{"id":29738,"date":"2025-06-16T15:30:38","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T15:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=29738"},"modified":"2025-06-16T16:26:54","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T16:26:54","slug":"graduate-students-push-back-against-science-funding-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=29738","title":{"rendered":"Graduate Students Push Back Against Science Funding Cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hundreds of graduate students are writing to their hometown newspapers to defend their research, as the Trump administration drastically reduces science funding.<\/p>\n

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As a scientist, Erin Morrow\u2019s focus is cerebral \u2014 literally. She studies the brain, investigating the interplay of memory and stress.<\/p>\n

But when Ms. Morrow, a graduate student at the University of California, Los Angeles, sat down to compose a letter in defense of science, she decided to write from the heart.<\/p>\n

Hers is attached to a pacemaker, implanted a few years ago to manage an atrioventricular block that made her pulse stutter.<\/p>\n

\u201cScience saved my life,\u201d Ms. Morrow wrote in a letter to the editor<\/a> that was published this month in The Marietta Daily Journal, a Georgia newspaper. \u201cMy happy ending wouldn\u2019t have been possible without decades of U.S. research,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Ms. Morrow, 24, from Powder Springs, Ga., is one of hundreds of people who wrote to their hometown newspapers as part of a national campaign spearheaded this spring by graduate students and scientists who are just starting their careers.<\/p>\n

They wanted to draw attention to the Trump administration\u2019s research funding cuts<\/a> that are scuttling grants, shrinking science labs and stopping postdoctoral studies. Administration officials have pointed to the importance of cost-saving and attributed many of the budget cuts to changing scientific priorities. The White House has moved to cancel research in specific areas, like transgender health and climate science, and described some research efforts as wasteful spending.<\/p>\n

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Hundreds of graduate students are writing to their hometown newspapers to defend their research, as the Trump administration drastically reduces science funding.As a scientist, Erin Morrow\u2019s focus is cerebral \u2014 literally. She studies the brain, investigating the interplay of memory and stress.But when Ms. Morrow, a graduate student at the University of California, Los Angeles, sat down to compose a letter in defense of science, she decided to write from the heart.Hers is attached to a pacemaker, implanted a few years ago to manage an atrioventricular block that made her pulse stutter.\u201cScience saved my life,\u201d Ms. Morrow wrote in a letter to the editor that was published this month in The Marietta Daily Journal, a Georgia newspaper. \u201cMy happy ending wouldn\u2019t have been possible without decades of U.S. research,\u201d she added.Ms. Morrow, 24, from Powder Springs, Ga., is one of hundreds of people who wrote to their hometown newspapers as part of a national campaign spearheaded this spring by graduate students and scientists who are just starting their careers.They wanted to draw attention to the Trump administration\u2019s research funding cuts that are scuttling grants, shrinking science labs and stopping postdoctoral studies. Administration officials have pointed to the importance of cost-saving and attributed many of the budget cuts to changing scientific priorities. The White House has moved to cancel research in specific areas, like transgender health and climate science, and described some research efforts as wasteful spending.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29740,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29738"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29741,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29738\/revisions\/29741"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}