By Elizabeth Redden. A federal jury found Brendt Christensen guilty in the 2017 kidnapping and murder of Chinese scholar Yingying Zhang, the Chicago Tribune reported. Christensen was a former graduate student and Zhang was a visiting scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. More...

By Elizabeth Redden. International students can apply for work authorization 90 days before they graduate, but they're facing application processing times that routinely exceed that. More...

By Elizabeth Redden. India's new draft national education policy lays out an ambitious agenda for transformation, but experts are skeptical about whether the proposed massive increases in expenditures will be forthcoming. More...

By Elizabeth Redden. A senior official at the National Institutes of Health said that the number of cases in which universities have fired faculty due to alleged violations of NIH rules exceeds the five cases that are publicly known, and said universities have repaid the agency "hundreds of thousands of dollars" in grant money as a result of the violations, according to Science Insider. More...

By Elizabeth Redden. The Supreme Court on Thursday blocked the addition of a question about citizenship to the 2020 Census on the grounds that the explanation offered by the Department of Commerce for the action "seems to have been contrived." Many social science groups opposed the addition of the question, which they argued would discourage immigrants from responding and lead to an undercount of the U.S. population. More...

By Elizabeth Redden. The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to take up the question of whether the Trump administration acted legally in trying to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, a program established by the Obama administration that shields certain undocumented immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children from deportation and also provides an avenue through which they can legally work. More...

By Elizabeth Redden. Criminal prosecutions continue in Turkey against signatories of the Academics for Peace petition. Rights groups call the prosecutions a violation of their freedom of expression. More...

By Elizabeth Redden. The Trump administration said it would print forms for the 2020 census without a question about citizenship, The New York Times reported. More...

By Elizabeth Redden. Japan’s education ministry and immigration agency said they would tighten rules around the enrollment of foreign students after a university was found to have lost contact with more than 1,600 international students, The Japan Times reported. More...

By Elizabeth Redden. The defense attorney for a former University of Illinois graduate student accused of killing a visiting scholar from China in April 2017 admitted his client’s guilt as the trial started on Wednesday, the Chicago Tribune reported. More...