UIUC department responses to federal funding freezes

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3	This list is meant to identify UIUC department responses to federal funding freezes as well as track effects felt by each department.
4	Please comment in the appropriate square any information you know, ideally with links or indicating where you heard it from. If you would like to have a written personal communication verified, please DM u/theritchielab, otherwise it will be listed as a rumor.
5	We will be looking through comments and updating the sheet as necessary. If you don't see your department, choose a roughly appropriate box, and we will add it.
6	Note that we are doing our best to curate/make the information as accurate as possible, but information is moving fast and sources can be incomplete. If you see errors or have newer information, please comment.
7	SOCIAL MEDIA LITERACY REMINDER: This is a crowdsourced spreadsheet from the internet! Don't trust everything you read on the internet. Check the date and the source before trusting information and please update if you have more reliable/up to date info.
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11	Department	Have any grad students or professors been unable to renew their grants?	Source	Has your department shared a backup plan for funding grad students who lose their grants/fellowships?	Source	Have any postdocs in your department been fired due to funding freezes?	Source	Is your department altering graduate admissions?	Source	Is your department altering faculty hiring?	Source	Is your department altering its policy towards protection or support for minority students?	Source
12	Aerospace Engineering
13	Agricultural and Consumer Economics Science
14	Animal Sciences
15	Anthropology
16	Architecture
17	Art and Design
18	Atmospheric Sciences					Unknown, but they published a letter asking anyone who was struggling with employment in meterology to reach out	Feb 28 Open letter to Fellow Meterologists and Climate Scientists
19	Biochemistry
20	Business
21	Chemical Engineering
22	Chemistry
23	Communication
24	Computer Science
25	Ecology
26	Economics
27	Education
28	Electrical and Computer Engineering
29	Environmental and Civil Engineering
30	Food Science and Human Nutrition
31	Geography and geographic information sciences							"Our department is in a strong financial position - we continue to admit and fund graduate students and our specialized faculty and staff positions remain secure."	Week 6 (Feb 24) GGIS email	"Our department is in a strong financial position - we continue to admit and fund graduate students and our specialized faculty and staff positions remain secure."	Week 6 (Feb 24) GGIS email
32	History
33	Information Science
34	IGB					Visiting researcher (aka postdoc) from USDA fired	Shared at stand up for science march on March 7
35	Integrative Biology	No	SIB townhall on Feb 14	In the absolute worst case scenario, like if funding completely stopped entirely tomorrow, the dept said that they have enough money to cover grad students stipends as RAs at least until the end of the year.	SIB townhall on Feb 14					Speculated to be pausing hiring of faculty	Rumor on Mar 2	Unclear. Offered a vague statement that they remain committed to their values.	SIB townhall on Feb 14
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37	Mathematics
38	Molecular and Cellular Biology			There are enough MCB classes that they could give everyone a TAship	MCB Townhall			Will only be accepting 20 students (~40 per year is normal)	MCB Townhall
39	Mechanical Engineering
40	Music
41	Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences	At least one grad student is unable to renew her grant	Word of mouth March 1
42	Neuroscience
43	Nuclear Plasma and Radiological Engineering
44	Philosophy
45	Physics	No	Physics townhall on Feb 13	Will be helping them find new grants, not going to allow good research to have to stop.	Physics townhall on Feb 13	No	Physics townhall on Feb 13	No	Physics townhall on Feb 13	Not yet, but may if the situation becomes dire	Physics townhall on Feb 13	No. Stated that they will not obey in advance.	Physics townhall on Feb 13
46	Plant Biology
47	Political Science
48	Psychology
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