Northwestern confirmed recent cases of grant terminations, payment suspensions and stop-work orders tied to a $790 million federal funding freeze announced last month in a Thursday email from university administrators to the campus community.
The University still has not received official notice from the government about the freeze, according to the email.
“Although we still have not received official notification or details from the federal government that our federal research funding has been frozen, nor the conditions that would restore funding, we already have seen significant impacts,” the email read.
The message, signed by University President Michael Schill, Provost Kathleen Hagerty and other senior officials, clarified that the University has received 98 stop-work orders — primarily from the Department of Defense — and 51 grant terminations, most of which were issued before the funding freeze was announced.
Officials also confirmed that researchers have yet to receive payments for National Institutes of Health grants since March and indicated those funds may have been frozen.
Earlier last month, the University announced that it will continue to fund research affected by stop-work orders. In Thursday’s message, University officials noted that this decision is not a “permanent solution” and that NU hopes to eventually recoup the “costs of this research” once federal funding is restored.
Officials also stressed in the email that the University is exploring ways to resolve its funding challenges, including meeting with legislators, collaborating with peer universities and organizations like the American Association of Universities and pursuing legal representation.
The University also announced that it has revamped and retitled a University webpage, called “Responding to Federal Policies,” to chronicle the University’s responses to recent federal policies.
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