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Tuesday, April 2, 2013

What Graduate Students Should Know About the Sequester

The number of students admitted for graduate school will decrease because of the sequester.

Admissions criteria will change at some schools because of sequestration.

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The number of students admitted for graduate school will decrease because of the sequester.
The number of students admitted for graduate school will decrease because of the sequester.
Research universities and graduate assistants across the nation are starting to feel thesequester's impact. The across-the-board, $85 billion in discretionary spending cuts began just one month ago.
"My NIH grant has already been affected. Our budget has been altered because of it," says Thomas Brown, a professor and vice chair of research for the Department of Neuroscience, Biology and Physiology at Wright State University.
Brown is using a five-year grant from the National Institutes of Health to research pregnancy-associated disorders, such as preeclampsia, and figure out how to treat them. This year he has seven people working with him. Because of the sequester, his budget has shrunk.
"We've already done this math and we're going to have to go from seven to five. At least for the foreseeable next six months or so," he says.
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In his lab, and the hundreds of other labs at research universities in the U.S., many of the employees are graduate school students who serve as teaching or research assist

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