For more than a decade, leaders in higher education have been preparing for what is often called the demographic cliff.

The Risk Profile of Choosing Science Is Flashing Red

The Roller Coaster Year That Reshaped Higher Education

As an alumnus of Cornell, I was interested in their decision to cut a deal with the Trump Administration. I’m still not sure it was the right decision, but it was an understandable one.

Why the real problem isn’t that people misunderstand the cost of going to college—it’s that the system has become opaque.

I’ve been wondering with all the news about grant delays, new funding priorities, anti-DEI efforts etc, what has been the impact on actually getting research dollars out the door. Turns out to be a pr...

Is ideological imbalance inevitable?

The National Science Foundation just got evicted. Did America’s long-term thinking go with it?

With a little research and reason, most students can get that degree and not break the bank

From free-falling cats to ticklish rats, here's what happens when you fund curiosity—even when it sounds ridiculous.

Just dropped my first podcast episode — The National Science Foundation’s Missing $12 billion. The NSF funds long term scientific research that brought us such innovations as GPS, the Internet, lasers...

Nostalgia Isn’t a National Research Strategy

Can we build up rather than break down?

The Double-Edged Debate Over Foreign Students in U.S. Higher Education

The White House Science Advisor called for a new golden age—Congress must embrace the words and ignore the proposed budget.

A vote on Trump’s big budget bill could come early Thursday morning. The legislation would extend tax cuts and add billions in new spending – and trillions in debt.

Economists find public R&D drives U.S. productivity growth — and pays for itself

Students, parents, state legislators, and the federal government all want higher ed to do more with less.

Budget cuts threaten scientific breakthroughs at a time when we should be rewarding risk

The Choose Europe for Science program will invest more than half a billion dollars between 2025 and 2027 to recruit researchers and scientists—especially from the United States.

A coalition of universities and corresponding organizations sued the National Science Foundation (NSF) on Monday over slated funding cuts to schools.  The federal agency said Friday it would no lon…

What the FY2026 Budget Says About America’s Commitment to Science

The Full Year Funding Bill Congress Passed Continues the Flat Funding of Research

If we only measure what’s easy to count, we risk losing what makes higher education valuable in the first place.

STAT is tracking, day by day, what's happened in the words of science and health during the first months of the Trump administration.

Is it really a case of billions of dollars and not a penny to spend?

The Trump administration has been targeting Maine since the president sparred with Gov. Janet Mills over transgender athletes at the White House in February.

Sudden move mirrors NIH cap on “indirect” costs that was ruled illegal

White House aims to end NOAA’s research office; NASA also targeted

A reminder that American higher education is more than just a few well-known names

The reasons aren’t clear—and the agency’s director claims the president’s policies haven’t slowed grant awards

Get out your cocktail napkin and follow me down the rabbit hole

Some of the nation’s oldest and wealthiest institutions are swiftly bending to President Donald Trump, who is acting on longstanding conservative criticisms of universities as elitist and progressive.

The Full Year Funding Bill Congress Passed Continues the Flat Funding of Research

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured direct images of multiple gas giant planets within an iconic planetary system. HR 8799, a young system 130

I'm an advocate for higher education, an S&T wonk, and a devoted follower of the church of the long run. Click to read So Long and Thanks for All the Innovation, by Bill Bates, a Substack publication....

This is a moment to trumpet the strengths of higher education and address its weaknesses.