A new study from Abhinav Gupta, professor of management in the University of Washington Foster School of Business, examines how public universities decided whether to offer same-sex domestic partner benefits in the early 1990s and 2000s. The research offers timely lessons on how universities can navigate politically charged issues without abandoning their core commitments.

Involving communities in nature-based solutions to tackle urban climate and environmental challenges leads to innovation and multiple benefits, a study shows.

Many home healthcare agencies adopted telehealth services during the COVID-19 pandemic, but the absence of federal reimbursements for these services has led to an increasing number of providers discontinuing these options, a national survey conducted by the University of California, Irvine, and other institutions reveals. Results are published in Health Services Research.

The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, a nonprofit medical ethics group, filed a complaint today, May 28, 2025, with the National Institutes of Health’s Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare, along with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare, requesting an investigation of—and corrective action and penalties associated with—decades-long alcohol- and reproductive-related experiments on nonhuman primates at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU). On May 19, 2025, the national nonprofit reached out to OHSU asking for the studies to be shut down. The ongoing experiments, which receive funding from the National Institutes of Health, have cost more than $70 million.

Carnegie Mellon University Africa announced today that the African Engineering and Technology Network (Afretec) has signed its ninth university partner, Universidade Agostinho Neto. The network, launched in 2022, provides a vehicle for technology-focused universities in Africa to engage in deep collaboration to drive digital growth, create technology development and job growth, and shape policy change.

When considering how to use marine spaces and allocate resources to their management, policymakers would do well to take a gender-sensitive approach. So say UC Santa Barbara researchers and their collaborators in a study published in the journal Marine Policy. According to their findings, globally, men and women tend to use the ocean in different ways, with implications for how marine spaces are used and valued.

Advances in human stem cell-derived disease models have the potential to augment our predictive power for the efficacy and safety of new drugs. This technology, which complements existing approaches, is poised to reduce R&D costs and accelerate the development of new therapies for patients.

The International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) has assembled an international consortium of cross-sector thought leaders from industry, academia, and regulatory science to enable the widespread, responsible adoption.