University Libraries

Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries is hosting its Social Justice Lecture featuring biologist Beronda Montgomery, Ph.D. Montgomery, known for her research on photosynthetic organisms and her writing on mentorship and leadership in science, is being presented as this installment's speaker. The lecture series connects scientific scholarship with questions of equity and justice, and the announcement is drawing attention from readers in the Richmond area.

The University of Texas at Arlington's libraries are the focus of a discussion on open access agreements in higher education. The piece examines how such agreements affect the cost of academic knowledge for students and researchers, amid wider debate over journal subscription prices and moves to make scholarly publishing free to read.

The US National Library of Medicine has issued calls for applications for institutional grants supporting research training in biomedical informatics, data science, and artificial intelligence. The programme funds US institutions to train researchers at the intersection of health and computational sciences, and grant announcements like this typically draw attention from universities and research organisations preparing applications.