Jay Greene is a senior research fellow in the Center for Education Policy at The Heritage Foundation. Defenders of 60% overhead rates, however, insist that they absolutely need this money to cover ...

SALT LAKE CITY — A federal judge temporarily blocked a new Trump administration rule that would cap the amount of overhead costs universities and researchers could charge the federal government. Last ...

Late last Friday, Feb. 7, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced it was immediately capping overhead rates on all research grants at 15%. Because most research universities rely on overhead ...

Universities are protesting the Trump administration’s plan to limit the overhead, also known as indirect costs, covered by federal research grants. They argue this change violates a long-standing ...

The Ford Foundation works with thousands of nonprofits, each with different needs and structures. Yet its program grants pay for related indirect costs at a single rate — 20 percent of the grant. Such ...

Lasers operate in a University at Albany lab in the RNA Institute where chemistry professor Igor Lednev and his son, Alex, are working on a procedure to rapidly detect Alzheimer's from saliva.

As a professor at UC Santa Barbara, I research the effects of and solutions to ocean pollution, including oil seeps, spills and offshore DDT. I began my career by investigating the interaction of ...

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) issued guidance capping the “indirect costs” of all NIH grants at 15%. Universities such as Stanford, University of Pennsylvania, and Harvard have been ...

There’s an important battle brewing over university overhead rates. Sounds boring, right? But hang with me and you’ll see why this is so crucially important to America. It will determine whether ...

A group of 22 attorneys general achieved a temporary victory Monday in their lawsuit against the Trump administration’s announcement that the percentage of NIH research grant funding that goes to pay ...

Massachusetts Hall is located in Harvard Yard and houses the University president's office. As indirect costs from the National Institutes of Health hang in legal limbo, Harvard's rate has come under ...