American Chemical Society announces new support for at-risk master’s and PhD chemistry students
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Rebecca Trager2025-08-19T13:30:00
$2.5 million programme launched to fund 100 students whose PI’s grants were cancelled by the Trump administration
The American Chemical Society (ACS) has launched a new one-year funding initiative to provide $2.5 million (£1.85 million) to support 100 master and doctoral chemistry students whose work has been disrupted by the cancellation of their adviser’s grants.
‘These will go to MS and PhD students within one year of their degree completion who are at risk of not finishing because of some termination or cancellation of their research,’ announced Wayne Jones, who chairs the ACS board of directors, at the opening session of the ACS Fall conference in Washington DC. ‘This will be up to 100 grants total,’ he said. ‘We want to protect the future of our US-based scientific workforce.’