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University leadership will continue to monitor this evolving situation and provide updates as needed. For active awards that have funds obligated, continue your good work unless contacted by ORSP or Grants Accounting.  If you receive guidance from your sponsor, please contact ORSP. For added context, an overview of this situation鈥檚 timeline is below:

On Jan. 27: the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued a Memorandum announcing a temporary pause to federal funding programs that 鈥渕ay be implicated by the executive orders鈥� issued by President Trump. 帝王会所 leaders in sponsored research, financial aid and grant-funded outreach programming across the University immediately began reviewing the evolving federal guidance and shared a message with OHIO faculty and staff soon thereafter.

On Jan. 28: The U.S. Department of Education  stating that the pause does not impact individual student aid such as Federal Pell Grants and Federal Direct Loans. Similarly, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs  that GI Bill payments will not be impacted. That same day, a federal judge  on funding to existing programs, which was set to take effect at 5 p.m. the same day.

On Jan. 29: The White House Office of Management and Budget rescinded a memo that had previously announced a temporary pause to federal funding programs that 鈥渕ay be implicated by the executive orders鈥� issued by President Trump. University leadership will continue to monitor this evolving situation and provide updates as needed. 

For active awards that have funds obligated, continue your good work unless contacted by ORSP or Grants Accounting.  If you receive guidance from your sponsor, please contact ORSP.  It is important to understand that there have been pauses like this in the past.  The way this one was executed is quite different than in the past.  It is important for us to have a measured and intentional response.  Most importantly, we should do everything in our power to ensure that the good work that we do continues.

Unless you receive specific guidance from an agency or from ORSP, your current activities should continue as planned.

Until such time you receive specific guidance from ORSP or Grants Accounting, your spending should continue as planned, following all normal policies and procedures.

If you receive specific guidance from agencies regarding your sponsored program's activity, or have specific questions, please contact orsp@ohio.edu. Work with ORSP to understand how it might affect you and review the terms and conditions of your award, the period of performance and the current funds obligated.  

You should continue to pursue funding and prepare proposals for submission with the support of the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs (ORSP; contact orsp@ohio.edu). ORSP can provide specific information for specific proposals as it becomes available. The changing federal landscape may affect certain parts of proposals such as the 鈥淏roader Impacts鈥� section of National Science Foundation proposals.  

All incoming awards are subject to the pause. VPRCA recommends that DGM accounts not be established for new awards until the current situation resolves.

It is important to understand the difference between funds obligated and period of performance.  The period of performance and total award (e.g., three years of funding) is often greater than the obligated funds (often incremental, e.g., 1 year).  At this time we should only spend obligated funds and not anticipated funds.  Hence, if you are waiting on a new obligation, you should not spend anticipated money until we receive a notice that obligates those funds.

For proposals under review, or awards that are pending, the pause will cause a delay in processing these proposals and awards and we must standby until the current situation resolves.

Most sponsored programs work on a cost-reimbursement basis. At this time, the ability to be reimbursed has been limited (like what often happens when there is a government shutdown). The University can (and typically does) operate for a limited time before being reimbursed.  So, for a short time, we can continue to spend funds unless specifically not allowed to by the sponsor. In fact, we are most often obligated to continue the work unless we receive specific (and legal) guidance to not continue the work. The length of the delay will determine how long we can continue to operate with normal expenditures. As the delay continues, certain restrictions may be necessary. However, the goal of the University is to protect people and their funding as long as feasible.

Only when a specific action is received by an agency, e.g., a 鈥淪top work order鈥� or an award termination, will the Division of Research and Creative Activity proceed to stop a grant. As of 1/29/2025 OHIO has received only one Stop work order.

No. All obligated funding will continue. 帝王会所 has not received any project specific stop work orders related to research funded by either NIH or NSF. New awards have been temporarily paused while the agencies review potential changes to their criteria that might be required in response to recently signed executive orders.

At this time, please utilize our federally negotiated rates found here: Budget - Indirect Costs - B05.04 | 帝王会所 Using these rates until further guidance is provided by NIH should not impact the review of the grant.

Once a grant is found to be fundable, there is an award negotiation period during which NIH may review and request revisions to the budget and/or statement of work prior to making an award.

In early February, the University shared a message with all OHIO employees regarding new NIH indirect cost guidance, and we will continue to keep the University community informed of relevant updates as needed.

As this affects only indirect costs, your direct cost budget is intact, and your work can continue according to the statement of work and budget. The University is continuing to assess the effect of reduced indirect cost reimbursement on the business operations of the University as well as the impact to sub-awardees.

In early February, the University shared a message with all OHIO employees regarding new NIH indirect cost guidance, and we will continue to keep the University community informed of relevant updates as needed.

In a shifting federal research landscape, it is important to pay attention not only to what is happening to current funding, but also to what may happen to future funding. 

A  to Michael Kratsios, Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, may help to inform the kinds of future guidance that higher education could receive from the current administration as well new topics of interest to federal funding agencies. Some questions posed by President Trump within this message included: 

1. How can the United States secure its position as the unrivaled world leader in critical and emerging technologies 鈥� such as artificial intelligence, quantum information science, and nuclear technology 鈥� maintaining our advantage over potential adversaries?
2. How can we revitalize America鈥檚 science and technology enterprise 鈥� pursuing truth, reducing administrative burdens, and empowering researchers to achieve groundbreaking discoveries?
3. How can we ensure that scientific progress and technological innovation fuel economic growth and better the lives of all Americans?

University leadership will equally continue to monitor this evolving situation and provide updates as needed.

On Friday, April 11, 2025, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)  it would cut energy-related research by imposing a 15% rate on Facilities and Administrative (F&A) reimbursements on new grants to colleges and universities.

On Monday, April 14, 2025, the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities (APLU),  the  Association of American Universities (AAU) and the American Council on Education (ACE) announced litigation challenging the administration鈥檚 F&A action. The  and a  have been filed, and a joint Statement from the Association of American Universities, Association of Public & Land-grant Universities and American Council on Education regarding this litigation .

University leadership will continue to monitor this evolving situation and provide updates as needed. For active awards that have funds obligated, please continue your good work unless contacted by ORSP or Grants Accounting.  If you receive guidance from your sponsor, please .