Colleges are often the setting, and the target, of the nation’s most heated politics. Charlie Kirk’s work on campuses was one factor.
The University of California, Berkeley, told around 160 people that their names were in documents related to antisemitism complaints that were demanded by the Trump administration.
Democrats are calling for the creation of a state equivalent of the National Institutes of Health, but first state lawmakers and then voters would need to approve it.
See how the gunman who shot and killed Charlie Kirk evaded detection for hours, climbed a roof amid a crowd and quickly escaped after the shooting.
The New York Times examined video footage to better understand what was said during Mr. Kirk’s event at Utah Valley University.
It is usually the job of a president to unify the nation in moments of rupture and sorrow. But President Trump has led his supporters in doling out blame.
Gov. Spencer Cox, Republican of Utah, identified the suspect Tyler Robinson. Police arrested the 22-year-old about 250 miles from the Utah Valley University campus, where Charlie Kirk was fatally shot.
We Don’t Want Echo Chambers
Readers discuss the damage to America’s parks. Also: Racial profiling in immigrant sweeps; the 9/11 memorial; phones in the classroom.
Tras la difusión de las imágenes del asesinato de Kirk, millones de personas han visto el breve intercambio entre el activista político de derecha y un “tiktoker” liberal.
El gobernador de Utah, Spencer Cox, dijo que un familiar del sospechoso, Tyler Robinson, ayudó a entregarlo a las autoridades después de que Robinson indicara que había llevado a cabo el asesinato.
Several historically Black colleges and universities canceled classes and events on Friday after a series of threats. The F.B.I. said the calls were hoaxes.
As an Israeli professor began to speak, some attendees appeared to switch on their cameras and microphones and started yelling. Instead of their faces, they showed disturbing images.
The F.B.I. shared surveillance video of a man running across a roof near where Charlie Kirk was fatally shot at Utah Valley University.
The comments at a Duke University event this week have rankled student activists, who said they fostered a hostile environment on campus.
Las imágenes muestran a un hombre con una gorra de béisbol, gafas de sol oscuras y una camiseta negra de manga larga con una imagen que parece incluir, en parte, un dibujo de la bandera estadounidense.
The problem of protecting campus speakers with polarizing opinions has confounded universities around the country in recent years.
The grainy images show a man wearing a baseball cap, dark sunglasses and a black long-sleeve shirt with an image on it that appears to include, in part, a picture of the American flag.
La gente entre la multitud dijo que el disparo no fue muy fuerte y que no todos se dieron cuenta inmediatamente de lo que ocurría.
Kirk, de 31 años, fundador de un grupo activista juvenil de derecha, recibió un disparo mientras pronunciaba un discurso en la Universidad de Utah Valley.
The conservative activist had recently spoken at conferences in Asia. His message also resonated in Europe, and especially Britain, which has seen a rise in right-wing ideology.
Many winners of the annual Lasker Awards have gone on to win a Nobel Prize in medicine or other fields.
An assassin took aim at the American experiment itself.
Mr. Kirk, 31, the founder of a right-wing youth activist group, was shot while speaking at the university on Wednesday.
A mix of sympathy and blame proliferated in messages posted from figures across the political spectrum.
This is a moment to turn down the volume and reflect on our political culture.
Education Secretary Linda McMahon said the money supported programs that the administration believes unfairly support minority students.
Maps and photos show how the shooting that killed Charlie Kirk on a university campus in Utah unfolded.
Some politicians called for prayers, while some others immediately cast blame.
Witnesses in the crowd said that the shot was not very loud and that not everyone had immediately realized what was happening.
Kirk, un aliado cercano del presidente Trump, recibió un disparo en el cuello mientras hablaba en un campus universitario.
After a court victory, Harvard researchers were told some grants were being restored. But the battle over whether the government can halt the money is probably not over.
Chakaia Booker discusses printmaking and evolving old patterns.
Two administrators also lost their posts at Texas A&M, an example of how Republican policies meant to curb liberal ideas are reaching into university classrooms.
More New Yorkers say their sympathies lie with Palestinians rather than Israel in the long-running conflict in Gaza, according to a New York Times/Siena poll.
Israel and Iraq confirmed the release of Elizabeth Tsurkov, a Russian-Israeli graduate student at Princeton who was kidnapped in Iraq in 2023 by the militant group Kataib Hezbollah.
He investigated which city of Cuban immigrants might have created the celebrated sandwich, Tampa or Miami. His finding was not altogether surprising.
Far more shows on streaming services are being created by women, a new study found. That number on broadcast networks, though, remained stagnant.
The Times/Siena poll shows Mamdani would have an edge among likely voters, but Cuomo would lead among all registered voters.
Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee in the New York City mayoral race, is way ahead of his three rivals, but his lead would diminish considerably if the field shrank to a two-man race.
Results of a New York Times/Siena College poll of 1,284 registered voters in New York City conducted from Sept. 2 to 6, 2025.
Zohran Mamdani leads in the New York City mayoral race, with 46 percent among the likely electorate, according to a New York Times/Siena College poll conducted from Sept. 2 to 6, 2025.
Results of a New York Times/Siena College poll of 1,284 registered voters in New York City conducted from Sept. 2 to 6, 2025.
Harold Rashad Dabney III was arrested Sunday on two counts of capital murder in the death of Dr. Julie Schnuelle, 59, a veterinarian and mother whose body was found in a dog park on Saturday.
We’ve traveled far beyond political spin.
As China threatens to overtake U.S. leadership in science and technology, America has responded by sabotaging its own engines of progress.
No need to travel to the countryside for leaf peeping. Here’s a collection of North American urban walks that will immerse you in the colors of fall.
The group was to bestow the Sylvanus Thayer Award on the actor, but it said it was canceling the event to focus on preparing academy cadets for the future.
He was only 37 when he made a discovery that challenged the existing tenets of biology and led to an understanding of retroviruses and viruses, including H.I.V.,
Portuguese authorities released a highly anticipated preliminary report into the disaster, which killed 16 people this week.
The author and podcaster wants to apply her old ideas about vulnerability and empathy to the workplace.
One major reason is said to be an emerging divide within the administration over whether the current framework is too favorable to Harvard.
Gregory Washington, George Mason’s first Black president, runs a university that prizes diversity. That has made him a target of the Trump administration.
A recent ruling against the Trump administration’s federal funding cuts was a temporary win for Harvard. But a dozen other institutions already struck deals with the government involving millions of dollars in payments and commitments to prioritize causes championed by the president.
He and his classmates from a historically Black college in Greensboro, N.C., desegregated a Woolworth’s lunch counter in 1960, inspiring similar protests across the nation.
He was pivotal in discovering how sound waves are converted into signals that the brain can perceive as a whisper, a symphony or a thunderclap.
The federal form, used to determine financial aid, will be available to the public on Oct. 1. Technical glitches that delayed the form for the past two years are said to have been resolved.
“I think that A.I. is going to help break, in a sense, the university model that has anyway reached a certain kind of end game,” says the Princeton professor D. Graham Burnett.
Samuel Schwartz, a former city transportation official and longtime columnist writing about New York traffic, is donating $1 million to start a transportation research center at Hunter College.
It’s about more than figuring out the right or wrong answers to questions.
Brent Simpson is the first police officer known to have C.T.E. He showed signs of the disease in the last few years of his life.
Many students were cautiously hopeful after a judge said the Trump administration could not freeze research funding to the university. But they also had other things on their minds.
After the Trump administration criticized the use of what it called “racial proxies,” the group behind the SAT shut down a way for universities to identify promising applicants from disadvantaged communities.
A judge ruled that the Trump administration broke the law in canceling billions in federal funds for Harvard. Whether the money is returned matters for the rest of higher education.
Kevin Ashton found job satisfaction mentoring sorority sisters at the University of Nevada, Reno.
The president, Michael Schill, will step down after months of turbulence, including Trump administration cuts of $790 million to the university’s research funds.
He and his Jewish family lived across the street from the German leader in the 1930s. He later became a British professor and historian.
The Justice Department has challenged several states that offer in-state tuition to unauthorized immigrants, contending that the policies discriminate against U.S. citizens.
Higher education is in flux, and students are adjusting to a lot of changes.
The ruling was a victory for the university in its battle with President Trump, but the judge’s decision may not be the final word.
Harvard had sued the Trump administration in an effort to restore billions in research funds that the government canceled this spring.
What comes next?
The Atlantic coast leopard frog, first identified in an industrial section of Staten Island in 2012, is now on the state’s endangered species list. Conservation groups see an opportunity.
Dr. Shafik, who came under fire for her handling of pro-Palestinian campus protests last year, is now the chief economic adviser to Britain’s prime minister.
Our reporter hits the treadmill to understand how scientists study extreme heat.
The new, higher premium placed on college application essays that focus on racially traumatic experiences produces numerous undesirable consequences.
High-strength, California-grown marijuana is so popular in the U.K. that large quantities are being illegally smuggled on passenger flights, officials say.
He was a favorite of Coach Bear Bryant at the University of Alabama, then helped make the Cowboys “America’s Team.”
Members of the group offered on Telegram to draw armed officers to schools, malls and airports, though their claims are unverified. Such false emergency calls have disrupted campus life in recent days.
In her groundbreaking trilogy, “Women Scientists in America,” she told the stories of numerous accomplished but largely invisible women.
But Black student enrollment is lower at the two universities after years of turmoil in elite higher education.
Some sportswriters accused her of “deifying” Indiana’s irascible basketball coach. A professor of English, she also wrote about Marilyn Monroe and the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
Bill Belichick’s girlfriend has applied for numerous trademarks, including one seemingly critical of herself. Is she embracing the jokes?
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.
Pruebas sólidas sugieren que seguir este régimen, reducir las calorías y hacer ejercicio disminuye las probabilidades de desarrollar diabetes en las personas con factores de riesgo metabólico.
Scientists have found that a single tree can be home to a trillion microbial cells — an invisible ecosystem that is only beginning to be understood.
Como la IA ha hecho que el esfuerzo mental de escribir y resolver problemas sea opcional, las universidades necesitan nuevas formas de exigir el trabajo indispensable para aprender.
The president has praised Chinese students several times. But his policies are making it more difficult for students from China to come to the United States.
As students arrive on campus for fall classes, several universities have locked down their campuses after reports of mass shootings that turned out to be false.
The measures were almost entirely symbolic, yet laid bare the broader fault lines dividing and shaping the party nearly two years after the war began.
Peanut butter noodles, microwave Nutella cake and more one-pan wonders and no-cook recipes with super-short ingredient lists to save you a trip to the dining hall.
Since A.I. has made the mental effort of writing and problem solving optional, universities need new ways to require the work needed for learning.
The solution is deceptively simple.
Hundreds of sensors placed throughout New York City measure water as it rises, then send the data to an interactive map available to the public.
Strong evidence suggests that following the diet, cutting calories and exercising lowers the chances of developing diabetes for those with metabolic risk factors.
Take it from an eyewitness: Our colleges don’t deserve this.
The firm, which represents opponents of offshore wind, said it would complain to Brown’s federal and private funding sources.
As a fight over the future of elite higher education consumes university leaders and politicians, most college students live in a very different world with very different challenges.
While the university was able to strike a deal with the Trump administration, the national outlook for federal science funding remains bleak.
Volvamos a los viejos tiempos, cuando los estudiantes solo tenían celulares con tapa y aprendían más.
Harvard has sued, fighting the Trump administration’s demands. But the university has also enacted a host of items on the White House wish list.
Shore’s new book, “Early Work,” hints at the towering figure he would become in photography, a master of elegantly prosaic scenes.
The federal program supports universities with high numbers of Latino students. Trump officials said they wouldn’t defend it against a lawsuit, which could effectively end the program.
The Education Department said an investigation had found the public university and Gregory Washington, its first Black president, had supported diversity programs it views as discriminatory.
The historically Black university has faced the possibility of a Trump administration budget cut, and students were outraged over billing troubles.
For some cultures, the practice of cranial deformation may have offered individuals a path to privilege later in their lives.
The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression has long been a critic of progressive campus culture. Now it’s taking on new, and surprising, targets.
The report drew a large police response to the university’s campus northwest of Philadelphia, and students were told to shelter in place.
The false report of a gunman drew a large police response to the university’s campus northwest of Philadelphia, where freshmen and their parents were told to shelter in place.
A new review shows that the benefits of cardiovascular health extend from head to toe.
Let’s go back to the good old days when students had only flip phones and were learning more.
President Trump is getting universities, trading partners and law firms to agree to spend big on his terms, often to end fights he picked.
Two other centers focusing on cybersecurity and chemical, biological and nuclear threats would also be reduced, and the National Intelligence University would be eliminated.
The test is meant to filter out teachers who hold views “antithetical” to Oklahoma values.
Los estudiantes de algunos países no podrán ir a clase este otoño debido a la prohibición de entrar en EE. UU. Unos no consiguen citas para el visado. Otros simplemente tienen miedo.
Influencers are making money online by recommending dorm products and designs to families, who spend thousands of dollars on back-to-college shopping.
Students from some countries won’t make it to class this fall because of President Trump’s travel ban. Others can’t get visa appointments. Some are simply scared. Universities are panicking.
Political challenges to elite colleges have long been a feature of life in the United States. A 1963 book helps show us why.
Documentó la pobreza y las protestas de los años cincuenta y sesenta, y creó imágenes imborrables del Che Guevara y Gabriel García Márquez.
He documented poverty and protest in the 1950s and ’60s, and he created indelible images of Che Guevara and Gabriel García Márquez.
President Trump has personally stipulated that hefty financial penalties be part of agreements his administration is negotiating with the elite universities. Critics call it extortion.
With villages swept away and Pakistan’s largest city assailed by monsoon floods, climate change has brought a catastrophic new normal to the country.
After he was paralyzed in an accident, his use of marijuana for medical purposes led him to become one of the nation’s most influential cannabis activists.
In an annual tradition at the Pratt Institute, first-year students will get to know one another while walking from their campus across the Brooklyn Bridge.
The shanty boat was bound for New Orleans, but the destination mattered less than the challenges, chance encounters and lessons learned along the way.
The terms, which started as online slang, are expected to have staying power.
He was one of the relatively few Black Americans to reach the upper echelons of global finance. He was also a competitive sailor.
In arguing that language enforces the power imbalance between the sexes, she inspired an entire academic field.
As the Trump administration has publicly targeted elite universities, it has also quietly pursued funding cuts for the nation’s tribal colleges, which rely on federal dollars to operate.
Greer Jarret hizo 26 viajes para trazar las rutas que siguieron los navegantes en la era vikinga. A lo largo del trayecto descubrió rutas perdidas y puertos comerciales ocultos.
In a petition, alumni, faculty and members of the public asked Harvard to stand up to the White House. The school has signaled a willingness to pay $500 million to restore research funds.
Oregon Health & Science University said the couple’s donation would be the largest single gift to a higher-learning institution in the United States.
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.