The toll from the chaos surrounding the Trump administration’s reduction or suspension of financial support for university research, particularly through the National Institutes of Health, continues to mount. An increasing number of research universities have recently announced they would be trimming their budgets, freezing new hiring, or pulling back on Ph.D. admissions because of concerns over federal funding constraints. They join other major institutions — such as Northwestern University, MIT, Washington State University, North Carolina State University, and Columbia University’s Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons — that have previously indicated they would pause some spending or hiring due to the federal cutbacks. Here are new additions to the list, which now numbers more than a dozen research universities imposing spending reductions or pauses on graduate student admissions.
