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Trump admin opens investigation into UC Berkeley over foreign funding

The Trump administration launched an investigation into the University of California, Berkeley, on Friday centred on foreign funding, making it the latest university to be targeted by the federal government. The investigation revives criticism from several years ago about the university's partnership with China's Tsinghua University. It comes after President Donald Trump earlier this week signed a series of executive orders focused on universities that he views as liberal adversaries to his political agenda. One order called for harder enforcement of Section 117, a federal law requiring colleges to disclose foreign gifts and contracts valued at USD 2,50,000 or more. The Department of Education's Office of General Counsel will investigate "UC Berkeley's apparent failure to fully and accurately disclose significant funding received from foreign sources", Education Secretary Linda McMahon said in a statement. UC Berkeley denied the government's claims, saying that for the last two yea

OpenAI co-founder quits, to join rival Anthropic; CEO Sam Altman responds

OpenAI co-founder John Schulman joined OpenAI in December 2015, just before completing his PhD in electrical engineering and computer sciences at UC Berkeley

From Taylor Swift to Bob Dylan, pop music has found a place on the syllabus

Close to 15 major US universities, including the University of Chicago, Columbia University, and UC Berkley, were offering literature lectures in the academic year 2021-22

Charaiveti: An academic's journey-17

Unlike many economists of his and certainly later generations particularly in the US, Samuelson was deeply interested in the history of economic thought

UC Berkeley, Donald Trump and the muddled ethics of no-platforming

Yiannopoloulos had become America's poster boy victim of an oppressive left