The Trump administration halted 64 grants the federal government was giving to the University of Arizona (UA), totaling $59.2 million, according to AZPM.
Funding was cut for projects such as integrating Indigenous knowledge into geoscience education at Grand Canyon National Park and addressing racial inequity in STEM education.
The Trump administration has attempted to cut more than $250 million in grants to Arizona universities, research institutions, and companies. More than 300 of the UA’s 376 grants would be affected if all the cuts were implemented, totaling $126 million of the university’s $229 million in grants.
Another grant that was canceled “would have focused on addressing some of the disproportionate negative impacts of stormwater flooding on marginalized communities in New Orleans,” said Kristin Gunckel, a professor of science education in UA’s College of Education. Three of the grants went to Native Americans, including one that would have provided free assistance to tribes to help them obtain environmental justice funding.
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