THREE DAYS AFTER the National Institutes of Health abruptly announced it would place a strict, low cap on the money it sends to universities and research institutions for the administrative costs of scientific research, the University of Iowa made an abrupt announcement of its own. The school's Office of the Vice President for Research declared that going forward, it would pause "the hiring of new Graduate Research Assistants unless they are already budgeted as a direct cost on a funded project." The announcement sent shockwaves through parts of academia, providing an alarming demonstration of the impact the NIH cap would have on aspiring scientists. "We were pretty stunned," the chair of the biochemistry and molecular biology department at a top university told The Bulwark.
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