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The University of Minnesota says it has lost 79 federal grants totaling more than $22 million after Trump administration budget cuts and that it does not know what's coming next.

The U of M says most of the cuts are related to biomedical, environmental, and energy and natural resources work. It also says roughly 220 university personnel are connected to the terminated grants.

At a Board of Regents meeting Thursday, Vice President for Research and Innovation Shashank Priya outlined where most of the grant funding has been lost: “The most common ones are including DEI and gender-related activities… And other areas such as climate and vaccine research.” 

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President Rebecca Cunningham says the university remains a "research powerhouse," but she says managing through all of the uncertainty has added a tremendous amount to the workload of administrators.

The university has put together a rapid response team to help navigate budget cuts. The school is also working with other higher education institutions for best practices in this time of unknowns.

Mark Zdechlik

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Many of the grants funded biomedical, environmental, and energy and natural resources work. More than one-third of the terminated grants included DEI and gender-related activities.

U of M has lost 79 grants totaling more than $22M from federal cuts

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