Daniel Blumstein recently sat in a Colorado meadow waiting for yellow-bellied marmots to appear, as the ecologist and evolutionary biologist had done many times before, the New York Times reported. Bu...

Authored by anonymous current and former NIH workers with experience in peer review

Understanding the health consequences of policy is not peripheral to NIH’s mission. It is central to it.

The administration is using a rare and contested power to ax funding for immigrant services and diversity-focused initiatives.

This issue brief provides an overview of the decennial census and discusses potential implications of the changes outlined in a September 2026 proposed rule to prohibit the collection of race and ethn...

Critics said the changes, mostly in the South, moved the nation “back toward the Jim Crow era.” Justice Department officials said the decrees were outdated.

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Reynolds (Ren) Farley, a sociologist and demographer who used Census data to illuminate the persistence of racial segregation in American cities, died on September 12, at 88. He was...

An independent, up-to-date, grant-level record of federal science funding disruptions in the United States.

Campaigning anywhere for any office at any level of government is personally burdensome.

Leadership at the Census Bureau has ordered staff to halt all external...

Democrats and Republicans in Congress opposed the creation of a commission with the power to veto federal research awards.

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The move came after the NIH director refused Trump’s request to cut Harvard grants in an Oval Office meeting.

Shutdown of study is latest for Trump administration, which has canceled, frozen and otherwise disrupted more than 5,700 medical research grants over two years

Three new postdoctoral fellows introduced themselves and their research at this fall’s kickoff brown-bag seminar at the University of Michigan Population Studies Center (PSC). Here’s a look at their w...

Class action lawsuit seeks to stop censorship and termination of federally funded scientific research

By Nihar B. Shah

The Washington Sun covers politics and policy and the people who shape life in Washington — not just at the White House and in Congress, but at the Wilson Building, at Northwest Stadium and in the nei...

In Utah, Trump resurfaced a decades-long dispute over how to protect some of the country’s crown jewels.

Dietram Scheufele resigned after investigators determined he had sexual relationships with two students and engaged in unwelcome sexual conduct with one.

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The Trump administration has been progressively shrinking AHRQ, the only federal agency focused on supporting research to improve the safety and quality of healthcare.

Political appointees of U.S. President Donald Trump have reportedly been “flagging and freezing policy-focused grant applications” to the National Institutes of Health.

The US science-funding agency is withholding $1 billion of its budget so that the money can go to a special White House project.

Under “binning” proposal, applications’ numerical ratings would no longer be used for final funding decisions

The US science-funding agency is withholding $1 billion of its budget so that the money can go to a special White House project.