Florida officials on Tuesday rejected the candidacy of Santa Ono to lead the University of Florida, after he had been accused of leniency toward pro-Palestinian protesters while serving as president of the University of Michigan. The University of Florida’s board unanimously approved Dr. Ono last week, but the state’s Board of Governors, which oversees the … Read more
China was already scoring wins in its rivalry with the United States for scientific talent. It had drawn some of the world’s best researchers to its campuses, people decorated with Nobel Prizes, MacArthur “Genius” grants and seemingly every other academic laurel on offer. Now the Trump administration’s policies might soon bolster China’s efforts. Under President … Read more
Thousands of administrative employees at Brown University woke up this spring to an email with pointed Elon Musk-like questions about their job responsibilities. Please describe your role, it asked. What tasks have you performed in the past week? How would Brown students be affected if your job didn’t exist? The March 18 email was from … Read more
President Trump said on Wednesday that he would prevent Harvard University’s international students from entering the country, an aggressive move the school called “illegal.” Mr. Trump, in the same proclamation, also urged Secretary of State Marco Rubio to consider revoking current visas for Harvard students. The extraordinary action marks the first time Mr. Trump has … Read more
For more than 60 years, my family owned a small paint factory in Long Island City, Queens, in the shadow of the neon Pepsi-Cola sign just across the East River from Manhattan. That factory and the Pepsi-Cola bottling plant are long gone — two of the hundreds of industrial facilities that once existed throughout the … Read more
During his phone call with President Trump, Xi Jinping leaned on a maritime analogy to try to salvage the fragile trade truce that seemed to be fracturing from a series of escalating punitive economic measures. The Chinese leader compared the relationship between the United States and China to a large ship, with the two men … Read more
En su llamada telefónica con el presidente Donald Trump, Xi Jinping usó una analogía marítima para intentar defender la frágil tregua comercial que parecía desvanecerse por una serie de medidas económicas cada vez más severas. El dirigente chino comparó la relación entre Estados Unidos y China con un gran barco en el que los dos … Read more
As the Trump administration clamped down on the country’s medical research funding apparatus in recent months, scientists and administrators at the National Institutes of Health often privately wondered how much autonomy the agency’s director, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, had. After all, the Department of Government Efficiency, Elon Musk’s signature cost-cutting project, helped drive decisions to cancel … Read more
The dozen board members of the prestigious Fulbright program that promotes international educational exchanges resigned on Wednesday because of what they said was political interference by the Trump administration in their operations, according to people familiar with the issues and a board memo obtained by The New York Times. The members are concerned that political … Read more
As President Trump and his team dialed up the pressure on Harvard University last month, threatening to bar its international students, the school issued what was at once a warning and a plea. “Without its international students, Harvard is not Harvard,” school officials wrote in a lawsuit asking a judge to stop the federal government’s … Read more