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NYU received over $732 million in research funding from the federal government in the last academic year, as well as an additional $700 million for financial aid \u2014 a 3.4% increase and 6.7% dip from the previous fiscal year, respectively.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The largest changes in research funding came from the Department of Commerce, which gave NYU around 379% more than it had the previous fiscal year to finance research on climate technology and wireless networks, and a 366% jump in funding from divisions within the National Endowment for the Humanities to <\/span>support scholarship<\/span><\/a> in fields like social sciences and history. Just months following the period on file, the Trump administration slashed thousands of research grants \u2014 <\/span>including at least two at NYU<\/span><\/a> \u2014 related to \u201cwoke\u201d subjects such as race, gender and environmentalism.<\/span><\/p>\n

In line with previous years, funding from the Department of Health and Human Services made up the majority of federal research grants to the university, with nearly $650 million in the latest report \u2014 a 2.7% increase from last year. The largest portion of the funding was directed to COVID-19 lung disease research, which totalled $156 million, and was seconded by research on neurological diseases and addiction prevention.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

All other agencies were on par with their amounts from previous years, with most seeing a 1-2% increase. Aside from the health department, NYU\u2019s largest spenders are still the National Science Foundation, which gave the university around $42 million for biological and physical sciences, the Department of Defense at around $23 million for military research and the Department of Agriculture at around $2.4 million for agricultural research.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Of the almost $700 million the federal government allotted to student financial aid at NYU \u2014 including Pell Grants, work-study programs and loan support \u2014 around 86.3% is for direct student loans. It represents a 5.6% drop from last fiscal year, when the university received nearly $750 million in funding for student financial aid.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

Contact Amelia Hernandez Gioia at agioia@nyunews.com.<\/em><\/p>\n

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