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AAU and six other coalitions of associations submit letter of support to Congress urging them to pass the PREVAIL Act.
Patents | Intellectual Property | LettersVanderbilt University expands Opportunity Vanderbilt, offering full-tuition scholarships to admitted students from families with annual incomes of $150,000 or less.
Affordability and Student Aid | Vanderbilt UniversityAAU submitted a letter to House leadership regarding H.R.. 6585, the Bipartisan Workforce Pell Act, expressing a strong opposition to the offset included in the bill that would harm some institutions of higher education.
Higher Education Regulation | Higher Education Legislation | Student Aid Tax Issues | Student Aid | Affordability and Student Aid | LettersWhile AAU would have liked to have seen an increase in NIH funding in FY24, we are pleased that Congress will soon be able to avoid a year-long continuing resolution which will ensure that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) can continue to fund new promising research projects.
Federal Budget | Agency Budgets | National Institutes of Health | Student Aid | Affordability and Student Aid | Press ReleasesAAU and COGR submitted joint comments to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in response to their request on Unlocking the Full Potential of Intellectual Property by Translating More Innovation to the Marketplace.
Patents | LettersThe Double Pell Alliance, of which AAU is a Steering Committee Member, sent a letter to congressional appropriation leaders urging them to double the maximum Pell Grant Award to $13,000.
Higher Education Legislation | Student Aid | Affordability and Student Aid | LettersLast week, the Bayh-Dole Coalition, which includes AAU, honored five innovators whose work helped transform early-stage discoveries at research universities into commercial breakthroughs. Four of the five innovators who received the award have connections to AAU schools.
Patents | Stanford University | The University of Arizona | Cornell University | University of California, Berkeley | Leading Research Universities ReportAAU submitted a letter to Senate Judiciary Committee members in preparation for their mark-up session, urging them to advance the PREVAIL Act, the Patent Eligibility Restoration Act, and the IDEA Act.
Patents | Technology Transfer | Intellectual Property | LettersThe Student Aid Alliance, of which AAU is a member of the Steering Committee, sent a letter to Secretary Miguel Cardona of the U.S. Department of Education and Director Shalanda Young of the Office of Management and Budget urging them to increase federal student aid for the fiscal year 2026 budget…
Federal Budget | Student Aid | Affordability and Student Aid | Higher Education Regulation | LettersThe American Talent Initiative has awarded grants to five AAU institutions to support projects “that break barriers and increase college access and success for lower-income students.”
Affordability and Student Aid | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | Indiana University Bloomington | Georgia Institute of Technology | University of California Santa Cruz | Stony Brook University - The State University of New York | Leading Research Universities Report