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Policy 'Whiplash'
Research Grants Increasingly Require Compliance With Trump’s Orders. Here’s How Colleges Are Responding.
By Theo Scheer June 17, 2025
Scientists and institutions are struggling to navigate new conditions for receiving funding from the National Institutes of Health and other federal agencies.
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Newly Updated
Hundreds of NIH Grants Were Terminated Illegally, Federal Judge Finds
By Chronicle Staff June 16, 2025
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.
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Red-state reticence
Facing Research Cuts, Officials at U. of Iowa Spoke of a ‘Limited Ability to Publicly Fight This’
By Megan Zahneis June 16, 2025
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.
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'Really serious questions'
In Public, Harvard Is Fighting Trump. Quietly, It’s Dismantling a Program the White House Doesn’t Like.
By Francie Diep June 9, 2025
The program’s fate offers one example of how Harvard’s promises to deal with campus antisemitism look on the ground.
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Advice
How to Promote Your Scholarly Book
By Rebecca Colesworthy June 5, 2025
An acquisitions editor offers eight tips for marketing-shy academics.
Portrait of Lucrezia Borgia (1480-1519), c. 1519. Found in the Collection of National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.
The Review | Essay
How Should We Think About the Renaissance?
By Julianne Werlin May 29, 2025
Ada Palmer re-examines the origins of modernity.
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The Review | Essay
The Dying Liberal University
By Robert S. Huddleston May 28, 2025
In his new book, David Rieff mourns a lost ideal.
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'Life Support'
As the Nation’s Research-Funding Model Ruptures, Private Money Becomes a Band-Aid
By Maddie Khaw May 23, 2025
Some foundations are offering much-needed stopgaps for researchers. But that’s not a permanent fix, scientists and advocates say.
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A 'Painful' Choice
An NIH Grant Is Restored, With a Catch: Cut a Study on Trans Youth
By Stephanie M. Lee May 21, 2025
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.
American artist Andy Warhol, posing in front of The Last Supper, a personal interpretation the American artist gave of Leonardo da Vinci's Il Cenacolo, realized 1986, belonging to a series dedicated to Leonardo's masterpiece set up in palazzo delle Stelline; the work holds the spirit of Warhol's artistic Weltanschauung, demystifying the artwork in order to deprive it of its uniqueness and no repeatibility. Milan (Italy), 1987.
The Review | Essay
Were the 1980s a Golden Age of Religious Art?
By Phil Christman May 21, 2025
Paul Elie’s new book revisits a contentious decade.
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