3 minutes ago, RJRS1301 said:

You asked "what does it tell you?", so I have told you what it tells me.

 

Not seeing the forest for a tree. Or rather a shrub.

 

 

New White House rules restrict use of grant funding to deal with COVID-19 impacts

 

New rules on how U.S. universities manage federal research grants leave them with less flexibility to cope with the pandemic. The changes, which rescind many temporary measures adopted this spring as COVID-19 shuttered campuses and froze the economy, come despite continued uncertainty over the fall semester and the status of research on U.S. campuses.

“I am speechless because I just don’t know” what lies ahead, confessed David Mayo, head of sponsored research at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), during a meeting yesterday of a top-level advisory panel to the National Science Foundation (NSF) at which the changes were discussed.

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/06/new-white-house-rules-restrict-use-grant-funding-deal-covid-19-impacts?utm_campaign=news_daily_2020-06-30&et_rid=314208203&et_cid=3384644