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This week's newsletter features AAU's statement welcoming President Biden's FY24 budget; a higher education community letter on a USCIS proposal to increase immigration fees; and more.

AAU welcomes President Biden’s FY24 budget request, and we appreciate that it includes increases for many of our priorities in research and education.

Congress should avoid misguided attempts to tax nonprofit funds that support scholarships and research known as college endowments.
Confronting COVID-19
America's leading research universities are at the forefront of the battle against COVID-19
- Researchers at Purdue propose a quantum device that could be tested experimentally to succinctly realize emergent particles like the Fibonacci anyon.
Hisham Ali is pushing the limits of plasma physics and hypersonics in his lab on campus
- Researchers have come up with an innovative approach to building underwater robots using simple repeating substructures.
- A new Harvard study finds age-related fat and lower muscle density could worsen balance, possibly increase risk of falls
- An international coalition of researchers led by Georgia Tech identified three core focus areas with research priorities for long-term urban sustainability and viability.

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