Indirect costs (Facilities and Administrative (F&A) costs) are charged to externally sponsored awards, unless specifically prohibited by the funding agency. A percentage of indirect (F&A) costs ...

Senior Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation and Dean of Institutes, Massimo Ruzzene, and Senior Vice Chancellor for Business, Finance and Infrastructure, Todd Haggerty, announced that CU ...

Compared to private industry contractors and federal laboratories, universities receive less from the federal government to cover costs indirectly related to research, according to a study ...

Activities funded by external sponsors or separately budgeted internal programs that are formally organized to produce research outcomes. These are clearly structured and often require detailed budget ...

Illustration of a university building in front of dollar bills partially obscuring Donald Trump’s face. In response to indirect cost rate caps, higher education organizations created a new model that ...

Two months after the National Institutes of Health unilaterally capped indirect research cost reimbursement rates at 15 percent—which a federal judge has permanently blocked—the Department of Energy ...

On May 2, 2025, the National Science Foundation (“NSF”) issued a “Policy Notice: Implementation of Standard 15% Indirect Cost Rate” (NSF 25-034) (hereinafter “Policy Notice”) adopting a uniform 15% ...