covid; Trump, RINO; online romance scams.
Learning delays and regressions were most severe in developing countries and among children from low-income backgrounds. And students still haven’t caught up.
Dr. David A. Kessler took over Operation Warp Speed when President Biden entered office, and his departure signals the end of the program.
Family members and health care workers should take precautions, experts said.
We are going about education reform all wrong.
A sluggish economy continues to leave many young people unemployed, with few job prospects or hopes to tap into the rising incomes their parents enjoyed during boom times.
Plus, Iran abolishes the morality police and Russia vows to defy an oil price cap.
The justices left in place an injunction blocking the Biden administration’s authority to forgive up to $20,000 in debt per borrower.
In a country where protests are swiftly quashed, many who gathered to voice their discontent — under the watchful eye of the police — were uncertain about how far to go.
In a country where the authorities have little tolerance for open dissent, demonstrators against Covid restrictions have turned to more subtle methods.
Hospital-at-home care is an increasingly common option, and it is often a safer one for older adults. But the future of the approach depends on federal action.
For decades, smaller “safety net” hospitals like Wyckoff Heights Medical Center, in Brooklyn, have been losing money and are under pressure to close. But the pandemic has shown just how needed they are.
El coronavirus lleva dos años perturbando la vida social. Un estudio reciente sugiere que ahora somos menos extrovertidos, creativos, afables y meticulosos, sobre todo los jóvenes.
Students missed a lot of high school instruction. Now many are behind, especially in math, and getting that degree could be harder.
For more than two years, Covid disrupted social rituals and rites of passage. Now a recent study suggests we have become less extroverted, creative, agreeable and conscientious. The declines in some traits were sharper among young people.
Mouse experiments at Boston University have spotlighted an ambiguous U.S. policy for research on potentially dangerous pathogens.
She was budget director in Albany and “was one of the unsung heroes” in helping to shape the pandemic response as a deputy mayor under Bill de Blasio.
As school began this year, we sent reporters to find out how much — or how little — has changed since the pandemic changed everything.
The massive expansion of online higher education created a worldwide laboratory to finally assess its value and its future.
Maitland Jones, un profesor respetado, defendió sus estándares. Pero los estudiantes hicieron un reclamo y la universidad lo despidió.
Maitland Jones Jr., a respected professor, defended his standards. But students started a petition, and the university dismissed him.
While no definitive statistics exist, doctors say Mr. Lewitinn, a retired Manhattan store owner, likely remained on the device longer than any other Covid patient.
A federal judge said Cleveland State University violated the Fourth Amendment when it used software to scan a student’s bedroom, a practice that has grown during the Covid-19 pandemic.
For an article on wastewater disease surveillance, Times journalists descended underground to look inside a New York City sewage pipe.
Según los expertos, los niños no tienen riesgo alto de infección. Pero ofrecen consejos para cuidar a todos en el regreso a clases, desde los más pequeños hasta los universitarios.
En Inglaterra, unos artistas encendieron una estructura en llamas. En la costa de Jersey, se grabaron nombres en conchas y rocas. Con más de seis millones de muertos, los monumentos conmemorativos han ido evolucionando.
Experts say children are not at a high risk of infection. But they have advice to keep everyone — from toddlers to college kids — safe.
Here’s how a scrappy team of scientists, public health experts and plumbers is embracing wastewater surveillance as the future of disease tracking.
In Britain, artists lit a structure aflame. At the Jersey Shore, names were carved on shells and rocks. With more than six million dead, memorials have evolved along the way.
Russia looks to Africa.
Dr. Lekshmi Santhosh parses what research has illuminated about long Covid, and what questions remain.
Jonathan Malesic responds to readers concerned about the breakdown in college students’ learning since Covid.
A generation of students may be weighing the value of college versus its cost, questioning whether college is still the ticket to the middle class.
The moves are a sign that while the academic year may be coming to a close, the pandemic is still not.
Readers discuss the current malaise among many college students. Also: The Oklahoma abortion ban; stopping gun violence; remote work and the climate.
Plus climate’s role in Australia’s upcoming election and a Covid-19 protest at Peking University.
The prime minister’s rules kept transmission at bay for two years, and by the time the highly infectious Omicron variant hit, the vast majority of New Zealand’s population had been vaccinated.
Readers ponder an impending horrible milestone. Also: Grief in our times; college debt; policies and public opinion; students’ letters.
Late assignments, failed tests, sleeping in class: Welcome to the pandemic-era university.
The predominantly Black college in Illinois will cease operations Friday after 157 years, having failed to raise millions to recover from the pandemic and a cyberattack that originated in Iran.