policy, funding

The country’s new government appears to have heard the call from academics for an independent body to distribute federal research funds.

Voters approved a measure to double the state’s Cancer Prevention & Research Institute of Texas.

Funding cuts provoke concerns about job losses, cancelled research programs, and closed departments.

From travel restrictions and publishing bans to currency collapse, the restoration of US sanctions has left researchers in Iran reeling.

The Jeffrey Epstein scandal has focused attention on funding of higher education institutions by patrons with disgraceful behavior.

A program to encourage transdisciplinary research at top cancer centers has evolved into a counterproductive national strategy for organizing cancer research.

A lack of funding for the country’s main research agency threatens the future of Brazilian scientific research.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson says the immigration program will help the nation remain a science superpower post-Brexit.

Scientists won’t need Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s approval to attend meetings internationally, but researchers continue to struggle amidst budget cuts.

Protestors disapprove of putting scientific institutions under the authority of a government-led committee.

Mike Dunleavy vetoes funding that would have made up 40 percent of the university system’s total budget.

Staff at the UK’s Harwell Institute were notified that a strategy board recommended halting its academic work, but a final decision is months away.

This marks the second known instance in which an institution has acted on NIH’s concern about foreign influence over US-based researchers.

Blocked resources and the suspension of research scholarships threaten the future of Brazilian science, academics say.

The Centers of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence were established in 2005 through several phases of funding, which are reported to end next year.

State and federal ministers say they will pump up science budgets by 3 percent per year for the next decade, as they have done since 2006.

Scientists have attacked the government’s spending policies after it locked down nearly half of the money that had been allocated for science funding.

Overall, men received more money on average, but R01s were an exception.

For many, it’s not a question of when senior academics should leave their posts, it’s about how to distribute scarce resources such as grants and faculty positions more fairly.