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Related: About this forumUS universities curtail PhD admissions amid Trump science funding cuts
Graduate School is where one learns to do science rather than merely read about it.
This is the result of two sick morons, His Maggotcy King Eloon, purchaser of technology bigger than his drugged brain can handle, and the ventriloquist's dummy he bought from Vladmir Putin, the orange slime.
This is an active assault on the American future by a toxic immigrant billionaire and a functional idiot who has never read a book in his useless parasitic life.
From Nature News:
US universities curtail PhD admissions amid (insert the name of the orange slime here) science funding cuts
Subtitle:
At the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, some prospective students even received informal offers to join the graduate programme, only to later have them rescinded, according to the institutions newspaper, The Daily Pennsylvanian.
The whole thing is horrendous, says a professor at the university, who requested anonymity because they are involved in admissions. Theyre cutting the heart of the intellectual mission of the university. The university did not respond to requests for comment.
At the centre of most of the turmoil is the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), which, with an annual budget of US$47 billion, is the worlds largest public funder of biomedical research. Funding of NIH research grants has mostly been frozen for the past month, owing to actions taken by the Trump administration to reduce federal spending. The freeze has persisted despite a federal judges order to release the money. Separately, under Trump, the NIH has attempted to slash the rate paid to US research institutions for the overhead costs that, for instance, keep electricity on and pay the rent in researchers workspaces. The agency proposed cutting the rate from between 40% and 70% to a flat 15% a potential loss of billions of dollars for universities. A coalition of universities, as well as the attorneys-general of 22 states sued to halt the policy, which they say is illegal, and a federal judge temporarily blocked it from taking effect...
(I'm not logged into my account; I believe the article is therefore open to the public.)
Recently I've heard from a number of academics, as well as the three people in my immediate family who work in academia, that as a result of the compromises made in teaching in high schools, the quality of the preparation for the undergraduates entering college has declined. Now the second effect of the awful orange slime in the White House will kick in. American Science - once the envy of the world - may never recover.
Is he dead yet?

erronis
(18,156 posts)Otherwise, I'd just repeat your whole post.
Kudos!
MichMan
(14,433 posts)Maybe it's time to actually use them for something
NNadir
(35,299 posts)...on his work in quantum computing, he made that point, that Princeton is somewhat immune because of its endowment.
This said, not all Universities have these luxuries - Penn probably does - but nevertheless the attack on Science by the orange slime is very real and will have huge consequences.
MichMan
(14,433 posts)NNadir
(35,299 posts)MichMan
(14,433 posts)Only interested in continuing them if they can use our money instead of theirs. All while paying the graduate students actually doing the work a mere pittance.
Penn is already charging $66,000 a year for tuition. $66,000 ! I'm not feeling at all sorry for them
NNadir
(35,299 posts)...that is appropriate really should be directed at the slime mold infecting the White House and the attack on Science.
MichMan
(14,433 posts)Last edited Sun Mar 2, 2025, 06:57 AM - Edit history (1)
I didn't just pull them out of thin air.
If they aren't representative, they shouldn't have been chosen as an example