The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced it is unilaterally cutting in half the overhead rate on its academic grants, something that a federal judge recently told the National Institutes of Health (NIH) it could not do. “The purpose of Department of Energy (DOE) funding to colleges and universities is to support scientific research – not foot the bill for administrative costs and facility upgrades,” U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright said in a policy directive declaring that the ne...