Higher Education

Both states are leveraging digital platforms to centralize job prospects, skills data and educational opportunities in the hopes of creating strong talent pipelines to address job access, training and education barriers for residents.

A University of Nebraska student invented an app that helped decipher the writing on ancient papyrus unearthed from volcanic ash, exemplifying what might come of a tech-savvy generation open to collaboration.

Startup companies looking to make inroads in the U.S. education market are eligible for $100,000 and free training under the new AWS Education Accelerator initiative. The application deadline is Nov. 17.

California is set to become the first state to coordinate competency-based programs across eight community colleges using state-backed curricula. Professors say these programs help working students, but they come with trade-offs.

A federal grant to the Cybersecurity Manufacturing Innovation Institute will help build a secure manufacturing tech hub to research new technologies, increase businesses competitiveness and grow a regional workforce.

Researchers at Northwestern University used artificial intelligence to create a program that designed, iterated and refined a new walking robot from scratch, based on a simple prompt, within 26 seconds.

Some professors believe math and computer-science courses will evolve alongside new artificial-intelligence tools, allowing students to focus on higher-level skills while chatbots do the more tedious parts.

The Community College of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, is preparing to open its Center for Education, Innovation and Training, with experiential labs and equipment such as simulators and augmented reality tools.

Academics are working with the U.S. military on creating a ‘perfect,’ self-healing coral reef that can withstand disease, warming temperatures and sea rise.

The University of North Carolina’s committee has realized early on that a ban on generative AI technologies was not only impractical, but could potentially hinder students in the long run.

The funds will be awarded to the Atlanta Center for Microsystems Engineered Point-of-Care Technologies over the next five years to support inventors developing microsystems-based point-of-care technologies.

The Campus Computing Project has launched a research initiative to examine how AI ed-tech tools and other emerging classroom technologies will change instruction in the years to come.

The nonprofit Black Girls Do Engineer hopes to provide its member students with STEM-related access, awareness and advocacy. The group hopes to connect 2 million students to the STEM field by 2050.

The future site of the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown's planned center for advanced manufacturing, engineering and automation will soon get an overhaul funded by a $1.5 million grant.

Pittsburgh's Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing Institute is supporting efforts to build submarines and tactical alloys for the U.S. military through a relatively new Department of Defense community initiative.

The university is working with state officials and others to identify where broadband funding is most needed, according to a recent announcement. The effort comes amid increasing societal reliance on high-speed Internet.

UC Berkeley aims to capture interest with plans for a $2 billion, 36-acre space center at NASA Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley, which will feature needed classrooms, laboratories and housing.

New York University and the Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology will collaborate on research to study how advances in artificial intelligence will impact society moving forward.