Shortly after the inauguration, the Trump administration has not built a secret that it is not particularly interested in raising research funds. By the end of January, major scientific institutions had enacted a moratorium on research funding, and since then grants have not been restored to previous levels. Many individual grants are targeted for ideological grounds, and agencies like the National Science Foundation are expected to see significant cuts. Since then, individual universities have been targeted starting with a continuous fight Columbia University and Over $400 million in research funding.
However, this week, university research targeting has entered overdrive, with multiple announcements appearing on a freeze on fundraising targeting several universities. If these last for quite some time, they will be crippling research at targeted universities.
On Wednesday, the National Institutes of Health reported on science. It’s frozen All research funding to Colombia, despite the university agreeing to measures previously requested by the resignation of the administration and its representative president. In 2024, Columbia received nearly $700 million in grants from the NIH, which mostly went to the university’s prestigious medical and public schools.
But the attacks go far beyond a single university. Trump administration on Tuesday Hold has been announced For all research funding to Northwestern University (nearly $800 million) and Cornell University ($1 billion). These included funds granted by multiple government agencies, including a substantial amount from the Department of Defense in Cornell’s case. On the surface, all of these actions were taken due to the university administrator’s approach to protests about the Gaza conflict, which the regime characterized as allowing anti-Semitism.
