Scholarship & Research
Our news, opinion, and advice stories about scholarship and research answer your questions, like:
- What is the latest trend or scandal in your field’s research?
- How can you maximize your research time as a scholar?
- Who are the scholars shaping the work your field?
Policy 'Whiplash'
Scientists and institutions are struggling to navigate new conditions for receiving funding from the National Institutes of Health and other federal agencies.
Newly Updated
The Chronicle is tracking executive orders, statements from Trump, and agency actions that affect higher education, plus legal challenges directed at those measures. Here’s the latest.
Red-state reticence
Emails obtained by The Chronicle offer a rare and revealing look inside a red-state university’s deliberations over a policy change that would mean stark funding reductions.
'Really serious questions'
The program’s fate offers one example of how Harvard’s promises to deal with campus antisemitism look on the ground.
Advice
An acquisitions editor offers eight tips for marketing-shy academics.
The Review | Essay
Ada Palmer re-examines the origins of modernity.
'Life Support'
Some foundations are offering much-needed stopgaps for researchers. But that’s not a permanent fix, scientists and advocates say.
A 'Painful' Choice
HIV scientists were given a choice: eliminate a study of transgender youth or lose a shot to recover a larger series of grants. They chose the former.
The Review | Essay
Paul Elie’s new book revisits a contentious decade.