Union-represented workers are walking out for an indefinite period of time after negotiations over their compensation and other issues stalled.

Emergency responders arrived at a structure fire in Kansas City to find the two graduate students suffering from “apparent trauma” before they were declared dead at the scene.

Members of newly certified workers’ organizations at campuses across the US speak about how they achieved official recognition and what they’re planning for the years ahead.

Plans to form a union affiliated with the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America were approved by a vote of 1,785 to 912.

In a contract that still needs to be ratified by union members, the university has agreed to boost student pay and allow for independent arbitration in cases of alleged misconduct and discrimination.

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute will invest the funds over 10 years across all stages of the STEM pipeline.

Graduate students planned a three-day-long strike to demand fair pay, union security, and improved protections against sexual harassment and discrimination. If an agreement isn’t met, the union says they may strike longer, potentially disrupting university research.

Graduate student advocacy groups were central to designing the program, which provides a semester of funding if a trainee needs time to find a new mentor.

Meet some of the people featured in the February 2021 issue of The Scientist.

Academic mentors are not necessarily natural managers. Their graduate students often bear the brunt of this shortcoming.

The world was rocked by the COVID-19 pandemic this year, but researchers rose to all manner of challenges.

Student workers have cited a lack of transparency and a failure to implement rapid and widespread testing among their many concerns regarding the school’s response to the pandemic.

More than 3,000 researchers have signed on to a petition that expresses concern over the agency’s 2021 application for the funding program, which emphasizes three areas of computational science and might further disadvantage underrepresented groups.

Life sciences professors and other staff make contingency plans for more coronavirus-related disruptions in the coming school year.

In the face of campus closures around the world, scientific laboratories are offering tours via video. We asked experts for their tips.

Here’s how some researchers and educators are giving prospective students and the public a window into their labs.

Early career researchers face unique challenges when a senior collaborator becomes embroiled in allegations of scientific malpractice.

The closure of visa offices, travel and immigration restrictions, and general anxiety create barriers for the international graduate students and postdocs who play a huge role in research in the United States.

With mounting feelings of isolation, research projects derailed, and financial futures cast into doubt, grad students are anxious in the midst of the COVID-19 outbreak.