February 11, 2005

Government Eases Conditions for Grants

By JEFFREY BRAINARD

The federal government has proposed extending streamlined legal conditions on federal research grants to all colleges receiving the grants and all federal agencies issuing them. The move followed other guidelines, issued last month by the federal government, to ease the administrative workload for grants shared by multiple institutions and scientists.

College officials welcomed the changes. For years academic scientists and administrators have complained that the federal agencies that

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