Overview

• US District Judge Rita Lin directed the administration to restore over one-third of the $584 million in NSF grants frozen at UCLA over alleged campus antisemitism.
• UCLA is weighing a proposed $1 billion settlement that would impose penalties and policy conditions to recover the remaining research funds.
• Elite institutions such as Columbia, Brown and Penn have already settled, accepting multimillion-dollar fines and agreeing to adopt government-endorsed antisemitism definitions, end certain DEI initiatives and tighten Middle East studies oversight.
• Harvard continues to challenge funding suspensions and visa restrictions in federal court, arguing the administration lacks authority to link grants to campus policy compliance.
• Scientists warn that suspended grants are destabilizing vital research, even as a Senate committee rebuffed deep NIH and NSF budget cuts and backed a modest boost to research funding.