Capping ‘indirect funds’ for researchers at 15% is a good start at curtailing the administrative bloat.

I joined Lars Larson to discuss a brutal flu season, the role of Tamiflu, and why universities are skimming millions off NIH ...

American colleges and universities will lose their global preeminence, innovation will suffer, future scientists, doctors, artists and philosophers will not get trained and potentially ...

On February 7, the NIH announced that it would begin capping indirect cost payments for new and existing research grants at 15%.

Education, Labor and Pensions. “I think transparency regarding indirect costs is absolutely worthwhile, and it’s something that the universities can fix by working together to make sure that where ...

According to NIH, $9 billion of the $35 billion that it granted for research last year “was used for administrative overhead, what is known as ‘indirect costs.’ ” A school that receives a ...