The Institute is assessing and evaluating the initial impacts of the executive actions and new agency guidance we are aware of to date. This page requires Touchstone login.
Effective March 15, 2025, C. Cem Tasan, POSCO Associate Professor of Metallurgy in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, will take up the leadership post at the Materials Research Laboratory as director.
MIT is closely monitoring the annual spending process in Washington, D.C., and making preparations to mitigate the impacts of a potential government shutdown on the Institute’s research enterprise.
If Congress fails to pass new legislation to fund the government beyond March 14, 2025, the government will shut down until Congress can approve a spending bill.
This video for the MIT research community provides an overview of MIT’s research funding environment through FY24 and current trends. Touchstone login is required. For additional context, read VPR Ian Waitz’ article in the latest Faculty Newsletter.
As a result of legal action, MIT’s current facilities and administrative (F&A) rates, for NIH and all other federal agencies, remain unchanged for now, until further action from the court.
President Kornbluth’s letter to the MIT community describes the potential impact of a recent announcement by the National Institutes of Health and shares the actions MIT is taking in response.
MIT is intensely focused on assessing all available information. A new internal web page offers a central source for the facts, and we will continue to update it.
Several of the functional teams within the Office of the Vice President for Research (OVPR) that support MIT research administration have made modest organizational changes recently to benefit PIs and our administrative colleagues in the DLCIs.
