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The White House Executive Orders and their implementation by various federal agencies have impacted UC San Diego’s research portfolio in several specific ways. The Office of Research and Innovation, UC San Diego’s federal relations team, and senior leaders are working to stay abreast of developments to shape the university’s response and provide guidance to campus and to individual researchers whose federally funded research has been specifically impacted by stop-work orders.
- The Executive Orders are issued to federal agencies and not to campuses. Federal agencies will act on the executive orders and issue guidance to grantees. Before we can assess the impact, UC San Diego needs specific information regarding the types of work being affected, and budgetary implications of any agency guidance.
- Different agencies have responded differently, which means that UC San Diego’s implementation needs to be situational and flexible.
- Standard processes to promote federally funded research have been interrupted.
Provisional recommendations for researchers
- Absent specific communication from an agency about a particular federal award or subaward, researchers are advised to continue business as usual.
- If any researcher receives Agency communication about a specific federal grant related to the Executive Orders, please forward it to vcresearch@ucsd.edu so the Office of Research and Innovation can activate internal process to assess the impacts and advise the researcher and their academic unit.
- Continue to submit proposals. Check the Notice of Funding Opportunity on grants.gov often for amendments.