The Trump administration had said it would collect data from colleges to ensure compliance with a Supreme Court ruling ending affirmative action in admissions.
The White House’s attacks on academia and budget cuts for research have provided an opening for other countries to poach leading scientists.
We don’t have to travel to the moon to gain some of the insight that astronauts do.
The administration’s videos are possible only in a country that asks little from its people beyond their YouTube clicks.
A record number of student loan borrowers are in delinquency and default. Some are making the drastic decision to leave the country and abandon their loans.
A long stay in intensive care can bring physical, cognitive and mental health challenges that can take months or longer to resolve.
Physicians from 39 countries are being pushed out of U.S. hospitals as a policy blocks their ability to work.
New rules mean that parent PLUS loans have to be consolidated into a new loan by June 30 for parents to keep affordable payments. But the deadline is really earlier to allow time for processing.
A Connecticut high school said that it was aware of the Instagram posts and that antisemitism is “repugnant and antithetical to our values as a school.”
Jay Rothman, the president of the state university system, said he had received no explanation for why regents want to oust him.
Leon Botstein saved Bard from near ruin. Now, as an outside firm conducts a review, the campus is home to arguments about his legacy and future.
Trump officials have faced dozens of lawsuits over their aggressive efforts to force change in universities and school districts. Now Trump lawyers are taking schools to court.
The case is open-and-shut on the merits. But its procedural course still leaves plenty of room for Trump administration overreach.
Mr. Khalil, who is fighting his deportation, and Judge Bove were on opposite sides of President Trump’s crackdown on campus protesters when the judge was a Justice Department official.
Representative Julia Letlow of Louisiana, running to challenge Senator Bill Cassidy, is facing conservative blowback over remarks from 2020.
American woodcocks, also known as timberdoodles, are bopping and shimmying through the park, charming visitors during a pit stop on their northerly migration.
Part of a political dynasty, he led Ontario’s main progressive party, became Canada’s U.N. ambassador and campaigned against the spread of AIDS in Africa.
In all, 93 of the 460 academic programs at the university will be closed or paused. No students were majoring in 55 of the programs that are ending.
Un juez federal decidió que el gobierno de Trump estaba en su derecho de exigir a la universidad dicha información como parte de una investigación sobre antisemitismo. La universidad dijo que apelaría la sentencia.
Readers discuss the justices’ decision on gay conversion therapy. Also: An immigrant’s story; a list of Jews at Penn?
Gerald J. Pappert, a federal judge, affirms that Equal Employment Opportunity Commission was within its rights to demand that the University of Pennsylvania turn over information about Jews on campus.
The government’s effort to collect the names and phone numbers of Jewish people on campus as it investigates antisemitism has upset some people who worry about how the information will be used.
President Trump posted a video rendering that appeared to include elements generated by artificial intelligence of a skyscraper in Miami featuring what appeared to be Air Force One.
The drawings, now on display at Manhattan University, were found in a house in Westchester County.
La llegada de un buque a Cuba le dará el combustible que tanto necesita. También representa un cambio en los esfuerzos estadounidenses por bloquear los envíos de petróleo y presionar al gobierno cubano.
After a university in Tehran was struck during the war, Iranian leaders said that the outposts of U.S. schools were “legitimate targets.”
The ship’s arrival would bring Cuba some badly needed fuel. It also marks a shift from U.S. efforts to block oil shipments and pressure the Cuban government.
The teacher was taken to a hospital, and the student died at the scene, the authorities said.
After attacks on several Iranian campuses, Iranian forces warn they could target American universities in the region.
A nonprofit foundation donated $82 million worth of properties in Hudson, N.Y., to the school, which has provided few details about its plans.
A University of North Carolina program was intended to promote civil discourse and ideological diversity. Some of its early conservative supporters say it is doing the opposite.
Senator Bernie Sanders, speaking at a rally at Lehman College, lent his support to Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s effort to raise taxes on millionaires. The mayor was not present.
Mientras los funcionarios de Trump exigen cambios, la familia Castro reaparece en la escena política de Cuba. Algunos incluso se preguntan: ¿Podría alguno de ellos ser la “Delcy de Cuba”?
As Trump officials demand changes, Castro family members are suddenly popping up across Cuba’s political scene. Some even ask: Could one be the “Cuban Delcy?”
Jose Medina, who is accused of being in the country illegally, is charged with murder in the death of Sheridan Gorman, a freshman at Loyola University Chicago.
Dr. Abdul El-Sayed’s primary opponents criticized him for inviting Hasan Piker to campaign with him. Mr. Piker is a fierce critic of Israel.
In promoting its new album, the K-pop superstars looked back to a late-19th-century moment featuring the unofficial anthem Arirang for inspiration.
An experiment linking college students in Boston with retirees in Reno, Nev., aims to bridge a cross-generational divide and expand positive social interactions.
Their anger goes far beyond the recent rise of unemployment and the looming threat of A.I.
The Justice Department’s demands for admissions-related data from Stanford, Ohio State and the University of California, San Diego, represent a flex of federal power.
El rápido deterioro de las condiciones en hospitales y clínicas de toda Cuba está causando muertes evitables, según médicos cubanos.
A show at the Library for the Performing Arts examines the golden age of magic in New York City, from the 1870s to just before World War II.
Students and others are asking universities, including Harvard and Ohio State, to take down the names of high-profile donors with connections to Jeffrey Epstein. They have not done so yet.
Cuban health care was once the pride of the island. Now the U.S. oil blockade is upending even basic medical care.
A recipient of his profession’s prestigious Fields Medal, he devised an algorithm that helps solve mathematical “singularities.” It now permeates the field.
A union for about 950 full-time faculty members who are not on the tenure track said that 95 percent of its instructors would earn more than $100,000.
Mr. Chavez began organizing in San Jose, Calif., in the 1950s and once lived there. After revelations of sexual abuse by the labor leader, the city and his old neighborhood confront his legacy.
The debate would have featured six candidates, all white. The inclusion of a low-polling mayor drew scrutiny in particular.
A new satellite could transform how water is studied worldwide. But to help unlock its capabilities, scientists first needed to take critical measurements on a mountaintop.
The investigation into the crash that killed two pilots will include an examination of the black boxes.
The university said the flags broke a rule against hanging signs, a policy embraced by other campuses that cracked down on protests. Professors and others say such rules chill speech.
The inquiries target antisemitism and admissions policies. The university called it retaliation for refusing to give in to the administration’s demands.
About 950 full-time faculty members who are not on the tenure track walked out. The university told students that classes would continue.
Plus, which Western Conference team is getting shipped East?
In a new set of oral histories, David Plouffe, President Barack Obama’s political adviser, described how he urged Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. not to challenge Hillary Clinton for the nomination.
Sheridan Gorman, 18, was killed last week near Loyola University Chicago. The Trump administration has sought to highlight crimes committed by undocumented people in its deportation campaign.
Through Varsity Spirit, the company he established in 1974, he turned cheerleading into a multibillion-dollar juggernaut and exerted control over almost every aspect of it.
He helped discover cancer-causing genes. Later, as chancellor of the University of California, San Francisco, he led a major expansion.
Molenbeek was branded a hotbed of radicalization after the Paris and Brussels terrorist attacks of a decade ago. It is trying to reinvent itself amid new challenges.
While some Jewish students and faculty members have applauded the Trump administration’s renewed push against antisemitism, others believe the government has different motives.
We could make college accessible for all Americans, restore health care cuts and pretty much end the worst form of global hunger — and still have billions of dollars left over.
The removals followed a New York Times investigation that revealed Chavez sexually abused women and girls.
Agronomists at Washington State University are unveiling a new apple, the Sunflare, which they say tastes as good as their Cosmic Crisp but can withstand unpredictable weather.
New research suggests that a legendary 200-mile march by Harold Godwinson, the last Anglo-Saxon king of England, may have actually involved some ships.
His method of locating genes in human DNA allowed researchers to find disease-causing genes, and later to map the entire, sprawling human genome.
The California State University system joins a short list of universities fighting Trump orders in court. The Education Department has threatened to cut federal funds to San Jose State University.
The administration had spent months investigating the Ivy League school. The two sides had been in talks to negotiate a settlement.
The university has become more hers than his.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission sent a questionnaire to workers asking for detailed information about potential civil rights violations at the Ivy League school.
A closed-door White House event included news about the National Garden of American Heroes and an emphasis on the role of religion in the founding.
Schools have moved quickly to distance themselves from the labor leader after abuse allegations emerged. Still, many have careful procedures for weighing renamings and other changes.
En un nuevo estudio, los mieleros regentes silvestres se convirtieron en tutores vocales y enseñaron su canto desaparecido a aves de un programa de cría en cautividad.
Research from Poland adds to evidence from Latin American countries that compounds in used cigarette butts ward off parasites in bird nests.
There is more to the state than Chicago and its suburbs, even if that area makes up a large majority of the vote.
The public remarks from Chief Justice John Roberts were his first since President Trump excoriated the justices who ruled against his tariffs in harsh and personal terms.
In a new study, wild regent honeyeaters became vocal tutors, teaching their disappearing song to birds in a captive breeding program.
EE. UU. le ha dicho a Cuba que, para que se produzcan avances significativos en las negociaciones, el presidente Miguel Díaz-Canel debe dimitir, dijeron personas familiarizadas con las conversaciones.
After the University of Florida restricted the Republican organization from operating on campus, the group sued the university arguing its First Amendment rights were violated.
The United States has told Cuba that for meaningful progress to be made in negotiations, President Miguel Díaz-Canel must step down, said people familiar with the talks.
The president is approaching the war in Iran as if he’s selling another Trump product, the writer E.J. Dionne Jr. says on “The Opinions.” But “selling war is a very serious business,” he adds, unlike selling Trump Steaks or Trump University.
Leqaa Kordia, 33, had been held in a Texas facility, where she said her health had declined. She was arrested during a 2024 protest and then detained by ICE in March 2025.
Is saying “like” and “sort of” the equivalent of verbal bubble wrap? John McWhorter, an Opinion writer and a linguistics professor at Columbia, argues yes, because they soften the sharp edges of what we really mean. He explains the larger implications of the language we might not even realize we’re using.
Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s “The Silent Serenade,” written in the 1940s, was given its English-language, United States premiere by Mannes Opera.
Before humanity sent satellites, telescopes, humans and weapons into space, Robert Goddard experimented with the first liquid-fueled rocket on his aunt’s farm.
The global city under fire.
Harvard is the White House’s biggest target, but professors all over the country have been censoring themselves, avoiding provocative topics and rewriting grants.
At once, Mahmood Mamdani’s fame was eclipsed by his son’s. At the same time, the election of Zohran Mamdani has attracted new interest in his father’s work.
Before opening fire in a university classroom, the gunman asked people if they were there for a Reserve Officers Training Corps event, court documents said.
Lt. Col. Brandon Shah flew hundreds of combat missions as a war-zone helicopter pilot before being shot and killed in his Old Dominion University classroom by a radicalized military veteran.
A group of Democratic attorneys general had sued to overturn the Trump administration’s new policy that demanded the past seven years of student application data.
Wait, that’s not the real James Talarico …
In 1964, he was one of the first three African Americans to compete in wrestling at the Games. He went on to have a distinguished coaching career.
Readers respond to a guest essay about the Paul Thomas Anderson movie “One Battle After Another” by the daughter of two Weatherman. Also: Will we be around to unearth a time capsule?
The widening war in the Mideast is making life more expensive. Experts shared some simple cost-cutting tips.
Will Mair, who studies aging, lost almost all his research funds when the White House cracked down on Harvard. He was wholly unprepared for the upheaval that followed.
The authorities are investigating the shooting at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Va., as an act of terrorism.
As a historian and diplomat, he gave intellectual shape to his people and made sure that they played a role in negotiating their future.
As a Villanova student, he captured the 1,500-meter event in the 1956 Games in Melbourne. No Irish athlete since then has won another Olympic gold medal in track and field.
The shooter opened fire in Constant Hall, a building on the campus in Norfolk, Va. It was not clear what led to the shooting.
The award, one of the most prestigious in the field of American history, honors “scope, significance, depth of research and richness of interpretation.”
Erin McGuire ran a research network that studied how to get healthy food to marginalized populations around the world.
Plus, the growing demand for higher education to prove its value.
The Trump administration wants colleges and universities to share information about the race and gender of applicants to make sure they’re not using racial preferences in admissions.
The images of a father known as Renty and his daughter Delia will be honored today in a ceremony by their new steward, a museum in South Carolina.
Trump’s agenda for the high-stakes meeting remains unclear to Beijing, Chinese analysts say, while American executives say they haven’t been invited along.
New York’s dentists are aging, and a “retirement cliff” has left a shortage of people in the job.
Troy Closson, who reports on education at The Times, discusses how he covers the largest school system in the country.
Un nuevo estudio ha llegado a la conclusión de que los loros vivos eran objeto de comercio a lo largo y ancho de los Andes, debido a su plumaje.
Two doctors affiliated with the university and NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital stepped down after an external report found that the administrators mishandled allegations of abuse against Robert Hadden.
Scientists studied centuries-old bird feathers from an ancient tomb on the coast, and then traced the origins back to the Amazon.
A new legal filing accused Mr. Martin, a senior Justice Department official, of an unethical pressure campaign against Georgetown University.
The Trump administration, which said it is investigating harassment, sued the University of Pennsylvania after it refused a request to provide information about Jewish students and staff.
Los kakapos, que son solitarios, no vuelan y pueden vivir tanto como los humanos, solo se encuentran en Nueva Zelanda. Se alimentan del fruto del árbol rimu.
For decades, he wrote a syndicated column in The Washington Post promoting nonviolence. That became the subject of a course he taught for nearly 40 years.
The president, Walter Carter Jr., said he “made a mistake in allowing inappropriate access to Ohio State leadership.”
As President Trump prepares to close Washington’s premier performing arts venue for two years, loyal patrons wonder where they’ll get their cultural fix.
President Trump made Mr. Khalil the face of his crackdown on pro-Palestinian protests. Mr. Khalil is now living with uncertainty as the courts consider his deportation.
Durante las dos últimas décadas, Bolivia chocó a menudo con EE. UU. Un giro a la derecha está reorientando al presidente Rodrigo Paz hacia Washington.
For the past two decades, Bolivia resisted U.S. influence. A rightward shift is reorienting the country’s president toward Washington.
For ecologists, the Covid-19 pandemic has presented a remarkable natural experiment in what can happen to wild animals when humans stay home.
Three other rhesus monkeys were still on the loose as of Wednesday after the truck carrying them rolled over on a highway in Mississippi, law enforcement officials said.
The vaccines are proven to help protect pregnant women and their babies. But regulatory chaos and mixed messaging have made for a confusing landscape.
President Trump has used his position of authority to dole out flawed medical advice dating back to his first term, when he mused about injecting bleach to kill off the coronavirus.
The agency’s fall recommendations underscore the goals of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to limit access to the vaccines, which he has long opposed.
Politicians used to care how much students learn. Now, to find a defense of educational excellence, we have to look beyond politics.
El fármaco se ha convertido en una especie de símbolo de resistencia a lo que algunos en el movimiento MAGA describen como una élite corrupta.
Five years after the pandemic began, interest in the anti-parasitic drug is rising again as right-wing influencers promote it — and spread misinformation about it.
Dozens of medical and scientific studies are ending or at risk of ending, leaving researchers scrambling to find alternative funding.
The society faced financial challenges that were exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic. Its nearly 600,000 items stretch back before the Gold Rush.
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.