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AAU is a source of information for the news media, policymakers, and the public on a broad range of policy issues related to university research, higher education, and research universities.
This section contains AAU news releases, articles and op-eds, newsletters, and reports. It also lists contact information for the AAU communications staff.
Press releases going back to 2015, with the most recent first.
Op-eds by AAU leaders, university presidents, and other national and international leaders about research university issues.
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Last month, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) released the Global Innovation Index, which ranks 133 countries around the world based on their capacity for innovation as well as their ability to ad
On the campuses of America’s leading research universities, students and professors have returned to class and researchers are hard at work on medical and technological breakthroughs; unseen is all the groundwork that university leaders have been doing over the past months to make the new school year safe for students and conducive for learning.
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
The following is a statement from the Association of American Universities expressing support for a request made by a bipartisan group of senators to Education Secretary Miguel Cardona to delay new rules relating to Gainful Employment (GE) and Financial Value Transparency (FVT).
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 College | Rice University | The Johns Hopkins University | Tulane University | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | University of Washington | Leading Research Universities Report
On this week's CFR Update, Supreme Court blocks Education Department from partially enforcing new Title IX rule in 10 States, AAU, Associations submit comments on NIH draft public access policy; and more.
Congress is considering several measures that threaten to withhold research funding as an ideological weapon against universities – but it’s their discoveries that advance Americans’ health, security, and prosperity that would be the collateral damage.
