Controversial department temporarily loses ability to see private loan information after what has been described as ¡®one of the biggest data hacks in US history¡¯
US colleges and universities that predominantly serve underrepresented students don¡¯t know where they stand amid new president¡¯s sweeping executive orders
¡®I want to understand as best we can quantitatively, what are the things that lead to our students leaving?¡¯ says University of Colorado Boulder leader
Even if the department lives to fight another day, putting it under threat will have helped Republicans to ¡®flood the zone¡¯ and disorientate opponents, academics say
More than half of PhD graduates find jobs outside universities after graduating but students complain programmes are still only set up to help create new professors
From cancelled guest lectures to disrupted clinical trials, the damage to US science caused by a grant approval freeze is mounting, but further problems lie ahead
The outgoing prime minister was widely welcomed by researchers as something of a knight in shining armour after Stephen Harper¡¯s ¡®anti-science¡¯ administration. But his international student caps have made him look more like a horseman of the apocalypse to many observers. Patrick Jack reports
