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LEGAL ACTIONSOrganizations Contest NIH Cuts
The American Association of Universities, Associaton of Public Land-Grant Universities, and American Council on Education filed legal action contesting NIH cuts to facilities and administrative reimbursement funding. Read more
States Sue Over Science Cuts
Sixteen states, including six with ARCS-supported institutions, sue President Trump over $1.4 billion in cuts to science programs. Read more
OLDER HEADLINESNIH Staff and Biomedical Community Sound Alarm about Agency Politicization, Funding Slowdown
ScienceInsider, June 9. 2025Colleges Can't Trust the Federal Government. What Now?
Chronicle of Higher Education opinion piece, June 9, 2025Trump Moves to Slash NSF: Why?
University World News, June 7, 2025; reprinted from NatureU.S. Scientists Warn That Trump’s Cuts Will Set Off a Brain Drain
New York Times, June 3, 2025How the Trump Administration’s Plans to Slash NASA’s Budget Will Impact Science
PBS News Hour, June 2, 2025MAGA's Assault on Science is an Act of Grevious Self-Harm; America Will Pay the Price
The Economist, May 25, 2025Trump's Attack on Science is Growing Fiercer and More Indiscriminate
How Cuts to Science Funding Will Hurt Ordinary Americans
America is In Danger of Experiencing an Academic Brain Drain
The Economist, May 21, 2025Europe Pledges €600 Million to Lure Foreign Researchers, Vows to Protect Scientific Freedom
AAAS Science, May 5, 2025
Science in the First 100 Days and links to related articles (including the story of a postdoc at ARCS Partner Northern Arizona University)
AAAS Science, May 2, 2025Trump vs Science
New York Times, April 25, 2025Make China Great Again? How Trump's Attacks on Universities Will Backfire
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, April 18, 2025These 77 Colleges Have the Most to Lose from Trump's Cuts
Chronicle of Higher Education, April 10, 2025 (list includes 22 ARCS partner universities)Energy Department Cuts University Overhead Rates to 15% on Research Grants
AAAS Science, April 11, 2025Don't Quit the Long Game
AAAS Science, April 3, 2025Scientists sound alarm on dismantling of research funding
PBS News, March 31, 2025 (Read the letter in the New York Times)How U.S. colleges are navigating cuts to grants for research
PBS News, March 28, 2025The End of the Univerity as We Know It
Guest editorial, New York Times, March 16, 20205The Authoritarian Endgame on Higher Education
New York Times opinion, March 15, 2025Federal research instability risks postdoc careers, American leadership
STAT op ed, March 13, 2025These 77 Colleges Have the Most to Lose from Trump's Cuts
Chronicle of Higher Education, April 10, 2025 (list includes 22 ARCS partner universities)US Universities Reduce PhD Admissions in Response to Federal Funding Cuts
The Scientist, Feb. 27, 2025