On May 9, Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06) announced that Rutgers University Cell & DNA Repository (RUCDR) Infinite Biologics, the world’s largest university-based biorepository, will be receiving up to $19 million in federal funding.  This renewal contract, awarded to RUCDR by the Department of Health and Human Services over a five year period, will be used to maintain and expand their NIDA Center for Genetic Studies (NCGS).

Faculty and students at the University of Alaska Anchorage will have early access to the ConocoPhillips Arctic Science and Engineering Endowment, thanks to a one-year-early payoff of the $15 million pledge made by ConocoPhillips Alaska, Inc. in 2008.

Thanks to cuts to research funding, the DIY movement continues to be a growing trend in laboratories across the U.S., according to a recent article in the Star Tribune.

The University of Delaware Library will present two workshops on research funding -- “Research Funding Online” and “Funding Sources for Graduate Students” -- during the spring semester.

The University of Toronto’s Leslie L. Dan Faculty of Pharmacy was the site of a major announcement of the Government of Canada, on Wednesday, February 19

UC San Francisco’s four professional schools topped the nation in federal research funding in 2013, with the University as a whole ranking first among public recipients and second overall in funds from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), according to annual NIH figures.

Recently, there seems to be more and more cases of scientists faking research

According to a recent article by Jeff John Roberts of Gigaom, a 1997 patent held by Boston University (BU) could actually be detrimental to public research.

UCSF Discovery Fellows Program Fuels PhD Education Amid Declining Public Funds.

The Stanford University School of Medicine has received $90 million from Ludwig Cancer Research on behalf of its founder, Daniel K. Ludwig, to support the school's innovative work in cancer stem cells, which are believed to drive the growth of many cancers.