WashU Announcements
- Agency Communications – 3/6/2025
- Principles for the Research University of Our Time – 2/18/2025
- Indirect Cost Guidance – 2/11/2025
- Update on research funding – 2/8/2025
- Conducting research while temporary restraining orders are litigated – 2/6/2025
- Federal Grant Funding Process – 2/3/2025
- Update on Federal Directives – 1/28/2025
- Response to Pause by Federal Agencies – 1/23/2025
Executive Actions
Overview of All Executive Actions
- Presidential Actions – The White House
- COGR’s Summary of Executive Orders – Includes details about EOs that impact research and/or grants and contracts.
- APLU Overview of President Trump’s Executive Orders – Association of Public and Land-grant Universities – 1/23/2025
Executive Actions Most Impacting Research
- Improving Education Outcomes by Empowering Parents, States, and Communities – 3/20/2025
- Eliminating Waste and Saving Taxpayer Dollars by Consolidating Procurement – 3/20/2025
- Restoring Public Service Loan Forgiveness – 3/7/2025
- Memorandum Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Ensures the Enforcement of Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 65(c) – 3/6/2025
- Implementing the President’s “Department of Government Efficiency” Cost Efficiency Initiative – 2/26/2025
- Ensuring Accountability for All Agencies – 2/18/2025
- Radical Transparency About Wasteful Spending – 2/18/2025
- Keeping Education Accessible and Ending COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates in Schools – 2/15/2025
- Establishing the President’s Make America Healthy Again Commission – 2/13/2025
- Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-based Opportunity – 1/21/2025
- Ending Radical And Wasteful Government DEI Programs And Preferencing – 1/20/2025
- Reevaluating and Realigning United States Foreign Aid – 1/20/2025
Federal Agency Guidance
CDC – Centers for Disease Control & Prevention
- DEI Restrictions (Domestic) – 1/29/2025 – Rescinded
CHCO – Chief Human Capital Officers Council
- Initial Guidance Regarding DEIA Executive Orders – 1/21/2025
DOD – Department of Defense
DOE – Department of Energy
- Suspension of DEI, CBP, PIER, and Justice40 – 1/31/2025
- Agency-wide Review of Program and Administrative Activities – 1/20/2025
DHHS – Department of Health and Human Services
NASA – National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- [NASA Watch] Janet Petro NASA Update – 2/21/2025
- Amendment 109: Removing DEIA Requirements from ROSES-2024
NIH – National Institutes of Health
- RESCINDED: NOT-OD-20-178 – Requirement for Trainee Diversity Report to be Submitted Electronically for Institutional Research Training, Career Development, and Research Education Awards Beginning in Early FY 2021 – Rescinded 3/17/2025
- NOT-OD-25-068, “Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates” – 2/7/2025
- [Associated Press] Judge extends temporary block to huge cuts in National Institutes of Health research funding 2/21/2024
- PA-23-189, “Research Supplements to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research” – Expired
NIJ – National Institute of Justice
- NIJ has cancelled all previously posted Notices of Funding Opportunity and associated webinars – 1/27/2025
NSF – National Science Foundation
- Temporary Restraining Order (directed to Federal grant-making agencies) – 1/31/2025
- Executive Order Implementation webpage – 1/28/2025
OPM – Office of Personnel Management
Resources
AAMC – Association of American Medical Colleges
COGR – Council on Government Relations
- 2025 Administration Transition Information & Resources
- COGR’s Summary of Executive Orders
- Unnecessary Disruptions to Federally Supported Research – 2/18/2025
- COGR Letters to Trump Administration on Reducing Red Tape Affecting Research (email) – 1/29/2025
For additional information: WashU-Key Protected Research Page