It was Robert Conn’s turn to shine, or perhaps more accurately, to bask, as he accepted the National Science Board’s (NSB) highest honor. Essentially a lifetime achievement award, the Vannevar Bush award recognized Conn’s...more
Report on Research Compliance 19, no. 3 (March, 2022) - Government auditors know they have something of a thankless job. Their role is to be perhaps hypercritical: Was that computer bought near the end of the award really...more
Report on Research Compliance 18, no. 9 (September, 2021) - A former Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) researcher who was the principal investigator on a 2014 NIH award of $939,495.27 and...more
The United States Innovation and Competition Act (“USICA”) passed the Senate on June 8, 2021. The bill, a rare bipartisan effort, would pour funding into research, design, and manufacturing initiatives in key technological...more
Report on Research Compliance 17, no. 3 (February 20, 2020) - Institutions with federal research dollars, particularly from the National Science Foundation (NSF), know they may be subject to an audit by the funding...more