Follow COGR on LinkedIn7/23/25Inside Higher Ed
Federal Grant Cuts Don’t Spare Red States, New Report Shows
The Center for American Progress says the Trump administration has targeted for termination more than 4,000 grants across over 600 institutions. Adjusting for statewide enrollment, South Dakota is hit harder than Massachusetts
7/23/25Politico
State Department launches new investigation into Harvard
The State Department will investigate Harvard University’s eligibility to sponsor international students and researchers, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Wednesday, the latest attempt by the Trump administration to pressure the Ivy League university
7/23/25NPR
U.S. probes foreign links to agriculture research to protect food supply
The Agriculture Department is applying more scrutiny to research done by its employees alongside noncitizens.
7/22/25Inside Higher Ed
NIH to Limit AI Use, Cap P.I. Grant Applications at 6 per Year
The National Institutes of Health says its new policy comes after the agency “recently observed instances of Principal Investigators submitting large numbers of applications.”
7/22/25Bloomberg Law, Opinion
NIH Budget Cuts Are a Setback for American Science: Editorial
White House budgets, generally speaking, aren’t serious governing documents. Even so, they’re a declaration of national priorities — and by that measure, the latest blueprint is deeply troubling. What sort of administration aspires to shrink its budget for scientific discovery by 40%?
7/22/25Science
In ‘blow to the environment,’ EPA begins to dismantle its research office
In a sweeping reduction of the U.S. government’s research capabilities, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced last week it will begin to dissolve its Office of Research and Development (ORD) and lay off staff. The toll is expected to include hundreds of scientists and their research on environmental hazards
7/22/25Science
Employees’ protests against Trump science policies spread to NSF
The three-page NSF petition states that “our oath to uphold the U.S. Constitution … compels us to call attention to actions that jeopardize NSF’s mission, independence, and laws that protect the federal workforce from politicization and abuse.” It was sent to Representative Zoe Lofgren of California, the top Democrat on the science committee of the U.S. House of Representatives, who has repeatedly accused Trump of waging an assault on science
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See also: NASA staff speak out against Trump cuts
7/22/25Nature
Do academics publish less after getting tenured? Depends on your field
Academics’ research-publication patterns shift fundamentally after they attain tenure, a coveted status that provides job security in the United States, according to an analysis 1 of more than 12,000 researchers across 15 disciplines