Civic Conversations welcomed Thomas Kaufman, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Biology at Indiana University, to discuss the impact of the loss of science funding in the United States. In 2025, over 3,800 grants from the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation were terminated or frozen by the Trump Administration. Indiana University and three other state universities lost approximately $24.5 million in federal research grants. According to Kaufman, the impact will be dramatic, saying, "Once expertise and personnel are lost, research programs are extremely difficult to restart" because those personnel move on.
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