Eric Schuster, a 23-year-old lab assistant at the Scripps Institute of Oceanography, shares insights about the challenges faced by recent graduates in science due to cuts in funding and support from the Trump administration. With nearly $90 million in government grants frozen or ended, many labs are struggling to keep operations running. Schuster is thankful for his position but fears job stability. In response to ongoing concerns over funding, he plans to move to France for graduate studies and continue his career outside the U.S., reflecting a trend among graduates seeking stability abroad.
The relentless cuts to scientific research and attacks on higher education by the Trump administration have turned what felt like a promising academic future into unstable ground.
UCSD, which SIO is a part of, told the Guardian that the Trump administration has ended or frozen roughly $90m in grants from the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation.
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