Federal Research Funding Updates 2025
Federal Research Funding Updates 2025
Federal Research Funding Updates 2025
Last updated 4/9/2025
This webpage is regularly updated as new information becomes available. Please monitor this page frequently for developments.
Current status: Proposal submissions and related grant activities (drawdowns, indirect rates, etc.) are operating according to the University’s standard procedures.
The Division of University Research is closely monitoring federal government updates, including Executive Orders, communications and guidance from federal agencies and organizations, including the American Council on Education (ACE), the Council on Government Relations (COGR) and the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities (APLU). We will inform the University community of any changes that may impact research, training programs, and federal contracts processed through the division.
For more information on University-wide operations, please visit the Office of the Provost's Addressing federal policy changes affecting our community webpage.
Contact us
If you receive information that is not listed on this page or receive communications from a funding agency directly relating to the funding of your project, please contact the Office of Research Development at ord@rowan.edu. Multiple people regularly monitor this email inbox and we will contact you to follow up as soon as we are able.
Guidance for researchers
- Until we communicate to you the results of the final judicial decision on the NIH's Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy, please continue to use the University's published federally negotiated rates (the same rates that were in place prior to the decreased NIH rate). We will notify PI's if any adjustments to those rates are forthcoming or required, or if other federal sponsors also undertake efforts to adjust the IDC.
- Proposal submissions and related grant activities (drawdowns, indirect rates, etc.) are operating according to the University’s standard procedures.
- Monitor obligated budget balances to avoid deficits while awaiting future obligations.
- Review the terms in your grant agreement, particularly those related to funding availability.
- Stay current with your submission deadlines as they may be subject to change (those deadlines may include progress reports, etc.).
- Prioritize the submission of any reports or deliverables that may be past due. Avoid late reporting and be diligent with respect to submission deadlines, milestones, and deliverables.
- Monitor policy announcements from the federal agency overseeing your grant for any updates on funding or compliance requirements.
- Be cognizant that some of these disruptions may impact your project if you are not the prime awardee, but are sub-awardee from a prime that receives federal funding (e.g., New Jersey as a recipient of federal funds, and you being a recipient of those funds through the State’s funding portal).
- Unless you have received a directive to stop activity, please continue with research, scholarship and grant activities as consistent with your award. If you receive a directive, please contact the Office of Research Development at ORD@rowan.edu.
FAQs
These frequently asked questions have been assembled, and will continue to be updated, based on common questions received by the Division of University Research, and have been informed by ongoing guidance and requirements from federal sponsors.
- Frequently asked questions, updated February 11, 2025
Agency announcements
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
- 2/7/2025: NOT-OD-25-068 : Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates
- 2/7/2025: COGR: Memo on NIH Indirect Cost Rates
- 2/10/2025: The District Court of Massachusetts issued a temporary restraining order (TRO), halting the NIH's decrease of the indirect rate cap issued on February 7.
- 2/21/2025: The District Court of Massachusetts extended the court’s temporary restraining order as the plaintiffs’ request for a preliminary injunction is considered.
- 3/5/2025: The District Court of Massachusetts issued TRO (which had been placed on guidance issued by the NIH capping indirect rates to 15%) was changed to a preliminary injunction (PI), which prolongs the effects of the TRO on this issue.
- 3/26/2025: Implementation of New Initiatives and Policies
- 4/4/2025: The District Court of Massachusetts issued a permanent injunction barring the NIH from capping funding for indirect research costs at a 15% rate.
National Science Foundation (NSF)
- NSF Implementation of Recent Executive Orders, including a message to NSF principal investigator community, updated regularly
- Frequently asked questions, updated regularly
Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)
- 1/21/2025: DHHS paused external communications through February 1. This directive applies to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) and all DHHS agencies and offices.
- 2/1/2025: Notice of Court Order & Temporary Restraining Order
- 3/27/2025: DHHS Announces Transformation to Make America Healthy Again
Department of Education
- 3/20/2025: Executive Order stating, “The Secretary of Education shall, to the maximum extent appropriate and permitted by law, take all necessary steps to facilitate the closure of the Department of Education and return authority over education to the States and local communities.”
Department of Defense
- 3/25/2025: Updates on directives for Congressional Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP), including frequently asked questions
Department of Energy
Department of State and USAID
- 1/26/2025: Implementing the President's Executive Order on Reevaluating and Realigning United States Foreign Aid
- 3/5/2025: The Supreme Court of the United States affirmed a lower court’s ruling that the federal government must resume foreign aid payments.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
- Global Contractor and Grantee Community Memos
- Message to the NASA Grantee Community
- Grants Policy and Compliance
Policy updates
The following are select recent Executive Orders issued that may have implications for sponsored research activity. The University will share additional Executive Orders and relevant guidance as they become available.
Resources
- COGR: 2025 Administration Transition Information and Resources, updated regularly