The federal government froze the university’s research funding. It hasn’t offered the school a way to get it back.

The wave of money-saving measures comes after the Trump administration’s decision to freeze $790 million in federal funding to the school in April.

The Trump administration’s freezing of $790 million in federal research funding for Northwestern University has left concerned lab directors without key grants and forced the university to spend

The Trump administration has cut US government spending on health research to a 10-year low, forcing universities to dip into their endowment funds and hurting companies that sell lab supplies.

Northwestern University is making cutbacks and other financial moves following a freeze of federal funding by the Trump administration. In a letter issued Tuesday, officials announced reductions to administrative and academic budgets,

Most board of trustees are astonishingly unrepresentative of the students for whom they are supposed to defend the university’s values and mission.

As the third quarter of the 2024-25 academic year begins, this report documents what Northwestern University has done to achieve this ... in a 2019 executive order signed by President Donald Trump and re-affirmed by a new executive order Jan. 29, 2025 ...