Nataliya Shakhovska, Lviv Polytechnic's first female rector, leads 35,000 students through wartime challenges while advancing AI research and pursuing European excellence.
Longer grant cycles would boost research in Africa
Two- to three-year research funding cycles in Africa create high administrative burdens, impede resilience to shocks, and are inadequate for long-term, infrastructure-heavy projects.
Prizes must recognize machine contributions to discovery
Machines and the engineering systems that enable scientific discoveries deserve formal recognition alongside humans through existing awards or new prize categories.
Model organism databases face budget cuts and closures
Federal funding freezes at Harvard forced FlyBase layoffs and jeopardized model-organism databases, risking loss of curation expertise and setbacks to basic scientific research.