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2/13/26: NSF Returning Fellowship Applications With Little Explanation (Inside Higher Ed) The National Science Foundation has started returning applications for its Graduate Research Fellowship Program to the students who submitted them without review, STAT News and Eos reported. https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2026/02/13/nsf-returns-fellowship-applications-minimal-reasoning
2/12/26: U.S. colleges received more than $5 billion in foreign gifts, contracts in 2025 (NPR) U.S. colleges received more than 5 billion dollars in reportable foreign gifts and contracts in 2025, according to a new website from the U.S. Education Department. The release is part of a push by the Trump administration to make foreign influence in colleges and universities more transparent. https://www.npr.org/2026/02/12/nx-s1-5711359/us-colleges-5-billion-in-foreign-gifts See also: Trump admin reveals first-of-its-kind funding data in elite college crackdown (Axios) https://www.axios.com/2026/02/11/trump-harvard-stanford-education-department
2/12/26: DHS shutdown imminent as Senate leaves town without deal (Axios) Lawmakers are departing Washington on Thursday without a deal to fund the Department of Homeland Security — all but ensuring a partial government shutdown at the end of the day Friday. https://www.axios.com/2026/02/12/shutdown-homeland-security-senate-negotiations
2/12/26: AI help in grant proposals tied to higher funding odds at NIH (Nature) But funding proposals to US agencies also tend to be more similar to previously funded projects if they are written or edited with the help of a chatbot. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00369-3
2/11/26: Trump team’s new rule could make firing government scientists easier (Nature) Although the government says the move will depoliticize US science, some researchers say it will do the opposite. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00443-w
2/11/26: China to punish universities that fail to sanction research misconduct (Nature) Policy follows establishment of a national database of papers retracted for serious misconduct.https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00321-5
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