MIT is doing less research and enrolling fewer graduate students as a result of federal actions, the university president warned Thursday.
Federally funded research on campus is down more than 20 percent compared to this time last year, MIT’s president, Sally Kornbluth, told the campus community in a video message, and the number of new federal research awards is also down more than 20 percent.
“That is a striking loss for one of the most influential and productive research communities in the world,“ Kornbluth said.
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