That could weaken the doctoral pipeline — and spell trouble for the future of science and innovation in the U.S.
With cuts to federal support under the Trump administration, some research universities are opting to help develop and monetize startups.
Research at a Duke University laboratory led to a new breast cancer drug in 2023. Government funding for that lab is now in limbo.
Quantum computers could speed up some computing tasks by orders of magnitude — but they’re still in early stages.
Funding for agriculture research at 17 labs at U.S. universities is now frozen. The labs are laying off workers, and some research is on hold.
Key meetings with scientists have been cancelled recently and they are uncertain about what the implications are for their research funding.
If the U.S. fails to attract and retain foreign AI talent, the biggest winner could be Canada.
HBCUs like Howard often lost out on research grants due to systematic underfunding. Now there’s a push to fund more research at HBCUs.
The free market is pretty simple: There’s supply, there’s demand, they meet somewhere in the middle. If there’s a need, there’s a product. But sometimes, that system breaks down, as it has in the market for antibiotics.
Research indicates executives in a given company are now more likely to all be of the same party, and that has consequences.
