Some of the grants paid for military-specific medical research, studies on countering weapons of mass destruction and research on lasers, among numerous other topics, Reuters found.
For example, U.S. officials ended Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Professor Katia Bertoldi's $6 million Pentagon-funded project developing shape-changing structures with military applications two weeks ago, despite being at a critical juncture in its research cycle.
Funded through the Department of defence's Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative, she was developing technology based on origami that would lead to reconfigurable antennas, and deployable shelters like field hospitals.
Secretary of defence Pete Hegseth “directed the termination of several programs, contracts and grants that were not aligned with the Department’s priorities to cut wasteful spending, implement the President’s orders, and reallocate savings to mission-critical priorities,“ a Pentagon spokesperson told Reuters.
The administration has frozen approximately $3 billion in federal grants to Harvard, with Trump complaining on Truth Social that Harvard has hired “Democrats, Radical Left idiots and ‘bird brains’” as professors. On Monday, Trump said he is considering redirecting billions of dollars of previously awarded scientific and engineering research grants from Harvard to trade schools.
The research cancellations affect extensive collaborative networks. Bertoldi's project included researchers from the University of Pennsylvania and Georgia Tech.
Bertoldi said, “In China, as far as I know, colleagues that moved back to China, there’s a lot of support for this type of research.”
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