Three advisory committees composed of current BU faculty will be tasked with various administrative responsibilities for BU’s new Computing and Data Sciences department by Feb. 28. The committees will provide preliminary recommendations to Jean Morrison, university provost and chief academic officer.

Boston University hosted 500 students from across the United States and Canada on Saturday and Sunday for the 24-hour tech-invention competition BostonHacks, where students from 25 different universities...

Computer science, according to Reuters, now stands as the top major for women at Stanford University, with 214 female upperclassmen officially declared to study the subject. Following closely behind...