Fed Update: COGR News Digest

Fed 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…

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Latest Updates in Human Research Protections (HRP)

Latest 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An archived version of this message may be found at news.research.uci.edu Human Research Protections  Latest Updates in  Human Research Protections  (HRP) Effective August 1,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…

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Fed Update: COGR News Digest

Fed 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…

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UC 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…

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Seeking the whole truth

Seeking 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:…

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Fed Update: COGR News Digest

Fed 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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NCURA Webinars

NCURA Webinars

Dear Colleagues: The Office of Research is providing the campus community with free access to the following upcoming live virtual NCURA webinars. To register, please use the corresponding unique registration links listed below. Please do not share these links with anyone outside the UC Irvine community. You must register using your “uci.edu” email address, or…

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