Follow COGR on LinkedIn3/25/26Inside Higher Ed
Halfway Through the Fiscal Year, NIH Has Only Obligated 15% of Research Funding
The science community fears the funding agency’s slow contract and grant making could result in another rush of multiyear obligations at the end of the fiscal year. The NIH director has said, “Don’t pay attention to the hype.”
3/25/26Inside Higher Ed
Studies Flag Inequities in NIH Grant Cuts, Threats to Science Pipeline
Women and early-career investigators were disproportionately impacted by the thousands of National Institutes of Health grant terminations in 2025, according to a new analysis. Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the study determined that women’s projects were “smaller on average, had a larger share of unspent funds at cancelation, and were more concentrated in training and transition awards.”
3/25/26Bloomberg Law
Trump’s Actions to Slash Red Tape Fall Short of Early Promises
For all its bluster about canceling a record number of regulations across the federal government, the Trump administration has only erased a handful of big-ticket rules more than a year into his second term, according to a review by Bloomberg Law
March 2026: The Financial Accountability in Research (FAIR) Model: https://www.ncura.edu/Portals/0/Docs/RMR/2026/RMR_Vol29_No1_Droegemeier_et_al.pdf
A New Approach to the Government-Researcher Partnership for American Leadership in Research and Innovation (NCURA, Research Management Review)