Press Releases

Presidents and chancellors of 153 leading universities urged President Obama and bipartisan congressional leaders to prevent deep across-the-board spending cuts due to take effect in January as a result of budget sequestration.

More than 130 university presidents and chancellors sent a letter to the members of the Congressional Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction urging them to reach “a big agreement – not incremental steps” while working to close the nation’s budget deficit.

Today, at Carnegie Mellon University, President Obama launched the Advanced Manufacturing Partnership

AAU praised the report issued by the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, chaired by Erskine Bowles and former Senator Alan Simpson.

Statement by Robert M. Berdahl, President of AAU, on the Guidelines for Human Stem Cell Research issued today by NIH.

AAU, AAAS, and NAFSA issue press release: Scientific, academic, engineering groups praise administration visa efforts, urge further steps. A call for high-level interagency review of post-9/11 policies and procedures.

The statement is a call to action for universities to ensure the broadest possible access to the products of their work.

The Department of Defense will not restrict disclosure of DOD-funded basic and applied research results unless the research is classified for national security reasons or otherwise restricted by statute, regulation, or executive order.

15 leading business organizations called for doubling the number of science, technology, engineering and mathematics graduates by the year 2015. 

The nation's top research universities and AAMC issued a set of shared guidelines intended to protect the public interest when universities grant licenses for the rights to their latest scientific advances to private parties.