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Trump’s Funding Freezes Halt Medical Research, Deaf Education Training
The federal government says it has cut or frozen billions of dollars’ worth of grants and contracts to high-profile universities, ending potentially lifesaving studies and critically needed training, according to the researchers.
Judge Blocks Energy Department Plan to Cap Indirect Cost Rates
A federal judge temporarily blocked the U.S. Department of Energy’s plan to cap universities’ indirect research cost reimbursement rates, pending...
U of Washington Research Coordinators, Consultants Unionize
More than 700 University of Washington research coordinators and consultants have unionized, joining already organized research scientists and engineers there...
Outspoken Fascism Scholars Leave Yale for Canada
Jason Stanley, decrying Columbia University’s capitulation to the federal government, is leaving for the University of Toronto. So is Marci Shore, who said she fears “civil war.” Timothy Snyder says his motivations were largely personal.
Resignations, Disagreements With Dean Roil Chapel Hill Civics School
UNC professors who supported the initiative when others derided it are resigning and denouncing its leader. It’s an ironic turn for a civil discourse school.
Citing Fiscal Concerns, Pitt, Carnegie Mellon Drop Science Writers Conference
The University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University won’t host a conference of science journalists and other science writers that...
Protesters Disrupt Larry Summers’s Wealth Tax Speech at Stanford
Protesters last week disrupted a Stanford University Democracy and Disagreement course in protest of guest speaker and former Harvard University...
Why the NIH Cuts Are So Wrong
Christopher Newfield writes that higher ed has a better counternarrative to share.