US EditionEditorial: University funding should be reformed, not reduced
- The administration proposed cutting the indirect rate for university research to 15% last month.
- Rising indirect costs prompted the current White House to seek changes in research funding.
- Negotiations between universities and federal officials determine the indirect cost rate.
- NIH spent over $35 billion on grants in 2023; more than 25% covered indirect costs.
- Some universities are reducing staff and pausing trials, fearing significant annual losses.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt, the president who wanted to return America to his people
"The only thing we must be afraid of is... the fear itself – the unnamed, unreasonable, unwarranted fear that paralyzes the efforts necessary to turn the diversion into progress." From his inaugural speech of his first term, in March 1933, when the United States was plunged into an unprecedented crisis, Roosevelt imposed a new tone, made of hope, trust and conciliation. He would guide his action during his four legislatures, until his death in A…
Roanoke Times
Defunding R&D is a mistake
Six months before World War II ended in Europe, President Franklin D. Roosevelt wrote a letter to his top science adviser. Could the wealth of technical knowledge developed for combat, he asked, spur the peacetime economy and improve public health?…
Pioneer Press
Tyler Morning TelegraphOther voices: University funding should be reformed, not reduced
Six months before World War II ended in Europe, President Franklin D. Roosevelt wrote a letter to his top science adviser. Could the wealth of technical knowledge developed for combat, he asked, spur the peacetime economy and improve public health? The resulting treatise, presented to Congress in 1945, established the nation’s commitment to funding university research. Today, the federal government covers more than half of universities’ R&D spen…
University funding should be reformed, not reduced
Six months before World War II ended in Europe, President Franklin D. Roosevelt wrote a letter to his top science adviser. Could the wealth of technical knowledge developed for combat, he asked, spur the peacetime economy and improve public health?…
Hastings Tribune
ItemliveEditorial: University funding should be reformed, not reduced
Six months before World War II ended in Europe, President Franklin D. Roosevelt wrote a letter to his top science adviser. Could the wealth of technical knowledge developed for combat, he asked, spur the peacetime economy and improve public health?…
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