Find all Leading Research Universities Reports below. The Leading Research Universities report is a free newsletter covering events in higher education and research.
The move will effectively displace more than 1,800 NSF employees over the course of the next two years and threatens to disrupt crucial research at the agency.
Several countries are trying to attract scientists in the United States with programs that offer support in the form of research funding, relocation services, and access to state-of-the-art labs.
The bill proposes changes to student loan programs and an expansion of the endowment tax.
The National Institutes of Health halted grant terminations after a federal judge in Boston ruled that some of those terminations were arbitrary and capricious and, therefore, “void and illegal.”
“Many of us have founded companies and launched ground-breaking products based on campus discoveries, spanning biomedical engineering, gene therapy, pharmaceuticals, digital infrastructure, and aerospace technologies,” the business leaders wrote in an open letter.
The Senate HELP Committee's bill could have major implications for college access and affordability.
The organizations argued that the funding freezes are unlawful executive actions that violate the separation of powers and seek to punish Harvard for refusing to cede control of its governance and operations and for refusing to adhere to the administration’s preferred ideological alignment.
The Bayh-Dole Coalition's newly released 2025 Faces of American Innovation report highlights researchers whose federally funded inventions have made a global impact.
“Unless we want the 21st century to be the China century, we need to innovate,” said National Academy of Sciences President Marcia McNutt in her second annual "State of the Science" address.
The White House's FY26 budget proposal includes steep cuts to science and education programs across the federal government.