Billions of grant dollars from the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation have fueled great tides of research and innovation at the University of Wisconsin-Madison for the past century, but this year, even that critical funding won’t be able to remedy what federal cuts have wrought.
The cuts are “jeopardizing the pace and status of innovation,” said Dorota Grejner-Brzezinska, UW-Madison’s vice chancellor for research. “I just need to be blunt because this is what’s happening. This funding is crucial to the United States maintaining leadership, and for us working hand-in-hand with WARF.”
Grejner-Brzezinska said that for the last 75 years, the federal government and academia in the U.S. have worked cooperatively to support research as “a well-oiled machine,” yielding groundbreaking discoveries and addressing global needs.