Research

Conservatives in and outside of higher ed have long argued that universities lack their perspectives. But empowered Republicans are now deploying tools including legislation and funding threats to force higher ed to incorporate more right-leaning views.

Warning American colleges and universities about increasing foreign threats to research, a group of federal intelligence agencies and the Education...

The Health and Human Services Department has terminated the Minority Biomedical Research Support program, which provided colleges and universities grants...

Expected funding for National Resource Centers, which are dedicated to language and area studies education, never came through this summer. Experts worry this could spell disaster for the already-struggling fields.

The high court said the National Institutes of Health doesn’t have to restore grants it terminated, for now, which could affect similar lawsuits against other federal agencies.

Instead, those who have lost funding can take their claim to a different court. The plaintiffs’ lawyers condemned the decision as a “significant setback for public health.”

As the Trump administration upends federal research, Mizzou aims to raise more than $1 billion to build an advanced nuclear reactor to accelerate production of key ingredients for cancer treatments.

The National Institutes of Health’s director ordered employees to “conduct an individualized review of all current and planned research activities,”...