{"id":1275,"date":"2025-04-29T12:00:40","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T12:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetoptenwebhosts.com\/?p=1275"},"modified":"2025-04-30T10:16:59","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T10:16:59","slug":"federal-govt-gave-nyu-732-million-in-research-spending-last-academic-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thetoptenwebhosts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/29\/federal-govt-gave-nyu-732-million-in-research-spending-last-academic-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal gov\u2019t gave NYU $732 million in research spending last academic year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nyunews.com\/news\/2025\/04\/29\/nyu-2024-disclosed-audit\/\" title=\"Federal gov\u2019t gave NYU $732 million in research spending last academic year\"><img width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image lazyload\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.thetoptenwebhosts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/news-audit-1200x800-1.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">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<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">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><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyu.edu\/about\/leadership-university-administration\/office-of-the-president\/office-of-the-provost\/support-for-research-at-nyu\/institutional-support-for-faculty.html#:~:text=The%20NEH%20Summer%20Stipends%20Program,full%2Dtime%20research%20and%20writing\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">support scholarship<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in fields like social sciences and history. Just months following the period on file, the Trump administration slashed thousands of research grants \u2014 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/nyunews.com\/news\/2025\/01\/29\/trump-aid-freeze-cancels-nyu-grants\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">including at least two at NYU<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u2014 related to \u201cwoke\u201d subjects such as race, gender and environmentalism.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">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<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">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<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">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<p><em>Contact Amelia Hernandez Gioia at agioia@nyunews.com.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This story <a href=\"https:\/\/nyunews.com\/news\/2025\/04\/29\/nyu-2024-disclosed-audit\/\">Federal gov\u2019t gave NYU $732 million in research spending last academic year<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/nyunews.com\">Washington Square News<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NYU received over $732 million in research funding from the federal government in the last&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1277,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thetoptenwebhosts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thetoptenwebhosts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thetoptenwebhosts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thetoptenwebhosts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thetoptenwebhosts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1275"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.thetoptenwebhosts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1278,"href":"http:\/\/www.thetoptenwebhosts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275\/revisions\/1278"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thetoptenwebhosts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thetoptenwebhosts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thetoptenwebhosts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thetoptenwebhosts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}