Will Harvard Continue to Lead the Charge? - Part 18

From the Harvard Crimson: Harvard will cease funding more than 570 subawards for research at affiliated institutions across 32 states after cuts to federal support, according to a University spokesperson. Affiliate institutions will now take on any further spending on the hundreds of active research projects, which were previously backed by federal grants and contracts awarded to Harvard, at their own financial risk, the University told subrecipients... Harvard’s messages came as mass terminations of federally funded grants from the Trump administration have racked up a price tag of more than $2.7 billion since April. Harvard has sued to block the funding freeze, but the matter will likely take months to be resolved.

The halt to subawards means the grant freeze will have ramifications far beyond Harvard’s gates. In April, Department of Education spokesperson Madison Biedermann said that hospitals affiliated with Harvard would not be affected by the Trump administration’s then-$2.2 billion pause on federal grants and contracts...

Last fiscal year, Harvard spent more than $181 million, or roughly 18 percent, of its sponsored funding — which comes primarily from the federal government but also includes private sources — on subcontracts. Now, Harvard has lost almost all of its federal awards, which totaled $684 million last fiscal year. The lost grants include around 350 research grants to Harvard Medical School and more than 200 at the School of Public Health.

Full story at https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/6/8/harvard-subawards-cut/.