Jay Greene is a senior research fellow in the Center for Education Policy at The Heritage Foundation. Defenders of 60% overhead rates, however, insist that they absolutely need this money to cover ...

A federal appeals court on Monday ruled that the National Institutes of Health cannot unilaterally cap the indirect-cost rate on its grants at 15 percent, continuing a freeze on the controversial ...

Topline: The federal government gives billions of dollars in research grants to universities every year, but not all of it directly funds scientific inquiry. Most universities enjoy contractually ...

Late last Friday, Feb. 7, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced it was immediately capping overhead rates on all research grants at 15%. Because most research universities rely on overhead ...

Universities are protesting the Trump administration’s plan to limit the overhead, also known as indirect costs, covered by federal research grants. They argue this change violates a long-standing ...

The Ford Foundation works with thousands of nonprofits, each with different needs and structures. Yet its program grants pay for related indirect costs at a single rate — 20 percent of the grant. Such ...

PHILADELPHIA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The overhead costs involved in clinical trials represent significant expenses that can vary widely across the globe. Perhaps few issues elicit more interest in clinical ...

As a professor at UC Santa Barbara, I research the effects of and solutions to ocean pollution, including oil seeps, spills and offshore DDT. I began my career by investigating the interaction of ...

Lasers operate in a University at Albany lab in the RNA Institute where chemistry professor Igor Lednev and his son, Alex, are working on a procedure to rapidly detect Alzheimer's from saliva.

There’s an important battle brewing over university overhead rates. Sounds boring, right? But hang with me and you’ll see why this is so crucially important to America. It will determine whether ...

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