Federal Research Funding Updates 2025

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Guidance for researchers 

• The Office of Sponsored Programs will coordinate with PI's regarding indirect cost rates.

• 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.

• If you have received communication from a federal agency requiring standard or new certifications, please contact Stephanie Lezotte, AVP for Sponsored Research & Administration at lezotte@rowan.edu.

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Agency announcements

• 5/1/2025: NIH announced that it is pausing making awards that include foreign entities as sub-awardees. Additionally, they will not accept additions of foreign sub-awardees to existing projects. A new foreign subaward process will be implemented in September.
• 5/1/2025: All requests for a No-Cost Extension must be submitted as a prior approval request in eRA Commons for NIH review and approval. Requests for activities that do not align with the NIH mission and agency priorities will not be approved.
• 4/29/2025: NIH has prioritized efforts to reduce the use of animals in research.
• 4/21/2025: NOT-OD-25-090: Notice of Civil Rights Term and Condition of Award
• 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.
• 3/26/2025: Implementation of New Initiatives and Policies
• 2/10/2025: The District Court of Massachusetts issued a temporary restraining order, halting the NIH's decrease of the indirect rate cap.
• 2/7/2025: NOT-OD-25-068: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates

• 5/5/2025: NSF announced a maximum of 15% for all indirect cost recovery moving forward.
• 4/18/2025: NSF Statement of Priorities
• NSF Implementation of Recent Executive Orders, updated regularly
   

• 3/27/2025: DHHS Announces Transformation to Make America Healthy Again
• 2/1/2025: Notice of Court Order & Temporary Restraining Order
• 1/21/2025: DHHS paused external communications through February 1. This directive applies to the NIH, the Food and Drug  Administration (FDA), the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) and all DHHS divisions.

• 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.”

• 3/25/2025: Updates on directives for Congressional Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP), including frequently asked questions

• 4/16/25: The District Court of Massachusetts issued a temporary restraining order, halting the DOE's decrease of the indirect rate cap
• 4/14/2025: PF 2025-22 Adjusting Department of Energy Grant Policy for Institutions of Higher Education
• 1/28/2025: Executive Order Update to PIER Plan Requirement

• 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.
• 1/26/2025: Implementing the President's Executive Order on Reevaluating and Realigning United States Foreign Aid

• Global Contractor and Grantee Community Memos
• Message to the NASA Grantee Community 
• Grants Policy and Compliance

Policy updates 

• Initial Rescissions of Harmful Executive Orders and Actions
• Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferences
• Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-based Opportunity
• Reevaluating and Realigning United States Foreign Aid

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