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National Science Foundation Suspends Grants at UCLA
National Science Foundation said Thursday that it’s suspending grant awards at the University of California, Los Angeles. An NSF spokesperson said that the university’s awards “are not in alignment with current NSF priorities and/or programmatic goals,” though they didn’t offer more specifics. NSF changed its priorities in April and, as a result, cut off funding to programs related to diversity, equity and inclusion and those aimed at combating misinformation
7/31/25Science
With boost to NIH budget, Senate panel rejects Trump’s plan to slash agency
In a stark rejection of President Donald Trump’s plan to dramatically slash federally funded biomedical research in 2026, a Senate funding committee today approved a draft bill that instead gives the National Institutes of Health (NIH) a modest raise of $400 million. It also disregards Trump’s plan to gut the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
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7/31/25The Hill
DOJ memo presses federal funding recipients to nix DEI
Attorney General Pam Bondi said the Trump administration is prepared to restrict funds to entities that use diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) practices — a move likely to impact universities and K-12 schools as well as others
7/31/25The Chronicle
Universities Are Making Deals With Trump. Here’s How They Stack Up.
Below is a high-level breakdown of how the three agreements compare. Some institutions voluntarily adopted policies favored by the Trump administration before reaching settlements — as Columbia did, in appointing a senior vice provost to review its program on Middle Eastern studies and adopting the controversial definition of antisemitism drafted by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance. Those policies are not outlined in the table below.
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7/30/25The Chronicle
Their NIH Grants Are Back. But Nothing Is Back to Normal.
When the National Institutes of Health terminated six of Katie M. Edwards’s grants this year, she decided to join a lawsuit against the government. Doing so, she knew, could bring negative attention to her efforts to prevent violence among LGBTQ+ and Indigenous youth. But as the Trump administration carries out a sweeping attack on scientific research it considers unfavorable, “I had to do it for my staff, for our life-saving work, for broader justice and public-health research,” said Edwards, a social-work professor at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
7/29/25Federal News Network
Government shutdown talk is starting early ahead of a difficult funding fight in Congress this fall
It’s become tradition. Congressional leaders from both major political parties blame each other for a potential government shutdown as the budget year draws to a close. But this year, the posturing is starting extraordinarily early.