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March 9, 2025 Dear Research Community, We want to bring to your attention an important matter regarding a Foreign Assistance Review – Organizational Assessment survey tool. WFU and other universities have been receiving varied requests from federal agencies—including USAID, CDC, and the OMB—to complete this survey.  At […]

February 11, 2025 Dear Research Community, As you may have heard through media reports, early evening yesterday a temporary restraining order on the new NIH indirect cost policy was ordered by a judge in Massachusetts in response to a lawsuit filed by 22 […]

February 9, 2025 Dear Research Community, Most of you have likely been following the recent policy changes announced by USAID, NSF, NASA, and DOE in response to the federal executive orders. The most recent new policy is an announcement published on Friday by the NIH regarding […]

Dear NSF-funded PIs, I’m writing in follow up to my January 29, 2025 email regarding the NSF communication about implementation of certain Executive Orders and NSF’s directive to cease DEIA activities.  On Friday, January 31, 2025, a federal judge in Rhode Island issued a Temporary […]

January 29, 2025 Dear NSF-funded PIs, We are writing to ensure that you have received the communication from NSF regarding implementation of the Executive Orders. Please note that their guidance indicates that: “All NSF grantees must comply with these executive orders, and any […]

January 28, 2025 Dear research faculty,  Many of you have likely seen news reports of a 2-page internal memo from the acting director of the Office of Management and Budget to the heads of the federal agencies instructing them to place a temporary pause on grant, loan, […]

January 24, 2025 Dear Faculty, We understand that the recent freeze on public communications by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the related National Institutes of Health (NIH) suspension of study section meetings and grant reviews have caused considerable concern among our […]