Trump’s administration froze of $ 584 million in federal grants for UCLA, which is more than double earlier estimates, threatening hundreds of research projects. Chancellor Julio Frenk announced a massive reduction on Wednesday and revealed that agencies such as National Science Foundation (NSF) and National Institutes of Health (NIH) suspended the funding for anti -Semitism on the campus.
UCLA is the first public university focused in this way, after similar steps against private schools such as Harvard and Columbia. Frenk warned that freezing would be “devastating to the Americans nationwide”, which has an impact on studies on diseases, pure energy and national security.
Freezing affects 800 grants, including life rescue organ transplantation to transplant in UCLA.
The cuts followed by the report of the US Ministry of Justice, which accused UCLA of ignoring anti-Semitism during pro-Palestinian protests in 2024, although the university recently paid Jewish students settled $ 6 million for the same camp.
Federal agencies provided contradictory justification: the NSF quoted “incorrectly aligned priorities”, while the Ministry of Energy bizarrely claimed that they “threaten women” by allowing transgender athletes and taking “illegal affirmative measures”.
UC President James Milaliken killed this step and said, “These cuts do nothing to deal with anti -Semitism” and for medical and scientific breakthroughs it would be “deadly buttons”.
UCLA created a working group for security and anti -Semitism from protests.
Under pressure, the University of California agreed to negotiate with Trump’s administration before the date of the court proceedings of 2 September. The aim of the interviews is to restore financing, but precedents are worrying: Columbia paid $ 200 million and Brown University paid $ 50 million for re -obtaining its grants.
More than 3,000 UCLA employees were attended by an emergency town hall on Monday, while Vice President Roger Wakimoto warned that scientists did not even have access to existing funds for critical work. Frenk, whose family fled from Nazi Germany, emphasized the reforms of UCLA, but called freezing “cruel manipulation” unrelated to the struggle of hatred. California Governor Gavin Newsom blasted Trump for the “weapon of Jewish students”.
Projects in danger include:
- Organ transplant technology keeps the lungs “breathing” off the body
- Systems to track asteroids guarding the country before the threat of the universe
- Research on the treatment of fever valleys in a fatal disease
The faculty warns that freezing can cancel decades of progress, such as the role of UCLA in creating the Internet. With the settlement of Columbia as templates, they face tough elections: Pay massive fines or permanently with a risk. “Every agreement makes it difficult for others to resist,” Mia Mciver warned. As UC negotiates, scientists nationwide rebellion for the ripple effects, hope that life work in the political war will not become collateral.
(Tagstotranslate) Trump administration
