Federal Research Updates
This web page contains selected updates and resources related to Federal Executive Orders and other federal actions impacting federally funded research. This page will be updated regularly as new developments arise.
Select Executive Orders
The following are some recent executive orders that may have implications for New York Tech-sponsored research activity. The university is in the process of reviewing and interpreting the executive orders to try to anticipate their potential implementation and impact.
- January 21, 2025: Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-based Opportunity
- January 20, 2025: Ending Radical And Wasteful Government DEI Programs And Preferencing
- January 20, 2025: Reevaluating and Realigning United States Foreign Aid
Federal Agency Announcements
- March 6, 2025: NIH centralizes peer review to improve efficiency and strengthen integrity (NIH Press Release)
- February 7, 2025: National Institutes of Health (NIH): Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates
- February 1, 2025: Department of Health and Human Services: Notice of Court Order and Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
- January 28, 2025: Department of Defense: Statement Clarifying Defense Contracting Department of Energy (DOE)
- January 28, 2025: U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF): NSF Implementation of Recent Executive Orders
- January 27, 2025: U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science: Executive Order update to Promoting Inclusive and Equitable Research (PIER) Plan requirement
- January 24, 2025: United States Agency for International Development (USAID): Notice on Implementation of Executive Order: Reevaluating and Realigning United States Foreign Aid
- January 23, 2025: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA): Initial Guidance Regarding Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Accessibility (DEIA) Executive Orders National Science Foundation (NSF)
News Resources
- March 11, 2025: NIH to terminate or limit grants related to vaccine hesitancy and uptake (MSN)
- March 11, 2025: Education Department cutting nearly half of workforce (CNN)
- March 10, 2025: NIH to ax grants on vaccine hesitancy (Science)
- March 7, 2025: U.S. cancels $400 million in grants, contracts to Columbia University over Gaza protests (CNBC)
- March 6, 2025: Exclusive: NIH to terminate hundreds of active research grants (Nature)
- March 5, 2025: Federal judge blocks (AP News)
- March 5, 2025: Judge issues preliminary injunction blocking Trump cuts to NIH research overhead payments (STAT news)
- February 26, 2025: NIH partially lifts freeze on funding process for medical research (NPR)
- February 21, 2025: Revealed: NIH research grants still frozen despite lawsuits challenging Trump order (Nature)
- February 21, 2025: Federal judge extends order blocking Trump NIH research cuts (STAT)
- February 21, 2025: Judge extends temporary block to huge cuts in National Institutes of Health research funding (AP News)
- February 13, 2025: Senate confirms Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Secretary of Health and Human Services (USA Today)
- February 12, 2025: Trump administration's NIH layoffs total 1,165 people, internal email shows (Reuters)
- February 10, 2025: Judge blocks Trump administration's move to cut billions in NIH scientific funding (ABC News)
- February 10, 2025: NIH Cuts On Hold After States Sue (Inside Higher Ed)
- February 8, 2025: Roundup: Statements and Coverage Re: NIH Funding Cuts (Library Journal)
- February 8, 2025: NIH Caps Indirect Costs at Flat Rate (NACUBO)
- February 4, 2025: Federal Judge Issues Restraining Order on Trump Administration (Newsweek)
- February 3, 2025: CDC orders pullback of new scientific papers involving its researchers (Reuters)
- February 3, 2025: NIH eases freeze on grant reviews imposed after Trump communications pause (Science)
- January 29, 2025: Trump administration rescinds order attempting to freeze federal aid spending (NBC News)
- January 28, 2025: Trump aid freeze stirs chaos before it is blocked in court (Reuters)
- January 28, 2025: What Trump's funding freeze could mean for universities, nonprofits, and more (AP)
- January 27, 2025: Trump administration orders sweeping freeze of federal aid (Politico)
- January 22, 2025: Trump hits NIH with 'devastating' freeze on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring (Science)