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Fed Update: COGR News Digest
Follow COGR on LinkedIn 9/30/26Nature Beware sham scientific societies: the research community must be more vigilant On 25 September, Nature published an exclusive investigation into a network of academic societies that have swelled their membership ranks using suspect practices (see Nature https://doi.org/rrcd; 2026)…. Nature’s investigation revealed a tangle of deceptive practices. Although the organizations might…
Read MoreYouTube Tuesday: Best Practices – Improving Controls and Stewardship of Federal Funds
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Read MoreWhen it comes to El Niño, it’s best to be prepared
UC Irvine researchers are tracking a looming El Niño event in the Pacific Ocean. The phenomenon could bring heavy surf, higher-than-usual tides and abundant rainfall, leading to flooding. Public health specialists offer advice on how to protect yourself and your family in the event of extreme weather originating with El Niño. El Niño is a…
Read MoreNSF advances plan to build world’s most powerful laser
The National Science Foundation has awarded a round of funding toward a total of $13.7 million to advance the development of the world’s most powerful laser into its final design phase. The NSF Optical Parametric Amplifier Line laser facility, being developed with participation by UC Irvine researchers, will serve as a shared resource by the…
Read MoreFed Update: COGR News Digest
Follow COGR on LinkedIn 9/25/26Inside Higher Ed Higher Ed Groups Bash ED Proposal to Allow More Grant Terminations The one-month public comment period on the proposal ended just before midnight Wednesday, and many prominent higher ed groups don’t like the changes. For one, they say ED seems to be attempting to adopt major parts of…
Read MoreEfi Foufoula-Georgiou elected to the Royal Academy of Engineering
Irvine, Calif., Sept. 24, 2026 — Efi Foufoula-Georgiou, Distinguished Professor of civil and environmental engineering and Samueli Endowed Chair in engineering at the University of California, Irvine, has been elected an international fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. She is among 75 new fellows elected this year to the United Kingdom-based Royal Academy of…
Read MoreZOT IRB/hSCRO – Unscheduled Maintenance TONIGHT (Wednesday, September 23, 2026)
Dear ZOT IRB/hSCRO users, Please be aware that ZOT IRB and ZOT hSCRO will be undergoing UNSCHEDULED maintenance tonight. Date: Wednesday, September 23rd, 2026 Time: 7:00 PM PST for approximately 4-6hours During this window, users may experience brief disruptions to the ZOT IRB and ZOT hSCRO systems. However, a full service outage is not anticipated.…
Read MoreStealth tactic makes chemotherapy smarter
Research team designed an experimental prodrug that delivers its toxic, cancer-killing payload inside cells with high immunoproteasome activity, which occurs with certain cancers. Healthy cells are largely unaffected by the masked drug, which is inactive until it enters a cancer cell. In a preclinical model of small cell lung cancer, the treatment significantly reduced tumor…
Read MoreFed Update: COGR News Digest
Follow COGR on LinkedIn 9/23/26Inside Higher Ed Commercialized Federal Research Has Generated Trillions, Study Finds Federally funded research continues to yield big payoffs for the broader national economy, new data shows. Between 2021 and 2025, the commercialization of university and nonprofit research that benefited from federal funding added as much as $577 billion to gross economic…
Read MoreYouTube Tuesday: Common NSF OIG Audit Findings
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