“[NIH] is telling researchers to limit the number of applications they submit and restrict how much they use artificial intelligence in writing their proposals. The agency announced last week that it will accept no…
Ellen Dobson and Anne-Sophie Bohrer (IHE, July 14, 2025)|Posted on July 14, 2025
“It’s never too early, but it can be too late. This simple phrase has transformed our advising sessions with graduate students and postdocs, resonating deeply with those navigating the uncertain waters of career…
Text by Jennifer Ruark, photographs by Ash Ponders, video by Ash Ponders and Michael Theis, interactive by Ron Coddington (Chronicle, July 3, 2025)|Posted on July 07, 2025
This instructive interactive piece shows the price tags for a cancer research lab and the sources of funding.
Karin Fischer (Chronicle of Higher Education, July 7, 2025)|Posted on July 07, 2025
“The United States has produced nearly three times the number of Nobel laureates as any other country. Its success dates back to World War II, when the foundation of the present-day research and…
The Chronicle [of Higher Education] is tracking executive orders, statements from Trump, and agency actions that affect higher education, plus legal challenges directed at those measures. The tracker focuses on four areas: civil…
Leonard Casuto (Chronicle of Higher Education, June 18, 2025)|Posted on June 24, 2025
“’It’s difficult to advise graduate students when you don’t even know what’s happening,’ a dean of a Midwestern graduate school said to me recently. The chaos and policy shock waves emanating from Washington…
Jennifer S. Furlong and Stacy M. Hartman (Chronicle of Higher Education, June 10, 2025)|Posted on June 24, 2025
“Nothing embodies doctoral training more than the adviser/advisee relationship. It can be a productive source of professional support in your life, a complete interpersonal disaster, or anywhere in between. And no topic of…
Jary Y. Delgado (Science, June 5, 2025)|Posted on June 06, 2025
“When I interviewed for my current tenure-track job, I had a stellar training background and solid publications over my 20-year career. But I was unemployed. I didn’t mention that fact, but my CV…
Gertrude Nonterah (Science, May 22, 2025)|Posted on June 06, 2025
“As it began to dawn on me that I was being laid off from my postdoc position, I tried not to panic. I told myself that with my Ph.D. and two bachelor’s degrees,…
L. Maren Wood (Chronicle of Higher Education, May 13, 2025)|Posted on May 19, 2025
"This will very likely be the worst job market in a generation, and many [graduate students and recent PhDs] lack strategies and support to manage the tumult."
Jacqueline Curtis (Science, May 1, 2025)|Posted on May 14, 2025
“How do I get through this uncertainty to get back to my carefully laid plans? Wrestling with that question had defined my career. Twenty years ago, I had a plan. I was living…
Laura Turner (CGS, May 13, 2025)|Posted on May 14, 2025
“As leaders in graduate education, you are familiar with the mental health challenges that graduate students face. The academic rigors, the pressure to publish, complex advisor relationships and uncertainty about future employment all…
Carlos Sadovi (UIC Today, April 15, 2025)|Posted on April 15, 2025
The National Public Housing Museum, which opened April 4, is on the site of the only remaining building of the Jane Addams Homes complex, which was built in 1938. UIC associate professor Lisa Yun Lee is the executive director.
Rob Mitchum (UIC Today, March 25, 2025)|Posted on March 26, 2025
For human health, prematurely aging cells are a big problem. When a cell ages and stops growing, its function changes, which can cause or worsen cardiovascular disease, Alzheimer’s disease and other chronic diseases.…
Kate Nesbit (Inside Higher Education, January 31, 2025)|Posted on February 03, 2025
“[S]ix ideas inspired by what has become my favorite low-tech teaching object: the Post-it note… to offer activities applicable across disciplines. A Cure for Writer’s Block Poster Session Peer Review Cold Call Without…
Rebecca Colesworthy (Chronicle of Higher Education, January 15, 2025)|Posted on January 21, 2025
Peer review can be stressful, even for the most seasoned scholarly writers. Will the reviewers “get” your book project or pan it? There is always a degree of uncertainty. But a negative review…