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Exclusive: Weeks after President Donald Trump’s administration ordered NIH to pull $250 million in biomedical research grants to Columbia University, the agency is freezing all remaining grant money owed to the university until further notice. scim.ag/4if5Rg1

scim.agNIH freezes all research grants to Columbia UniversityAmid negotiations with Trump, the university could risk losing nearly $700 million

Julian Le Vay

@julianle.bsky.social

9 Apr 2025

So there is a choice. Suck Trump's cock and be his bitch. Or accept that you'll be a smaller university but still a great one, one with integrity, one that people's respect.

David L

@dlynch.bsky.social

9 Apr 2025

They've got c. $15bn in their endowment fund, so their behaviour is even worse, they could easily have ridden this out with no need to be smaller, in any sense.

Dingodingo

@dingodingo14.bsky.social

I talked to someone who is familiar with university endowments. He said that about 80 percent of his university's endowment is restricted. The situation is similar at other universities. They cannot just dip into the endowment money to replace government funding that has been stripped away.

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