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Fed Update: COGR News Digest
Follow COGR on LinkedIn Inside Higher Ed 7/29/26 Group Says AHRQ Grant Cancellations Top $131M Across 28 States The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has now canceled more than 100 grants, cutting off $131.3 million in remaining committed funding, according to AcademyHealth , which represents health-services and health-policy researchers. AHRQ funds efforts to improve America’s…
Read MoreKR Downtime TONIGHT: 7pm-8pm
Dear Colleagues, Kuali Research (KR) will be down tonight from 7PM thru 8PM for the monthly deploy. Please save your work and exit out of the systems prior to the downtime. Please contact the ERA Team if you have any questions. Thanks, The ERA Team Need Help? Open a ticket – ERA Support Desk (New!)…
Read MoreYouTube Tuesday: Audit-Resistant Budgeting Practices – What Auditors Look For
YouTube Tuesday: Audit-Resistant Budgeting Practices – What Auditors Look For Watch Now The post YouTube Tuesday: Audit-Resistant Budgeting Practices – What Auditors Look For appeared first on News & Announcements.
Read MoreFed Update: COGR News Digest
Follow COGR on LinkedIn 7/27/26ProPublica How Trump’s “America First” Administration Could Shut U.S. Scientists Out of the Next Nobel-Worthy Discovery A proposed White House rule would give political appointees unprecedented control over scientific funding. One physicist, who helped discover the Higgs boson, explains how the rule would’ve stifled that breakthrough. 7/27/26NOT-OD-26-094 NIH Is Replacing Letters…
Read MoreLatest Updates in Human Research Protections (HRP)
An archived version of this message may be found at news.research.uci.edu Human Research Protections Latest Updates in Human Research Protections (HRP) Effective August 1, 2026: HRP has made the following changes applicable to all new submissions submitted in ZOT IRB. After August 1, 2026, if an older template is used, Principal Investigators (PI) will be…
Read MoreFed Update: COGR News Digest
Follow COGR on LinkedIn 7/24/26Inside Higher Ed, COGR President Matt Owens Quoted White House Seeks to Steer More Research Funding Away From Academia The report should be read in the wider context of the administration’s cuts to federal research funding and policy changes, said Matt Owens, president of COGR, ….“If enacted, the report—together with the…
Read MoreUC Irvine researchers create California wildfire damage risk map
A new study in Science Advances by UC Irvine researchers reveals that wildfires follow predictable patterns of destruction and that structural elements such as fences, siding and eaves contribute greatly to the risk of fires spreading. A first-of-its-kind, 100-meter-resolution risk map developed by the UC Irvine team can aid in land-use planning, fire mitigation investments…
Read MoreSeeking the whole truth
For most of modern biology’s history, progress meant dissecting things, identifying the gene, isolating a protein, naming the cell type. This approach yielded remarkable results – a century of Nobel Prizes, lifesaving medicines and the sequencing of the human genome. But for all that it revealed, reductionist biology struggled to answer a more fundamental question:…
Read MoreZOT IRB & ZOT hSCRO – Stage Environment Refresh | Tonight, 6/23 Starting After 6:00 PM PST
Dear ZOT IRB and ZOT hSCRO Users, This is a friendly reminder that the Stage environment refresh is scheduled for tonight, Thursday, July 23rd, beginning after 6:00 PM PST. Please anticipate approximately 1.5 to 2 hours of downtime, during which the Stage environment will be inaccessible. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and…
Read MoreFed Update: COGR News Digest
Follow COGR on LinkedIn 7/22/26Reuters US to spend $5 billion on health, construction research powered by AI The U.S. will spend $5 billion to tackle long-standing scientific problems across multiple fields using AI, the Trump administration said in a statement on Wednesday. The agencies will use the funding to identify the root causes of…
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