Lamont backfills $35M in lost federal research grants for UConn

$35M In State Funds Allocated To Offset Lost Federal Support For UConn Research

UConn President Radenka Marić said the funding showed the state was committed to enabling discovery and keeping the state competitive in the 21st Century innovation economy.

CT spends $35 million to backstop federal cuts to research at UConn

(Molly Ingram / WSHU)Connecticut is spending $35 million to backstop some of the recent federal funding cuts to academic research programs at UConn and UConn Health.“In a small way, as a bridge to getting a little more sanity in Washington D.C., we are going to make sure that we continue at least the most vital of the R & D going on here at UConn,” Governor Ned Lamont said at an announcement of the state funding in Storrs on Thursday.The Connect…

Lamont backfills $35M in lost federal research grants for UConn

Gov. Ned Lamont and other elected officials joined faculty and administrators at the University of Connecticut Thursday to announce $35 million in state aid to offset lost federal research funds. The money would come out of Connecticut’s Federal Cuts Response Fund, which legislators created for Lamont last year to prop up programs facing cuts by the Trump administration. The governor is sending $21 million to UConn and $14 million to UConn Healt…