The federal government has canceled more than 60 University of Maryland grants as of Friday.
“The number can fluctuate as we continue to work on grant reinstatement,” a university spokesperson wrote in a statement to The Diamondback on Friday. “We have seen these cuts across agencies and disciplines. More than a dozen federal agencies have issued stop work orders of terminations this year.”
The loss of the $30 million in grants could be seen across multiple years, according to the university statement.
University president Darryll Pines told The Diamondback in May that about 70 grants and contracts at this university, totaling about $12 million, had been cancelled or paused since U.S. President Donald Trump returned to office in January.
The change in the number of grants and their combined amount compared to May is due to more cancellations and some grant reinstatements in recent months.
The Diamondback found in May that at least 14 of those terminated grants were from the National Science Foundation, according to the Grant Witness database, which crowdsources National Institutes of Health and NSF grant cancellations from researchers across the country.
Federal agencies such as NIH and the Department of Education awarded some of the other cut grants, Pines previously told The Diamondback.
Many researchers at this university said in May that they did not receive information from the federal government about why their grants were cancelled or paused.
Some professors at this university told The Diamondback in May that they believed their funding was terminated because their research included language referring to “diversity, equity and inclusion.” Since entering office, Trump has used his influence to suppress diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives through a slew of executive orders and policies targeting such measures in programs that receive federal money, the Associated Press reported.
Reach Apurva Mahajan at amahaja@umd.edu.
