Trump administration agrees to drop anti-DEI criteria for stalled health research grants

  • The James H. Shannon Building (Building One), on the National Institutes of Health campus in Bethesda, Maryland. (Photo by Lydia Polimeni,/National Institutes of Health)
    The James H. Shannon Building (Building One), on the National Institutes of Health campus in Bethesda, Maryland. (Photo by Lydia Polimeni,/National Institutes of Health)

    The Trump administration will review frozen grants to universities without using its controversial standards that discouraged gender, race and sexual orientation initiatives and vaccine research.

    In a settlement agreement filed in Massachusetts federal court on Dec. 29, the National Institutes of Health and a group of Democratic attorneys general who’d challenged the new criteria for grant funding …