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Wayne State President warns $17 million in federal grants have been terminated, urges state support for research and student aid
Summary
Wayne State University President Kimberly Espie told the House Appropriations Subcommittee that roughly 32–33 federal research grants—predominantly from the National Institutes of Health—have been canceled or terminated, costing the university about $17 million and prompting a plea for continued state appropriations to support research and student aid.
Chairman Markkanen and members of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Higher Education and Community Colleges heard on the record that Wayne State University has lost federal research funding that supports faculty, students and Michigan businesses.
"We've had roughly, I think, 32 to 33 grants that have been canceled or terminated," Wayne State University President Kimberly Espie told the committee when Representative Zoe Rogers asked how much federal grant funding the university had had frozen or clawed back. Espie said the net value of those losses at Wayne State is about $17,000,000 and that about 80 percent of the affected funding had come from the National Institutes of Health.
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