Updates on Federal Executive Orders and Research Activities

This webpage is dynamic and updated frequently. Please check back often.

Last updated July 9, 2025

 

Guidelines for the Research Community

The Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation (OVPRI) continues to monitor the 2025 presidential administration transition. Below are some helpful guidelines.

  • Closely monitor obligated budget balances to avoid deficits while awaiting future obligations. Anticipated future funding remains subject to availability of funds and should not be considered guaranteed.
  • If you are waiting to hear back from a program officer, please be aware they may not be able to respond during the agency communications pause.
  • Ensure all technical reports and deliverables are submitted by their due dates and prioritize the submission of any that are past due.
  • Monitor policy updates: Keep an eye on announcements from the federal agency overseeing your grant for any updates on funding or compliance requirements.
  • Principal investigators are encouraged to ensure that they have access to and control over datasets.
  • Continue to submit proposals. Closely monitor the funding announcement to see if the proposal criteria changes.
  • OVPRI and the Office of General Counsel ask that you forward any communications from granting agencies relating to stop work orders, modifications to existing grants, requests for attestations, and spending justification requests.

OVPRI has adopted a process to appeal the termination of contracts and grants by federal agencies (requires DuckID to log in).

Additionally, the UO continues to monitor and communicate any immigration updates, and their potential impact to our international, Dreamer, and undocumented students, faculty, and staff.

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Recent Federal Actions

Statements in Response to Federal Actions

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Resources for Researchers

At this time, the Council on Government Relations (COGR) is providing the most complete guidance on how the executive orders could affect operations, including a summary of executive orders. COGR's mission is to empower an unparalleled US academic research ecosystem by advancing sound federal policies and regulations that are vital to US science and innovation leadership and our nation’s health, security, and prosperity. Request access to the COGR membership portal.

Please note this page is dynamic and information could be incomplete.

The Chronicle of Higher Education is tracking the actions of President Trump's administration that affect higher education. Chronicle of Higher Education's Trump's Agenda for Higher Ed Tracker (sign in with your DuckID to access Chronicle content)

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Email Updates

The OVPRI plans to send weekly email updates on Wednesdays.

The following message was sent to graduate students, tenure track and research faculty, department grant administrators, OVPRI centers and institutes, core facility staff, Government and Community Relations, Office of General Counsel, and OVPRI staff on Wednesday, June 18.

NIH reinstates many grants

Grant terminations: 21, totaling $2.7 million
Relevant agencies: NIH, NEA, NEH, NSF, Corporation for National and Community Service
Active appeals: 17
Terminations lifted: 8 (NIH: 7, NSF: 1), totaling $5.1 million 
These figures are current as of 7/9.

I’m delighted to once again begin this message with good news: The National Institutes of Health (NIH) have reinstated many of the grants it terminated earlier this year, including diversity supplements. Additionally, the National Science Foundation (NSF) has reinstated one grant related to equity in computer science education. We are also thrilled to have received a notice of award for an approximately $10 million NIH grant to investigators in the Institute of Molecular Biology, Institute of Neuroscience, Institute of Ecology and Evolution, and the Materials Science Institute on social microbiome assembly, function, and impacts of host health. In general, we are seeing the number of new awards tick up, which gives us hope for the rest of the federal fiscal year. 

Other updates 

The Institute of Education Sciences has issued Grant Award Notifications for several active projects, extending the current fiscal year budget period by 60 days until the US Department of Education can issue a continuation determination. During this time, grantees may use available carryover funds to continue approved grant activities. 

NSF has announced changes to its Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) funding program. Rather than accept proposals during this upcoming fall cycle, the agency is processing proposals from the last fiscal year. Subject to the availability of funds, NSF will instead consider funding additional awards from this cohort in FY26. The NSF MRI program anticipates accepting new proposals again during the next submission window, scheduled for October 15–November 16, 2026. 

Finally, we want to bring to your attention a letter published recently in the journal Science, signed by the chairs of 36 university chemistry departments. The letter calls for the US to support research, noting the economic impact of the chemistry field—specifically its contributions to the development of lithium-ion batteries, vaccines, and polymers—and the millions of jobs it has created. The ongoing advocacy of our colleagues continues to underscore the importance of the American scientific endeavor. 

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