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10/24/25: Americans Think Trump Is Overreaching on Higher Ed (The Chronicle) With federal funding as its leverage, the Trump administration has mounted a sustained campaign to give the federal government greater oversight of higher education. By a wide margin, the public rejects that effort — including the White House’s most recent foray, its proposed “compact” for higher education. https://www.chronicle.com/article/americans-think-trump-is-overreaching-on-higher-ed
10/24/25: China seeks self-reliance in science in next five-year plan (Nature) Beijing wants to double down on advanced semiconductor technologies, artificial intelligence and basic research. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03491-w
10/24/25: Justice Department unexpectedly drops fraud case against Alzheimer’s scientist (Science) A much-anticipated scientific fraud case against a neuroscientist for his preclinical work on a potential drug for Alzheimer’s disease evaporated yesterday after the jury had been chosen, when the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) abruptly dropped the charges. Former City University of New York (CUNY) researcher Hoau-Yan Wang had been indicted in 2023 for “defrauding the National Institutes of Health (NIH) of approximately $16 million” in grants related to early studies on simufilam, a compound that the biotech Cassava Sciences had reported could help treat Alzheimer’s, but which the company abandoned after the drug failed in a large, phase 3 trial. https://www.science.org/content/article/justice-department-unexpectedly-drops-fraud-case-against-alzheimer-s-scientist
