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Indirect costs are fat targets for budget slashers, but beware: They make science possible. They don't pay for the ...

A group of higher education associations is floating changes to the federal government’s model for reimbursing research ...

The US National Science Foundation (NSF) has paused a policy that threatened to cost universities hundreds of millions of dollars a year in ‘research overhead’ payments. The suspension ...

Overhead costs, alongside direct costs, the other main category of business expense, determine a company’s profitability. These expenses are subtracted from revenue in the income statement to ...

Biden-appointed federal Judge Angel Kelley blocks the National Institutes of Health from applying a standard indirect cost rate of 15% across the board on grants.

"Of this funding, approximately $26 billion went to direct costs for research, while $9 billion was allocated to overhead through NIH's indirect cost rate," according to the report.

Stanford receives “a maximum of $54 in indirect costs for every $100 in direct costs.” The University of Pennsylvania weighs in at “62.5% of the basic grant value for indirect costs.” ...

Of that, $23 billion went to “direct” research costs, such as microscopes and researchers’ salaries, according to an Upshot analysis of N.I.H. grant data.

Indirect costs are “difficult for NIH to oversee” because they aren’t entirely entailed by a specific grant. “Private foundations” cap overhead charges at 10 to 15 percent of direct costs and all but ...

It costs money to maintain the various facilities, utilities and personnel that allow scientists to conduct research in the first place. Without federal support, institutions are left scrambling.