Trump, Harvard University and federal grants
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Presented by The Coalition to Strengthen America’s Healthcare — Cancer research has become an unintended casualty of the Trump administration’s broad cuts to research grants and its fight
Harvard University is putting up $250 million of its own money to continue campus research amid a federal funding freeze imposed by the Trump administration, but the school’s president warns of sacrifices ahead.
As the Trump administration halts about $2.7 billion in Harvard University funding, the school’s president is absorbing some of the financial impacts by taking a 25 % pay cut, according to a university spokesperson.
Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Hopi E. Hoekstra announced a new program to fund senior and tenure-track FAS professors whose grants have been terminated by the Trump administration in a Friday message.
One day after the Trump administration announced more federal grant cuts, Harvard's president is taking a pay cut.
Harvard University on Tuesday amended its lawsuit against the Trump administration after having another $450 million in research funding cut over alleged campus antisemitism and racism.