US higher education policy
Even favourable result for under-fire institution unlikely to quell president*s attacks, experts warn, as Columbia reaches own deal with administration
US-based researchers have dominated the Nobel prizes, but more than one-third of them were born abroad, drawn by the US* world-leading research ecosystem. But many Nobel laureates fear that Donald Trump*s assault on that ecosystem will choke off the flow of future prizes. Jack Grove reports
The annual Turning Point USA*s Student Action Summit drew thousands of students and a host of Republican luminaries. But the event was rather overshadowed by the row over Jeffrey Epstein*s client list. And mentions of university policy were as rare as purple hair, reports Patrick Jack