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A report from Northwestern University, but I don't know how widespread this is yet. The targets at Northwestern are all "DEI"-related in some sense or others. Are cancellations reaching beyond that, and is this affecting other schools? Links to more information welcome in the comments.
Also cancelled are grants for research on misinformation and climate change https://www.science.org/content/article/killing-grants-nsf-appears-follow-ted-cruz-s-blueprint
According to this article at the New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/science/trump-national-science-foundation-grants.html , the cancellations are based on a keyword search. While this might reveal "DEI"-related material, it apparently also pulls in for cancellation grants with the word "biodiversity", a catch-all term for various aspects of biological diversity (the number of species, their distribution of relative abundance, phylogenetic affinity, etc.). Of course, the new leaders of the NSF may be happy to get rid of grants for the study of biodiversity, as well.
This website is collating grant terminations at NSF and NIH: https://grant-watch.us/
There are many grants being terminated at many institutions. Many terminations seem to have to do with DEI, some with research on misinformation, and others have no discernible connection to either topic. 40% of terminated grants are at the directorate for research on STEM education. There are also nearly half as many new grants being awarded as usual.
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