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

A memo released late on Friday announced that the NIH would limit indirect-cost funding to 15 percent ... has raised anxieties within higher education and among those who carry out the nation ...

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

“Most private foundations that fund research provide substantially lower indirect costs than the federal government, and universities readily accept grants from these foundations,” the agency ...

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 ...

Indirect costs include administrative ... top Democrat on the Primary Health and Pensions Subcommittee of the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, called NIH funding ...

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 ...