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A coalition of leading American universities, including Brown University, MIT, Cornell, the University of Michigan, and Michigan State University, is filing a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Energy in response to newly imposed cuts on federal research grant funding. The lawsuit, filed in federal court this week, aims to block a recent policy change that dramatically limits the reimbursement of "indirect costs" associated with scientific research to just 15% of total grant awards.
The universities, along with major education advocacy groups such as the American Council on Education, argue that the Energy Department’s new rule threatens to. . .
