Trump, Harvard and federal grants
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The president’s fight threatens to leave the school a different place even if it ultimately wins its lawsuits.
In a new court filing, Harvard revealed the breadth of the Trump administration's campaign against the university.
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.
As the Trump administration cut billions of dollars in federal funding to scientific research, thousands of scientists in the US lost their jobs or grants and governments and universities around the world spotted an opportunity.
The pause of billions of dollars in research funding to universities has had devastating effects on cancer research as lab work is put on hold and schools are halting the acceptance of new Ph.D.
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.
One day after the Trump administration announced more federal grant cuts, Harvard's president is taking a pay cut.
A federal judge on Friday blocked the Trump administration’s attempt to revoke Harvard University’s ability to host foreign students. The