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US factory activity contracted in June for a fourth consecutive month as orders and employment shrank at a faster pace, ...
Thirteen research universities have filed a lawsuit seeking to stop NSF from capping the indirect research costs it pays to universities on grants from the agency.
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The entrance to the National Science Foundation's building in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 29, 2020. The agency is capping indirect research costs at 15% for colleges' new grants, it recently announced.
Automotive Manufacturing: $406 billion ($172 billion to U.S.). (The overall price increases for domestically manufactured motor vehicles in the U.S. are estimated to be hit with a 20% price increase.) ...
Lea en español aquí.. Princeton joined eight other universities and three national higher education associations in a lawsuit against the Department of Energy (DOE) on Monday over the department’s ...
The DOE issued on April 11 a similar standardized 15 percent indirect cost rate and explained that the department was working to terminate grant awards for universities that do not conform with ...
Two months after the National Institutes of Health unilaterally capped indirect research cost reimbursement rates at 15 percent—which a federal judge has permanently blocked—the Department of Energy ...
In February, the National Institutes of Health proposed capping reimbursements for indirect costs — which cover expenses like lab space, utilities and administrative support — at 15%.
In February, the NIH attempted to cut overhead costs it pays to universities and grantees to 15 percent, a decision that critics said would result in a $4 billion shortfall to universities and ...
Harvard’s Indirect Cost Rate, Explained Nearly two months after the Feb. 7 executive order from the National Institute of Health attempting to slash overhead funding, uncertainty persists ...