News and Updates
If you are contacted by a federal funding agency about your grant, please contact ORS (Angie Vaca (avaca1@luc.edu) for Lakeshore/Water Tower faculty; Sue Pugl (smeyer1@luc.edu) for HSC faculty), with a copy to Dr. Singh (Vice Provost for Research, msingh@luc.edu) before responding to the email/request from the agency.
The information on this page is intended to provide timely updates on presidential executive orders or federal directives that may have an impact on sponsored research at Loyola University Chicago. New information will be added as it is received.
We encourage investigators who are potentially impacted by these directives to contact the Office of Research Services (ORS): researchHSD@LUC.edu for Health Sciences Campus and ors@LUC.edu for Lake Shore and Water Tower campuses.
Please reference below for guidance:
- Given the legal challenge currently in place to halt the implementation of a 15% cap on F&A for Dept of Education grants, pending grant submissions can proceed using the currently negotiated F&A rate for Loyola (45% for Lakeside campuses; 54% for HSC)
- Faculty should alert ORS to any imminent plans to submit grants to the NSF. Guidance will be given on a case-by- case basis to determine the appropriate budget modifications needed.
- Continue to send communications received from federal agencies about your grants (e.g., notices of termination, “stop orders”, recommendations to modify part of your grant, etc., etc.) immediately to ORS, with a copy to Dr. Singh
- Unless you hear from ORS or the Vice Provost for Research, please continue to pursue your research as outlined in your funded proposal
Questions can also be sent to Dr. Meharvan Singh, Vice Provost for Research, at msingh@LUC.edu.
- OVPR Letter - Pause on NIH activities (1/24/25)
- OVPR Letter - LUC continued commitment (1/28/25)
- OVPR Letter - Messages from Fed Agencies (1/31/25)
- OVPR Letter - Initial Indirect Costs Announcement (02/07/25)
- OVPR Letter - Follow-up to Indirect Costs (02/10/25)
- Letter from the Provost (02/27/25)
- OVPR General Funding Updates (03/28/25)
- Letter from the Provost (04/14/25)
- AACU Statement - Co-Signed by more than 300 University Presidents (4/22/25)
- January 27 – Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issues first memo (Memo M-25-13 Temporary Funding Pause that directed federal agencies to put a temporary hold on grant, loan, and other financial assistance
- January 28 – OMB sends a Q & A Document aiming to clarify that the pause on funding of grants, etc. was specific to DEI, gender issues, etc.
- January 28 - U.S. District Judge Loren AliKhan grants a “Temporary Stay Order” that preserves federal disbursements at least until Monday (February 3) at 5 p.m. EST; She will make a ruling on Monday as to whether this block will be extended.
- January 29 – OMB rescinds M-25-13 (Memo M-25-14 Rescinds M-25-13)
- Later on January 29 – White House Press Secretary acknowledges the OMB is rescinded, but states that the executive orders are still in effect
- January 31 – Federal judge issues a Temporary Restraining Order, blocking the administration’s efforts to freeze payments for grants (and other programs)
- April 23 - Reforming Accreditation to Strengthen Higher Education
- April 24 - News of the Federal judge’s ruling that limits the ability of administration to withhold funds on the basis of having DEI programs
- May 5 - Executive order signed to address "gain of function" research
Associated NIH Notice
- Summary of Summary of Executive Orders that are likely to pertain to research (2/4/25) Source: www.cogr.edu
- Informational Video: What is F&A (also known as “indirect costs”) and why is it important to research
May 7, 2025 - Updated NIH Processes for No-Cost Extensions
May 1, 2025 - Updated Policy on Foreign Subawards
April 29, 2025 - Plan to diminish support for research involving vertebrate animals
April 21, 2025 - Notice of Civil Rights Terms and Conditions for NIH Awards
NIH 15% Cap on F&A (Indirect Cost) Reimbursement – Information and Resources
February 7, 2025: NIH releases Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates
February 10, 2025 – three legal challenges to the NIH notice to cap F&A rates are filed
-
- Commonwealth of Massachusetts, representing 22 states and the District of Columbia)
- February 10 – federal judge temporary blocks the NIH from capping F&A rates to 15%
- Association of American Universities (AAU)
- Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC)
- February 10 - U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts granted the AAMC’s motion for a nationwide temporary restraining order , preventing the Feb. 7 notice to cap the NIH’s F&A rate (indirect costs) from going into effect
- Commonwealth of Massachusetts, representing 22 states and the District of Columbia)
March 5, 2025 - NIH Cost Cutting Measures Blocked
May 2, 2025 - Notice of Limiting F&A to 15%
May 1, 2025 - NSF temporarily halts funding of new grants
Department of Energy (DOE)
- Notice from Department of Energy limiting F&A 15% (April 11, 2025)
- Legal Challenge from AAU (April 14, 2025)
- Initial Guidance Regarding DEIA Executive Orders
- Memorandum for All DOE Funding Agreements or Awards: Cease All Activities Associated with DEI and CBP
- Suspension of DEI, CBP, and J40 Activities
Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)
NASA
February 11, 2025
Judge Orders Federal Health Agencies to Restore Public Health Datasets
A U.S. District Judge today issued a temporary order directing that federal health agencies, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Food and Drug Administration (FDA), restore access to public datasets, which had been removed from agency websites in January following a White House executive order on gender ideology.