Many schools are now braking for standing support. At the University of Duke, the administrators have promoted jobs, promoted research projects, and admission will reduce the number of biomedical PhD students by 23 % or more. Reporting by Associated Press. The school took $ 80 million last year in the National Health Institute’s grants and contracts.
At Wanderblat University, the faculty was sent an email on February 6 in which he was instructed to reduce the graduate admission to the entire board by half, According to the State. Outlet also reported that the faculty at the University of Washington’s School of Public Health has reduced admission.
Faculty at the University of Pennsylvania also informed the applicants to recover admission offers and instructed them to significantly reduce admission rates, According to the Daily Pennsylvin. Wisconsin Medicine University is also shrinking its graduate programs, According to wkow.com.
Beth Sullivan, who oversees graduate programs in Duke, told AP that shrinking classes mean shrinking pipeline in the US Medical Research community, which Dominates the world’s health research fields And is an important force in the country’s economy. Sullivan said, “The next generation of our researchers is now standing on the edge of the mountain, they do not know whether a bridge is going to take them to the other side, or if so,” Sullivan said.
“It’s a severe blow to the next generation of science and scientists,” New Haven, a genetic expert at the Yale School of Medicine, Connecticut, Sewan Wang Told nature. “With fewer scientists, science and innovation will be low, which pushes social development and public health improvement.”
This post was updated to correct Rachel Siriani’s job title.