Higher Education News and Press Releases

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Knight Foundation Invests Over $6 million in East San José with Historic Grant for La Placita at Mexican Heritage Plaza: 10/2/2025 9:34:58 AM; The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation announced a historic investment of over $6 million to support La Placita, a transformative community development project in East San José.
MIT cognitive scientists reveal why some sentences stand out from others: 10/1/2025 9:16:08 AM; “You still had to prove yourself.” “Every cloud has a blue lining!” Which of those sentences are you most likely to remember a few minutes from now? If you guessed the second, you’re probably correct.
Mayank Golechha Wins Viasat: Space for Good India Challenge 2025 with Superconducting Electromagnetic Rings in Space Project: 9/30/2025 6:46:07 AM; Viasat Inc., a global leader in satellite communications, announced Mayank Golechha from BITS Pilani as the winner of its India edition of the Viasat: Space for Good 2025 initiative, a groundbreaking STEM innovation challenge for students. Bhoomi Raiyani from Nirma University and Arunteja Jarupula from IIT Kanpur were the runners-up in this highly competitive challenge.
Improving the workplace of the future: 9/24/2025 11:22:05 AM; Whitney Zhang ’21 believes in the importance of valuing workers regardless of where they fit into an organizational chart. Zhang is a PhD student in MIT’s Department of Economics studying labor economics.
University of Waterloo: A catalyst for growth: 9/24/2025 11:00:37 AM; The University of Waterloo is recognized for its rigorous research, entrepreneurial spirit and technological impact. It’s part of a thriving regional ecosystem that has recently been recognized as a leader in North America in the annual Scoring Tech Talent 2025 report released by CBRE.
Rockfield and Ardian secure €550 million in green financing for pan-European student accommodation strategy: 9/24/2025 10:56:00 AM; Rockfield Real Estate, a vertically integrated European residential platform, and Ardian, a leading global private investment company, have jointly successfully completed €550 million in green financing to support their pan-European strategy for Purpose-Built Student Accommodation (PBSA).
Even black holes have bad hair days: 9/17/2025 5:47:24 AM; The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration has unveiled new, detailed images of M87*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy M87, that reveal a dynamic environment with changing polarization patterns near the black hole.
MIT geologists discover where energy goes during an earthquake: 9/17/2025 5:33:10 AM; The ground-shaking that an earthquake generates is only a fraction of the total energy that a quake releases. A quake can also generate a flash of heat, along with a domino-like fracturing of underground rocks.
NSF invests $6.2 million in EPSCoR Research Fellows: 9/17/2025 5:18:38 AM; The U.S. National Science Foundation is investing $6.2 million in 24 exceptional researchers who have been selected as NSF Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) Research Fellows.
From classroom to hangar: first KLM cleared for departure: 9/12/2025 3:28:58 AM; The official launch of the very first KLM class. In collaboration with the ROC of Amsterdam, KLM is welcoming sixteen motivated second-year students from the Aviation Technology program into an innovative and accelerated learning track.
UKRI announces first UK-wide birth cohort study in 25 years: 9/11/2025 8:45:56 AM; The £42.8 million Generation New Era birth cohort study will create a comprehensive picture of early childhood in all four nations of the UK. The study is funded by the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Infrastructure Fund and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).
Huawei Shares Industrial Challenges at the 2025 ICPC World Finals: 9/10/2025 8:32:19 AM; The St. Petersburg State University team has won the 2025 ICPC World Championship at the 49th Annual International Collegiate Programming Contest World Finals.140 elite problem-solving teams from over 50 countries across six continents participated in the event at the Baku Convention Center, in Azerbaijan’s capital.
NASA Launches 2026 Lunabotics Challenge: 9/8/2025 11:24:43 AM; As college students across the country embark upon the academic year, NASA is giving them something else to look forward to – the agency’s 2026 Lunabotics Challenge.
NSF announces funding to establish the National AI Research Resource Operations Center: 9/4/2025 4:29:10 AM; The U.S. National Science Foundation announced a new solicitation to establish a National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource Operations Center (NAIRR-OC).
3 Questions: The pros and cons of synthetic data in AI: 9/4/2025 4:18:11 AM; Synthetic data are artificially generated by algorithms to mimic the statistical properties of actual data, without containing any information from real-world sources.