UNM gets supercomputer from NM Consortium (The Sacramento Bee) – The University of New Mexico has been gifted a new supercomputer by the New Mexico Consortium to aid in its genome and biomedical research.
George Osborne's cash boost for 3D printing at Ansty Park (BBC News) – The British government is investing roughly $50M to create a national center for additive manufacturing to develop 3d printing and aerospace technologies.
U.S. Education Department Issues Guidance on Student Data Privacy (Education Week) – The Dept. of Education has released new guidelines on the proper use, storage, and security of student data in response to growing privacy concerns with big data and student information.
Computer Science: Not Just an Elective Anymore (Education Week) – To help improve computer science enrollment at the K-12 level a number of states have changed computer science from elective to a math, science, or even foreign language credit course.
Strapped Scientists Abandon Research and Students (The Chronicle of Higher Ed.) – A recent survey from the Chronicle has found that the shrinking budgets of the NIH and NSF are having profound negative impacts on research at the university level.
