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Re:U Pittsburgh pauses all PhD admissions amid DOGE funding ... by PhotonHunter on Saturday February 22, 2025 @10:12PM (#43146079)
This is incorrect: while some NIH and NSF grants require an academic institution as the prime or sole awardee there are many that are open to private organizations and others that are mandated to be specific to small businesses (SBIR).
Re:U Pittsburgh pauses all PhD admissions amid DOGE funding ... by costigan on Saturday February 22, 2025 @10:56PM (#43146358)
Research funding awarded to universities and to performers internal to NASA (back when there was a reasonable amount of that) had overhead rates that were similar to the NIH rates. When I worked at Xerox PARC, we would perform research for other parts of the company and charged overhead too, although the rate was a little lower (around 40%). Institutional overhead has been a regular feature of how research has been organized and funded for 60 years. Change is fine, but most of the costs are legitimate, and it takes time for the rest of the system to adjust to changes in one part of it. Doing it abruptly is damaging the system and will negatively impact the careers of many students and young researchers.