Topline: The federal government gives billions of dollars in research grants to universities every year, but not all of it ...

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is by far the largest provider of federal R&D funding to American universities. This month the agency issued new rules concerning how those funds are to be ...

Jay Greene is a senior research fellow in the Center for Education Policy at The Heritage Foundation. Defenders of 60% overhead rates, however, insist that they absolutely need this money to cover ...