4/2/25: Five things to know if your federal grant is terminated (The Transmitter, COGR Director Cindy Hope quoted) When Donald Trump began his second U.S. presidential term in January, science policy experts expected federal funding priorities to shift. Still, the canceled grants came as a shock…. Here are five things you should know if your federal grant is terminated. https://www.thetransmitter.org/funding/five-things-to-know-if-your-federal-grant-is-terminated/
4/2/25: How Researchers Could Get Their Canceled NIH Grants Back (Inside Higher Ed) The National Institutes of Health terminated numerous federal research grants that officials say no longer align with the agency’s priorities. But experts see multiple avenues to appeal the NIH’s decisions . https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/science-research-policy/2025/04/02/how-researchers-could-get-their-canceled-nih#
See also: Are terminations of NIH grants wasting billions of taxpayer dollars? (Science) https://www.science.org/content/article/are-terminations-nih-grants-wasting-billions-taxpayer-dollars
4/2/25: Public Health Agencies See Mass Layoffs (Inside Higher Ed) The Department of Health and Human Services laid off thousands of employees Tuesday, including several senior leaders, The Washington Post , the Associated Press and other outlets reported. The layoffs hit the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Food and Drug Administration, the National Institutes of Health, and other agencies at the department. All told, about 10,000 employees received notice of reductions in force, according to the Post, including “biomedical scientists, staff who respond to freedom of information requests and researchers who work to improve patient safety.” https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2025/04/02/trump-admin-makes-deep-cuts-hhs-public-health-agencies
See also: Trump administration purges U.S. health agency leaders (Science) https://www.science.org/content/article/trump-administration-purges-u-s-health-agency-leaders
See also: ‘One of the darkest days’: NIH purges agency leadership amid mass layoffs (Nature) https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01016-z
4/2/25: Trump Freezes Princeton’s Federal Funding (Inside Higher Ed) The Trump administration froze about $210 million in federal funding to Princeton University on Tuesday, about half of the university’s total federal grants for this fiscal year, according to reports from various media outlets . The university confirmed Tuesday that officials had been notified that dozens of grants were suspended by several federal agencies, including NASA and the Departments of Defense and Energy. In a campuswide email sent Tuesday, Princeton president Christopher Eisgruber said the agencies had provided no reasoning for the funding freeze and did not cite a specific dollar amount. https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2025/04/02/trump-admin-freezes-half-princetons-federal-funding
4/2/25: U of Washington Research Coordinators, Consultants Unionize (Inside Higher Ed) More than 700 University of Washington research coordinators and consultants have unionized, joining already organized research scientists and engineers there to create a bargaining unit more than 2,000 members strong, the union announced. https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2025/04/02/u-washington-research-coordinators-consultants-unionize
4/1/25: Trump’s Illegal War on the University of Pennsylvania (The Chronicle, Opinion) The Trump administration began stage two of its campaign against academe on March 19, when it announced on X that it had frozen $175 million in federal funding to the University of Pennsylvania because the university had allowed a transgender athlete, Lia Thomas, to join the women’s swim team in 2022. The announcement stated, “President Trump has promised to protect female athletes. He has threatened to rip federal funding away from any university that defies his executive order banning biological males from infiltrating women’s sports. And he is doing it.” https://www.chronicle.com/article/trumps-illegal-war-on-the-university-of-pennsylvania
4/1/25: 23 states, DC sue Trump administration over billions in lost public health funding (CNN) Democratic attorneys general and governors in 23 states and Washington, DC, have filed a lawsuit against the US Department of Health and Human Services and HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., alleging that the department’s sudden rollback of $12 billion in public health funding was unlawful and harmful. https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/01/health/public-health-funding-states-sue-hhs-rfk/index.html
4/1/25: Trump Administration Cancels NIH Scientific Integrity Policy (Scientific American) The policy was rescinded Friday evening to “ensure alignment with the administration’s priorities,” according to a notice posted by NIH . The notice says NIH, which is the largest source of funding for medical research in the world, will now follow the Department of Health and Human Services’ broader scientific integrity policy . https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/trump-administration-cancels-nih-scientific-integrity-policy/
4/1/25: Survey: Trump Policies Push 75% of Scientists to Consider Leaving U.S. (Inside Higher Ed) Nature received 1,650 responses to the survey it asked its readers to complete last month. Of those, early-career researchers were more likely than those with established careers to report considering looking for work elsewhere, including 79 percent of postgraduate researchers and 75 percent of Ph.D. students. https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2025/04/01/poll-75-scientists-consider-leaving-us
See also: Top scientists warn that Trump policies are causing a ‘climate of fear’ in research (NPR) https://www.npr.org/2025/04/01/nx-s1-5347411/scientists-trump-research-national-academies-open-letter
3/31/25: Trump Administration Will Review Billions in Funding for Harvard (New York Times) The move follows the cancellation of roughly $400 million in funding for Columbia and the suspension of $175 million for the University of Pennsylvania. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/us/trump-administration-harvard-funding.html
See also: Harvard at risk of losing $9 billion in federal funds as US launches review (Reuters) https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-reviewing-federal-contracts-grants-harvard-over-antisemitism-allegations-2025-03-31/
3/31/25: NSF has awarded almost 50% fewer grants since Trump took office (Science) The number of new grants handed out by the National Science Foundation (NSF) since President Donald Trump took office has fallen by nearly 50% compared with the same 2-month period 1 year ago. The drop-off—which has reduced the funds awarded to researchers by more than $400 million—is even steeper for engineering, education, and computing sciences, as well as NSF’s new technology directorate. https://www.science.org/content/article/nsf-has-awarded-almost-50-fewer-grants-trump-took-office
3/31/25: International scientists rethink U.S. conference attendance (Science) Marco Prado has rarely missed a meeting of the International Society for Neurochemistry in 30 years. … “It’s like our neighbor is trying to attack us. … I cannot [bring] myself morally to spend Canadian taxpayers’ money in attending U.S. conferences,” he says. https://www.science.org/content/article/international-scientists-rethink-us-conference-attendance
3/28/25: How U.S. colleges are navigating cuts to grants for research after Trump restricts federal funding (PBS News) For most of the schools, around 10% to 13% of their revenue came from federal contracts or research funding, according to the analysis. For some prestigious research universities, however, federal money represented up to half of their revenue. Article Link
—-
See also:
