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News and Updates

Stay up to date with the latest news and announcements (internal and external) that impact the research across our campuses. 

Updates on Federal Funding for Research

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. 

Communications from Loyola's Leadership

Chronology of communications relating to the President’s Executive Orders

  • Executive order signed to address restoring gold standard of science (05/23/2025)
  • Executive order signed to address "gain of function" research (05/05/2025)
  • News of the Federal judge’s ruling that limits the ability of administration to withhold funds on the basis of having DEI programs (04/24/2025)
  • Reforming Accreditation to Strengthen Higher Education (04/01/2025)
  • Federal judge issues a Temporary Restraining Order, blocking the administration’s efforts to freeze payments for grants (and other programs) (01/31/2025)
  • White House Press Secretary acknowledges the OMB is rescinded, but states that the executive orders are still in effect (later 01/29/2025)
  • OMB rescinds M-25-13 (Memo M-25-14 Rescinds M-25-13) (01/29/2025)
  • OMB sends a Q & A Document aiming to clarify that the pause on funding of grants, etc. was specific to DEI, gender issues, etc. (01/28/2025)
  • 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. (01/28/2025)
  • 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 (01/27/2025)

General Informational resources related to Executive Orders

NIH Related Updates and Notices

NCE functionality in eRA Commons is back up and running (08/07/2025)

NIH limits number of applications a PI can submit per year (07/22/2025)

NIH offers further clarification on the use of vertebrate animals in research (07/21/2025)

Training and Disclosures Expectations for grant recipients (07/17/2025)

NIH will reinstate 900 grants in response to court order | Science | AAAS (06/26/2025)

NIH notice regarding “Gain-of-Function Research (06/18/2025)

Judge deems Trump's National Institutes of Health grant cuts illegal (06/16/2025)

NIH Grant Terminations Brief (06/10/2025

NOT-OD-25-124: Notice of Rescission of Civil Rights Term and Condition of Award (06/09/2025)

NOT-OD-25-113: Notice of Early Expiration of Notices of Funding Opportunities Related to the Simplified Review Framework for NIH Research Grant Applications (05/20/2025)

Updated NIH Processes for No-Cost Extensions (05/07/2025)

Updated Policy on Foreign Subawards (05/01/2025) 

Plan to diminish support for research involving vertebrate animals (04/29/2025)

Notice of Civil Rights Terms and Conditions for NIH Awards (04/21/2025)

NIH 15% Cap on F&A (Indirect Cost) Reimbursement – Information and Resources

NIH Cost Cutting Measures Blocked (03/05/2025)

Three legal challenges to the NIH notice to cap F&A rates are filed (02/10/2025)

    • 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

NIH releases Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates (02/07/2025)

NSF Related Updates and Notices

Research Security Training (07/10/2025)

Judge Sides With Universities, Blocking NSF’s 15% Indirect Cost Cap (06/25/2025)

16 states sue National Science Foundation over wide-reaching research cuts | Higher Ed Dive (05/30/2025)

Notice of Limiting F&A to 15% (05/02/2025)

NSF temporarily halts funding of new grants (05/01/2025)

NSF Implementation of Recent Executive Orders

Agency-specific Updates

Department of Defense (DOD)

Department of Energy (DOE)

Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)

NASA

F & A Rates updates and information

Newly Proposed F&A Model

Research Database Access on Federal Government Websites

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. 

Last updated 11/17/2025

Stay up to date with the latest news and announcements (internal and external) that impact the research across our campuses. 

Last updated 11/17/2025