Around 85% of researchers who applied for grants from a German funder have given the thumbs up to ‘distributed peer review’, a new process in which applicants are asked to review proposals by other ...

The Trump administration’s blocking of new grant awards via the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has the potential to be a life and death decision. The fact is federal grants underlie U.S.

Just 11 U.S. universities received 25% of all the federal research funding awarded to universities and colleges in 2021. And of these top research-funded universities, nine of them are located on ...

The National Institutes of Health longstanding "payline" has helped everyone see the connection between the scientific peer review process and NIH grant funding decisions. What will the latest NIH ...

Research funding agencies are battling a wave of AI-assisted applications. Countermeasures should not entrench existing power ...

9:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Join the Black Perspectives Office and the School of Graduate Studies for Mastering the Art of Research Proposals (Part 2): Peer Review and Feedback Session. Have a draft ...

Since Inauguration Day, the Trump administration has repeatedly frozen and terminated research funding for seemingly political reasons. Federal agencies have ended grants for studies because they ...

In a move projected to save the National Institutes of Health more than $65 million, the agency late last week announced a plan to centralize peer review of applications for grants and contracts under ...

UCL researchers have warned that advanced AI agents could flood funding bodies with high-quality grant proposals, straining systems designed before such technology existed. They argue that both ...

The American Chemical Society updated eight of its policy statements in 2025. These statements reflect ACS’s official positions on important issues and provide a way to help address national and ...