6/13/25: In fight over research overhead funding, universities propose alternatives to Trump’s cuts (STAT, COGR Mention) Facing billions of dollars in proposed cuts to research overhead payments from the Trump administration, a coalition of academic groups has devised plans it believes could be more sensible, measured ways to revamp how the federal government pays for scientific research. https://www.statnews.com/2025/06/13/nih-indirect-costs-universities-float-reform-options-in-response-to-trump-research-cuts/?utm_campaign=breaking_news&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz–bNL1Z2xuO5BmiC0QJI_KRYvRhMD8XwOG0biJilmGU6N8OuD6xM1FgFv0AQWhSoh3fcnHvyAWGm5U5cQSxQ-FaxcZSfw&_hsmi=366607925&utm_content=366607925&utm_source=hs_email
6/13/25: In Reversal, Trump Says Chinese Students Are Welcome (Inside Higher Ed) In exchange for shipments of rare earth metals, the U.S. “WILL PROVIDE TO CHINA WHAT WAS AGREED TO, INCLUDING CHINESE STUDENTS USING OUR COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES (WHICH HAS ALWAYS BEEN GOOD WITH ME!),” Trump posted (capital letters his). https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2025/06/13/reversal-trump-says-chinese-students-are-welcome#
6/13/25: Judge Releases Harvard Researcher After 4-Month Detention (Inside Higher Ed) A judge released a Harvard Medical School research associate and Russian native Thursday. She had been held in federal detention for nearly four months after she tried to re-enter the U.S. https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2025/06/13/judge-releases-harvard-researcher-after-four-month-detention
6/13/25: Some US researchers want to leave the country. Can Europe take them? (Nature) As the Trump administration steps up attacks on US universities and scientific institutions, the European Union is campaigning hard to attract scientists from the United States. But how many can the bloc take? https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01629-4
6/12/25: Notice of Rescission of Civil Rights Term and Condition of Award (NIH NOT-OD-25-124) https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-25-124.html
6/12/25: Red-State Universities Will Get Hit by Trump’s Cuts, Too (Guest Essay, New York Times) his joust with Harvard — his moves, in particular, to freeze more than $2 billion in federal research funding and cancel federal contracts with the university — is just the most visible part of a wider assault on institutions of higher learning. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/opinion/trump-harvard-scientific-research.html
6/12/25: Trump’s cuts to more than 1700 NIH grants get court hearing (Science) On 16 June, Young will take on a new question: whether the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has, following official or unofficial directives from President Donald Trump’s administration, violated the law by abruptly canceling hundreds of grants studying topics such as transgender health, vaccine skepticism, and health equity—an accusation that Young has called “breathtaking.” His decision, which could come as early as Monday at the morning hearing, could force NIH to restore money to many of the affected scientists, although the decision could be overturned on appeal. https://www.science.org/content/article/trump-s-cuts-more-1700-nih-grants-get-court-hearing
6/12/25: An American research crisis with real human consequences (Science, Editorial) Ivy League universities have dominated recent news headlines, having become popular targets for critics of higher education. But the threats they face—cuts to federal research funding, assaults on academic freedom, and bans on admitting international students—extend far beyond their campuses. Research universities across the country—large and small, public and private—are grappling with these same pressures. These institutions are behind the breakthroughs that shape daily lives. Undermining them doesn’t just jeopardize higher education, it threatens national and global strength. This means that economic, technological, and intellectual collapse is inevitable if US research institutions fall to federal and state disinvestment. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adz6477
6/11/25: What Happens if ‘Harvard Is Not Harvard’? “Without its international students, Harvard is not Harvard,” school officials wrote in a lawsuit asking a judge to stop the federal government’s actions. It left unsaid what Harvard, if it were no longer Harvard, would become. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/us/harvard-funding-trump-administration.html
6/10/25: Preserving the Federal Data Trump Is Trying to Purge (Inside Higher Ed) For months, the research community has been racing to download and store thousands of demographic data sets the government wants to delete because they don’t align with the Trump administration’s ideological views. https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/science-research-policy/2025/06/10/preserving-federal-data-trump-trying-purge
