UC Irvine earns four top-50 subject rankings in U.S. News Best Global Universities for 2026-27

UC Irvine continues to strengthen its standing among the world’s leading research institutions, earning top-50 spots in four disciplines in the 2026-27 U.S. News & World Report Best Global Universities rankings released today. The campus was rated 99th globally and 38th nationally among U.S. institutions in the annual assessment, which evaluates 2,250 universities in 100-plus…

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Fed Update: COGR News Digest

Fed Update: COGR News Digest

Follow COGR on LinkedIn 6/15/26Higher Ed Dive   20 attorneys general sue Trump administration over federal contractor DEI order Twenty attorneys general filed a lawsuit on Wednesday (Maryland, et al. v. Hegseth et al. ) challenging the March 26  executive order regarding diversity, equity and inclusion  programs among federal contractors 6/14/26New York Times   Legal…

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UC Irvine researcher receives $1.8 million NIH grant to study cancer risks from low-dose radiation exposure

Irvine, Calif., June 15, 2026 — With a $1.8 million grant from the National Cancer Institute, David Richardson, associate dean of research and professor of environmental and occupational health in the Joe C. Wen School of Population & Public Health at the University of California, Irvine, will investigate the long-term cancer risks associated with low-dose exposure…

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Fed Update: COGR News Digest

Fed Update: COGR News Digest

Follow COGR on LinkedIn 6/12/26STAT, Opinion, AAMC President David Skorton   I’ve spent 40 years in research. I have never seen a threat to science like the new grantmaking rule In my more than 40 years in higher education and research, I have watched the American approach to research weather budget fights, ideological storms, and…

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Fed Update: COGR News Digest

Follow COGR on LinkedIn 6/10/26Science   ‘Weird and capricious’: Experts struggle to understand new list of political jobs at science agencies The list is “weird and capricious,” says Carrie Wolinetz, a lobbyist with Lewis-Burke Associates and former chief of staff to Francis Collins when he was director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). One…

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Forthcoming Revisions to NASA Disclosure Forms

Forthcoming Revisions to NASA Disclosure Forms

Dear Colleagues: I am forwarding the update from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) below regarding a new Research Security Training attestation. Beginning August 5, 2026, an attestation will be required, to be completed by signing a certification included in the updated NASA Biographical Sketch and Current and Pending (Other) Support forms. Advance copies…

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Follow COGR on LinkedIn 6/8/26Inside Higher Ed   Police Remove Researchers From Diabetes Conference Police removed five researchers from the annual American Diabetes Association meeting in New Orleans on Friday as they distributed copies of an editorial criticizing the Trump administration for decimating America’s biomedical research enterprise,  MedPage Today first reported . Washington PostSee also Diabetes…

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Fed Update: COGR News Digest

Follow COGR on LinkedIn 6/5/26Nature Europe is ditching US tech — what does this mean for researchers? European governments are choosing European digital tools — and some universities and researchers are doing the same….Several European countries have already been moving away from US technologies, and some researchers are feeling the effects of these shifts. 6/5/26Axios…

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