US Edition‘We Were Ready for This’: Meet the Scientists Suing the Trump Administration to Reinstate Terminated Grants
- The Corps of Engineers paused the mega-study on the lower Mississippi River on Friday due to funding shortages.
- Initiated in 2023 with a planned duration of five years and a budget of $25 million, the study currently faces funding uncertainty due to federal budget reductions.
- The study has received $9.5 million and addresses issues like saltwater intrusion, flood risk, and critical shipping lanes in Louisiana.
- Col. Cullen Jones stated that the study will be put on hold until further funding is secured.
- The pause leaves uncertainty for the study's future and reflects broader federal budget constraints affecting key infrastructure research.
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NolaHuge study on Mississippi River's future paused due to lack of funding from Trump administration
The so-called mega-study launched in 2023 was intended to last five years and address a wide range of issues key to shipping, floods and drinking water, among many others.
Two more Mayo Clinic Rochester awards marked as 'terminated' in NIH database
ROCHESTER — Two more NIH research grants awarded to Mayo Clinic researchers have been terminated, according to the National Institutes of Health database. The two grants were diversity supplement awards both associated with the larger Lymphoma Epidemiology of Outcomes Cohort Study, a multi-institution study that focuses on non-Hodgkin lymphoma, a group of cancers that affect the lymphatic system. The terminated awards appeared in the Grant Watch…
Trump moves to rewrite the rules of science
The White House’s new “gold standard science” order would give political appointees power to rewrite, reject, or discipline research they don’t like.Somini Sengupta reports for The New York Times.In short:A new executive order allows Trump-appointed officials to “correct” and censor federal scientific findings, claiming to restore scientific rigor while sidelining expert review.Over 6,000 scientists, academics, and physicians signed a protest le…
Trump Policy Moves to Make Grant Makers Political Appointees
Officials say the policy, which would make it easier to fire thousands of government employees, is designed to increase accountability. But experts say it would increase corruption and threaten the nation’s health and economy. Hundreds of scientists are pushing back against a federal policy proposal that would make it easier to fire grant makers, among many other government employees, who don’t adhere to the Trump administration’s political whim…
‘We were ready for this’: meet the scientists suing the Trump administration to reinstate terminated grants
Judge sets court date to hear the US government detail how termination directives were made. Judge sets court date to hear the US government detail how termination directives were made.
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