While marquee names like Harvard and Columbia dominate headlines in the ongoing, existential fight between the Trump administration and higher education, public universities such as the University of Massachusetts Amherst are bracing for some of the steepest losses.
The administration has already rescinded thousands of grants from universities nationwide, and President Donald Trump’s proposed federal budget would further slash funding to schools. If Congress signs off on that plan, campuses like UMass—which are already hurting from terminated grants—could lose more than half their federal research support.
In May, UMass mechanical engineering professor Matthew Lackner got the email no researcher wants: The government canceled his six-year, $3 million grant from the National Science Foundation. His lab was conducting research and training graduate students on renewable energy.
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