The Editors highlight three aspects of OMB’s recently proposed rule changes as particularly striking: that decisions on research funding would be made by political appointees, that funding could ...

Eager to pursue a doctorate after she graduates from Northwestern next year with a double major in computer science and mathematics, Penelope Orwant wanted to gain research experience. So, Orwant ...

Scientists across multiple disciplines are raising the alarm after the White House proposed taking greater control over how ...

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These proposed Office of Management and Budget regulations would render the federal research grant review process opaque ...

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Getty Images An NIH-funded scientist explains the impact of government-mandated freezes on biomedical research. The Conversation — In the early days of the second Trump administration, a directive to ...

As a university researcher focused on education, I have spent hundreds of hours designing studies to help the field and that ...

A new kind of institutional vandalism appeared last month in the form of a 412-page Trump administration regulatory proposal ...

A new study by researchers at Northwestern University has set off alarm bells about the future of academic research, warning that the publication of fraudulent science is growing at a faster rate than ...