Most funds fund medical research, including time-sensitive clinical trials.
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Days after a deal with the Trump administration, Columbia and Brown University said the administration had initiated a process of resuming billions of dollars in federal research funding that ended earlier this year in retaliation for its alleged failure to address anti-Semitism on campus.
Many of these grants come from the National Institutes of Health, which is supervised by the Department of Health and Human Services and provides funding for medical research, including time-sensitive clinical trials.
Brown spokesman Brian Clark emailed Internal Advanced ED Thursday night. “We are starting to see what’s formalized today at the awards ceremony and expect to see all of these grants in the days and weeks ahead.”
In April, the government blocked $510 million in federal grants and Brown contracts. However, under the terms of the agreement, the government and the university finalized Wednesday that “any payment should be restored within 30 days, which applies to “recovering certain grants that have been terminated, and also to active (non-terminated) grants that have not been repaid for Brown. ”
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The Brown deal comes about a week after Colombia agreed to pay $221 million to the government, in addition to changing its enrollment policy, disciplinary procedures and academic programs to restore the government’s cancellation in March to restore about $400 million in federal funding.
According to Colombia’s website, “Funds and reimbursement payments have begun to flow.”
“After a week, more than half of the termination grants have been restored, and we hope others can recover quickly,” the website said. “Frozen renewals and continuity are also being received with non-termination grants.”
The university wrote that it is “reviewing all grants terminated or suspended in the past few months to identify grants specifically for Colombia” and expecting “to treat Colombia grants fairly and be able to compete with the ability to be respected by all federal agencies.”
The university noted that the agreement only applies to HHS and NIH grants, and the government canceled Colombia as part of its targeted pressure campaign.
Teachers who request to remain anonymous Internal Advanced ED The university or NIH tells them that some grants are being restored or renewed. However, they are not clear whether the actual dollar will resume flows and how much more.
Since Trump took office in January, many federal agencies, including the NIH, the National Science Foundation and the Education Department, have terminated thousands of research grants across the country that are inconsistent with their ideological priorities. In particular, many grants focused on trans health, vaccine hesitation, climate change and racial disparity have been cancelled.
The university wrote on its website.
“Some of these grants have been terminated or suspended from all institutions and have nothing to do with Colombia,” the page said. “To some extent, the federal government has decided not to offer certain types of projects to any institution and these grants will not return to Colombia.”
Columbia and Brown are just two of the many Ivy League institutions the Trump administration targets by threatening federal funds.
The administration also holds $175 million in compensation at the University of Pennsylvania in retaliation for the university, allowing a transgender athlete to compete on the swimming team. Last month, the university reached a deal with the government that said it would restore funds.
The administration also locked down $2.2 billion at Harvard University and $10.2 billion at Princeton University and Cornell University. However, the agencies have not reached an agreement with the government, which could lead to the recovery of their federal funds.
So far, the government has frozen more than $6 billion in nine universities, including Brown, Columbia and Pennsylvania. Most fund freezes began in March, but last week the government resumed blocking funds that are being investigated by agencies. First, it held about $108 million in Duke University, and then officials suspended $339 million in grants at the University of California, Los Angeles.
