The University of Washington is developing an interdisciplinary AI minor, open to students across all majors and co-led by an ...

Discover how your choice of college major can shape your career in the AI-driven economy, with insights into skills, programs ...

When Eric Weber, professor and chair of mathematics at Iowa State University, talks about data science with future math teachers, he doesn't begin with code, algorithms, or buzzwords. Instead, he asks ...

A sweeping investigation has revealed widespread fraud in mathematics publishing, where commercial metrics and rankings have incentivized the mass production of meaningless or flawed papers. The study ...

Hundreds of UC faculty are urging a return of SAT or ACT test requirements for STEM applicants, citing math deficits after six years of being test-free. A UC San Diego report of soaring math ...

It’s a weird time to be studying computer science. Recent grads have a higher unemployment rate than those in just about every other major—yes, even philosophy. The internet is littered with rants ...

When I left the classroom 12 years ago, computer science was still treated like a niche pursuit, something for the few. Today, it’s the engine of change across every sector. In K–12 education, it is ...

Mathematician Kevin Buzzard of Imperial College London is training computers how to prove one of the most famous problems in math history: Fermat’s last theorem. Resolving the problem isn’t the point.

Shira is eager to hear from college students and their families about how you’re feeling about the job market. Drop her a line at shira.ovide@washpost.com. A lot of students took the advice to learn ...

The tipping point came in the summer of 2025. That July, several artificial intelligence models solved five out of six problems at the International Mathematical Olympiad, an annual challenge for some ...

State education leaders are revising their draft standards that would make fundamental changes to how students -- especially high school students -- learn and engage with math. But some State Board of ...

As a young art major at Viterbo University in La Crosse, Wisconsin, Dr. Barbara Johnson once stood before blank canvases waiting for inspiration to strike. It arrived instead in a computer lab in 1984 ...