(MondoNBC) — About 24 hours after the Trump administration said it would freeze more than $ 2 billion in federal grants and contracts, Harvard University's research arm began to
assess the fallout.
The impact is already acute at Harvard's School of Public Health, where professors are scrambling to salvage their research into tuberculous and cancer treatments.
Harvard - the nation's oldest and richest university - has emerged as a new symbol of the Trump resistance after refusing to capitulate to a series of policy changes the administration had demanded. Now, having put itself in an uncertain position, Harvard must weigh its next moves.
John Shaw, vice provost for research at Harvard, emailed colleagues Tuesday evening asking them to notify the Office for Sponsored Programs of any funding disruptions become aware of - and what steps they ought to take.
