The United States gets roughly an eighth of its tenure-track professors from just five institutions, according to an analysis of nearly 300,000 faculty.

Projects funded by the National Institutes of Health increasingly employ subjective and promotional language in describing research, a study finds.

The center oversaw programs such as the Mass Media Science & Engineering Fellowship, many of which will continue.

A researcher’s existential crisis led to a scientific breakthrough.

Universities and institutes are preparing to terminate thousands of technically temporary researchers by next spring instead of granting them the permanent employment mandated by a 2013 labor law.

Following the overturning of Roe v. Wade, numerous researchers have announced plans to either vacate or decline career opportunities in states where abortion is or will soon be illegal.

Two recent court rulings shine a light on the disturbing tactics used by some activists to target biomedical researchers who study animals.

A large coalition of colleges and universities aims to change hiring, promotion, and tenure practices to reward collaboration.

With the Russian army nearby, faculty at V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University in Ukraine are trying to return to normal.

The launch of the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability—the first new school at the university in 70 years—comes thanks to a $1.1 billion gift from a venture capitalist and his wife.

Hundreds of the school’s faculty, students, and trainees are protesting its consideration of David Sabatini, who left his previous posts after alleged sexual misconduct.

Texas A&M cited potential foreign interference when explaining why it shut down a jointly run modeling laboratory.

Geneticist Terry Magnuson steps down as vice-chancellor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill after he copied text from multiple sources he found online into a grant application. 

Hundreds of people turned up to show solidarity with three grad students suing the university over a professor’s alleged misconduct, while faculty who had previously spoken in the professor’s favor walk back their support.

More than a dozen current and former members of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy have shared details of alleged mistreatment, prompting President Biden’s top scientist to issue a formal apology.

Multiple prestigious US biomedical research awards have rarely or never been granted to a scientist with Asian ancestry, illustrating racial bias within American research societies and institutions, a researcher argues.

Postdoctoral fellows faced challenges before COVID-19 changed the way academia functions, and these early career scientists report that things have only gotten harder.

In the introduction, editor Marcelo Gleiser establishes the need for dialogue across the science-humanities divide in academia.

Selecting researchers who will drive research agendas forward requires a more quantitative approach to interviewing.