Immediately after its inauguration, the Trump administration has taken no secret that it is not particularly interested in financing research. Before the end of January, the science agencies were to Holding breaks On the research funding, and have not been grant funding Restored to the previous levels. Since. Many individual grants have been targeted on ideological grounds, and are agencies like the National Science Foundation Expected to see important deductions. Since then, individual universities have been targeted, with the ongoing fighting With Columbia University Million in the Research Fund over 400 million.
However, this week, it appears that the university’s research has entered an over drive, in which several fund announcements have been frozen by targeting several universities. If they stay for a long time for any time, they will potentially research in targeted universities.
On Wednesday, science learned that the National Institute of Health Is frozen Colombia agreed to all its research funding, despite the university’s demand for the administration and the resignation of its acting president. In 2024, Colombia received a grant of about $ 700 million from NIH, with a large extent that the money went to the University’s Medical and Public Health Schools.
But the attack is ahead of the same university. Tuesday, Trump administration Hold announced North Western University (about $ 800 million) and Cornell University ($ 1 billion) on all research funds. These included the amount provided by several government agencies, including a valuable amount of the Defense Department in the Cornell case. Clearly, all these measures were taken because of the university’s organizers’ perspective to protest the conflict in Gaza, which the administration has characterized by allowing hatred.