CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY

FY26 House and Senate Appropriations. East Palestine Health Impact Monitoring Act of 2025 (HR 1126), NIH Funding, COVID Research, opioid prevention & research, Prion Center, brain health, neurodegeneration research, neuropsychiatry, scope of nursing, nursing research, nursing workforce development programs, telehealth, social determinants of health, maternal and infant health and mortality, Clinical and Translational Sciences Awards (CTSA), ARPA-H, Cancer Research, Foreign Influence Issues.

FY26 House and Senate Appropriations. East Palestine Health Impact Monitoring Act of 2025 (HR 1126). NIH Funding, opioid prevention & research, Prion Center, neuropsychiatry, the scope of nursing, nursing research and workforce development, social determinants of health, maternal and infant health and mortality, Clinical and Translational Sciences Awards (CTSA), NCI.

FY26 House/Senate Energy Appropriations, ARPA-E, Department of Energy Office of Science, Department of Electricity Delivery, Department of Energy Advanced Manufacturing, Energy Frontier Program, Department of Energy Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy Office of Energy Storage, Department of Energy Solar, Department of Energy Basic Energy Sciences, Foreign influence issues, NNSA; Electrochemistry

FY26 LHHS-Ed Appropriations including campus-based aid (Pell Grants, Perkins, Federal Work-Study, SEOG, GAANN, Public Service Loan Forgiveness). Title IX, Accreditation, foreign influence issues.

Department of Justice Sexual Assault Kit programs, including DOJ DNA Initiative, DNA Analysis and Capacity Enhancement Program, and Community Teams to Reduce SAK Backlog, Opioid Abuse Prevention, Opioid Data Sharing, Analytics and Prevention, and foreign influence issues.

FY26 appropriations advocacy. Advocacy topics include: East Palestine research study, National Institutes of Health Research, Prion research, Clinical and Translational Sciences Award (CTSA); ARPA-E, Dept. of Energy Office of Science, Office of Electricity Delivery, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy; Advanced Manufacturing Office, Energy Frontier Program, Office of Energy Storage, Solar, Basic Energy Sciences, National Nuclear Security Administration; National Endowment for the Humanities, National Science Foundation and the NSF Engineering Research Center, nursing education and workforce development programs, Department of Defense Air Force Research, Navy Research, Army Research, Defense Health Program research, Peer-reviewed Medical Research Program, Science & Technology 6.1 Basic Research, explosive ordnance disposal research; Veteran's Affairs Medical research, prosthetics research, Advanced Platform Technology (APT) Center.; campus-based aid; Department of Justice Sexual Assault Kit Initiatives, Opioid Abuse Prevention, Opioid Data Sharing, Analytics and Prevention.

FY26 Defense House/Senate Appropriations. Army research funding, Air Force research funding, Navy research funding, Defense Health Program research funding, Peer-Reviewed Medical Research Program funding, Science & Technology 6.1 Basic Research funding.

Higher Education Issues Endowment Excise Tax

FY26 Appropriations for Veteran's Affairs Medical research, prosthetics research, Advanced Platform Technology (APT) Center.

Foreign influence issues. CHIPS Act. Metals production and semiconductor research. Sustainable manufacturing. Artificial Intelligence research. Machine Learning. Bayh-Dole and March-in Rights.

Immigration, Optional Practical Training (OPT), Visas (HIB, H2, F-1, J-1), international students, SEVP

Foreign Influence Issues. Student Exchanges Programs, duration of status policy for F&J Visas.