Megan Zahneis

1 month ago | chronicle.com | Megan Zahneis

In its first month, President Trump’s administration has taken direct aim at academic research, ordering a freeze on federal grant funding — including from the National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health, among other agencies — followed by a drastic shrinking of the indirect-cost reimbursements the NIH provides institutions.

2 months ago | chronicle.com | Megan Zahneis

What’s NewEven after a judge intervened to prohibit the Trump administration from freezing federal funding, large numbers of grants from the National Institutes of Health still can’t be paid out. That’s because the groups that review grant proposals and decide whether to fund them can no longer schedule their meetings, according to two emails from NIH officials obtained by The Chronicle.

2 months ago | chronicle.com | Christa Dutton |Karin Fischer |Megan Zahneis

The first several weeks of the second Trump White House have given higher education a severe case of vertigo. Executive orders and policy announcements have come at a breathtaking pace: freezing federal grants, drastically reducing support for research, targeting a vast swath of diversity, equity, and inclusion programs, and threatening federal investigations. Often, judges have blocked them, but it is not clear that the administration is always complying.

2 months ago | chronicle.com | Dan Bauman |Megan Zahneis

A plan by the Trump administration to reduce government spending on research by billions of dollars has raised anxieties within higher education and among those who carry out the nation’s biomedical research. A memo released late on Friday announced that the National Institutes of Health would limit indirect-cost funding to 15 percent, approximately half of the average rate it previously offered.

2 months ago | chronicle.com | Megan Zahneis |Dan Bauman

A federal judge on Monday halted the National Institutes of Health’s overhead-funding cap after 22 states sued the agency, arguing in their complaint that “work to cure and treat human disease will grind to a halt” because of the move. That pause, though, applies only in the suing states.