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Contracts & Grants Fund Accounting Series
Contracts & Grants Accounting Contracts & Grants Fund Accounting Series Contracts and Grants Accountingoffers several classes that focus on fund accounting processes for sponsored projects. These classes are geared toward individuals that are relatively new to managing contract or grant award funds in a university setting but may also be helpful to all those that…
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Follow COGR on LinkedIn 7/31/26Higher Ed Dive $47M NSF pilot to arm Ph.D. students with private industry experience Under the initiative, companies will provide funding so students can conduct dissertation research at their sites for at least a year. 7/30/26Politico Top senators consider blocking Trump’s grant shakeup in spending stopgap Senate leaders are deciding whether to block…
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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…
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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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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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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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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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Follow COGR on LinkedIn 7/20/26Roll Call Critics mount offensive against change to federal grant rules Opposition is building to a sweeping government-wide crackdown on federal grant awards, with opponents threatening litigation over a proposed rule that would put the grant approval process into the hands of political appointees….Dozens of organizations representing grant recipients — who…
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