{"id":31431,"date":"2025-07-10T10:00:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T10:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=31431"},"modified":"2025-07-10T10:28:28","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T10:28:28","slug":"trumps-d-e-i-cuts-are-hurting-rural-white-americans-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=31431","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s D.E.I. Cuts Are Hurting Rural, White Americans, Too"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The N.I.H. has terminated hundreds of diversity grants awarded to young scientists, many of whom come from the very places that supported Trump.<\/p>\n

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Lucas Dillard describes himself as sort of a JD Vance, scientist version.<\/p>\n

Raised by a single mother in rural Appalachia, he was about to enlist in the Navy when he received a Pell grant that allowed him to go to North Carolina State University.<\/p>\n

A work-study requirement delivered a stroke of fortune: a job in a lab with a structural biologist who let him conduct his own research. Those projects got him into a post-baccalaureate program at the National Institutes of Health, where he published papers that helped him get into a Ph.D. program in molecular biophysics at Johns Hopkins.<\/p>\n

And last year, his work at Hopkins won a prestigious N.I.H. fellowship that pays the country\u2019s most promising doctoral students to continue their scientific research.<\/p>\n

Mr. Dillard\u2019s grant was one of thousands the N.I.H. canceled as it rushed to comply with President Trump\u2019s executive order banning federally funded diversity, equity and inclusion programs. The order<\/a> accused the programs of using race- and sex-based preferences that it said were \u201cdangerous, demeaning and immoral\u201d and \u201cdeny, discredit, and undermine the traditional American values of hard work, excellence, and individual achievement.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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But Mr. Trump\u2019s push to end D.E.I. has been a blunt instrument, eliminating highly competitive grant programs that defined diversity well beyond race and gender. Those who have lost grants include not only Black and Latino scientists, but also many like Mr. Dillard, who are white and from rural areas, which are solidly Trump country. The administration has decried universities as hotbeds of liberal elitism, inhospitable to viewpoint diversity. The canceled diversity grant programs were intended to make science less elite, by developing a pipeline from poorer areas of the country that tend to be more conservative.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s very different in their minds, who is getting the D.E.I. stuff,\u201d Mr. Dillard said. \u201cPeople on the right, they don\u2019t realize they\u2019re limiting the opportunity of their own kids by supporting this.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The N.I.H. has terminated hundreds of diversity grants awarded to young scientists, many of whom come from the very places that supported Trump.Lucas Dillard describes himself as sort of a JD Vance, scientist version.Raised by a single mother in rural Appalachia, he was about to enlist in the Navy when he received a Pell grant that allowed him to go to North Carolina State University.A work-study requirement delivered a stroke of fortune: a job in a lab with a structural biologist who let him conduct his own research. Those projects got him into a post-baccalaureate program at the National Institutes of Health, where he published papers that helped him get into a Ph.D. program in molecular biophysics at Johns Hopkins.And last year, his work at Hopkins won a prestigious N.I.H. fellowship that pays the country\u2019s most promising doctoral students to continue their scientific research.Mr. Dillard\u2019s grant was one of thousands the N.I.H. canceled as it rushed to comply with President Trump\u2019s executive order banning federally funded diversity, equity and inclusion programs. The order accused the programs of using race- and sex-based preferences that it said were \u201cdangerous, demeaning and immoral\u201d and \u201cdeny, discredit, and undermine the traditional American values of hard work, excellence, and individual achievement.\u201dBut Mr. Trump\u2019s push to end D.E.I. has been a blunt instrument, eliminating highly competitive grant programs that defined diversity well beyond race and gender. Those who have lost grants include not only Black and Latino scientists, but also many like Mr. Dillard, who are white and from rural areas, which are solidly Trump country. The administration has decried universities as hotbeds of liberal elitism, inhospitable to viewpoint diversity. The canceled diversity grant programs were intended to make science less elite, by developing a pipeline from poorer areas of the country that tend to be more conservative.\u201cI think it\u2019s very different in their minds, who is getting the D.E.I. stuff,\u201d Mr. Dillard said. \u201cPeople on the right, they don\u2019t realize they\u2019re limiting the opportunity of their own kids by supporting this.\u201dWe 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":31433,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31431"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31434,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31431\/revisions\/31434"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}