From the Harvard Crimson: Harvard has now received payments on the majority of funding that it lost since the Trump administration froze its access to federal grants this spring, the University notified faculty this month. Most of Harvard’s federal awards were reinstated in the days after a judge struck down in early September the Trump administration’s roughly $2.7 billion freeze on multiyear grant and contract commitments. But the money itself has been slower to flow back to Harvard’s coffers. It took more than two weeks before Harvard received $46 million in Department of Health and Human Services grants. And it was more than a week later when Harvard informed faculty, in an Oct. 1 email from Vice Provost for Research John H. Shaw and Chief Financial Officer Ritu Kalra, that the majority of frozen funds had hit Harvard accounts.
...Harvard’s research projects receive more than $600 million per year from the federal government — almost none of which flowed during the months that the funding freeze was in place.
...Earlier this year, after [the Harvard School of Public Health] lost nearly all of its direct grants from the federal government this spring, the school laid off employees, exited leases on two buildings, and made cuts to department budgets. Harvard also paused merit-based wage increases for faculty for the 2025-26 fiscal year and announced a University-wide hiring freeze. Other Harvard schools have not pulled back from austerity measures... Harvard Medical School Dean George Q. Daley ’82 warned in a Sept. 18 address that the school would continue to reduce its research spending, and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences announced major staff layoffs last week.
...HHS opened suspension and debarment proceedings into Harvard in September that could cut off its access to federal grants and contracts if the agency determines it is not a responsible recipient of government funds.
Full story at https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/10/14/majority-federal-funds/.
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