U. of Minnesota Regains Authority Over Its NIH Grants

Officials at the National Institutes of Health conditionally returned authority to the University of Minnesota to manage its own federal grants, lifting the shackle of "exceptional status" that the agency placed on the institution in 1995.

The thumbs-up from the N.I.H. means that campus administrators can approve, by themselves, certain decisions about how grant money is spent -- such as making capital purchases and carrying unspent money over from one year to

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