The media told you. And what they don't have. [emphasis, links added]
Columbia occupies nearly 180 people for cutting Trump's research – The New York Times
Columbia University has about 180 employees after Trump administration withdraws grants – Fox News
Columbia cuts 180 employees funded by federal grant withdrawn by the Trump administration – NBC News
Who are the researchers? what are they doing?
This is information that the media doesn't care or seems interested in following up. You intend to think they are doing some important medical or scientific research.
However, the Colombia paper does have profiles for some researchers who canceled grants.
Camilla Green, BC '22, is a research assistant at the Lamont Climate School of Integrated Earth Systems Information Center, dedicated to the production of NASA's socioeconomic data and application center, a research project established in 1994 and managed by Ciesin.
Ciesin’s research is “at the intersection of society, nature and information science, specializing in online data and information management, spatial data integration and training, and interdisciplinary research related to human interaction in the environment” According to the Climate School website.
As part of the canceled $400 million, the federal government cut funds to Sedac, one of the largest grant terminations to date.
Sedac looks creepy, and it's one thing that NASA's important space exploration work. The whole thing needs to go away.
Samantha Winter, a professor at the School of Social Work, saw her two grants cancelled. Grants fund climate change research in East Africa and its impact on the health and well-being of communities in the most affected areas.
Winter told viewers that the cancelled grant is intended to help the Anga Centre for Climate Justice, Health Equity and Community Well-being, a program launched in October 2024
What will we do without paying social workers to study climate equity and justice in East Africa?
Or is schizophrenia in South Africa?
Ezra Susser, CC '74, Public Health '82, Public Health '92, Professor of Epidemiology and Psychiatry at the Postal School of Public Health, said it was “shocking” to hear his two grants were cancelled. He said cuts are affecting “all work legacy.”
Susser's grant is to study genomics and psychiatric epidemiology training programs for schizophrenia in South Africa.
There is a reason the media doesn’t get into the details here. If the cancelled contract is to save lives, we will keep hearing it from the media.
Instead, the media pushes research that public hypotheses is important rather than left-wing fairness and global warming efforts.
But maybe the private sector wants to fund climate research in East Africa?
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