Straws in the Wind - Part 335

From The Dartmouth: At the end of April 2025, four federal grants funding Dartmouth research in the anthropology and health-related fields were canceled by the National Institutes of Health. While the College appealed all four cancellation decisions, only one grant has been reinstated. The College “continues to monitor the status” of the three remaining cancelled grants, according to an email statement from College spokesperson Morgan Kelly. 

Two of the terminated grants were Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award F31 Individual Predoctoral Fellowships, which fund students from underrepresented groups in health-related studies. A third was a $2 million grant from the Initiative for Maximising Student Development program, which provides stipend support, mentoring and other community programming for Ph.D. students engaged in behavioral, biomedical and clinical research. The fourth was a $141,000 grant from Increasing Diversity in Evolutionary Anthropological Sciences that funds mentorship and training to reduce the underrepresentation of minority scholars in biological anthropology.

The other cancelled grants are “receiving or seeking,” support from “other funds,” Kelly wrote...

Full story at https://www.thedartmouth.com/article/2026/04/ehrlich-a-year-after-the-cancellation-of-federal-grants-at-dartmouth-one-has-been-reinstated.