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A new report from the College Board reveals that, despite rising sticker prices (published tuition and fees) for full-time undergraduate students, the net price that students and their families pay after grant aid, even after adjusted for inflation, is lower than it was 10 years ago.
The “Quadrennial Science and Technology Review,” released by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, outlines how federally funded research has made the United States a global leader in innovation – and argues that sustained investments in research are needed to maintain that cutting edge.
The Nobel Prizes for 2024 have been announced, and faculty from seven AAU institutions are among this year’s winners.
The American Talent Initiative has awarded grants to five AAU institutions to support projects “that break barriers and increase college access and success for lower-income students.”
Georgia Institute of Technology | Indiana University Bloomington | Stony Brook University - The State University of New York | University of California Santa Cruz | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | Leading Research Universities Report | Affordability and Student Aid
The Global Innovation Index ranks 133 countries based on their capacity for innovation as well as their ability to adopt technology and create socioeconomic impact through technological advancements. The United States ranked third in the overall index; China ranked eleventh.
The 2024 class of MacArthur Fellows consists of 22 accomplished individuals, including nine faculty members from AAU institutions.
The 2024 Golden Goose Award honored seven scientists whose unusual, curiosity-driven, federally underwritten research led to major scientific breakthroughs.
Last week, the Bayh-Dole Coalition, which includes AAU, honored five innovators whose work helped transform early-stage discoveries at research universities into commercial breakthroughs. Four of the five innovators who received the award have connections to AAU schools.
Cornell University | Patents | Stanford University | The University of Arizona | University of California, Berkeley | Leading Research Universities Report
A new report from the National Academies finds that the United States, unlike other nations that run programs to recruit foreign talent, “does not have a whole-of-government STEM strategy” to help recruit foreign-born students and scientists or retain the talent we already have.
The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) has selected six AAU member universities to develop novel technologies that would help surgeons remove cancerous tumors more effectively and accurately.
Dartmouth | Rice University | The Johns Hopkins University | Tulane University | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | University of Washington | Leading Research Universities Report