Trump administration freezes $200M in research funding to UCLA

Alex Walia

August 1, 2025

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The Trump administration has frozen hundreds of science, medical, and other federal grants to UCLA worth nearly $200 million, citing allegations that the university discriminated in admissions and failed to “promote a research environment free of antisemitism,” the Los Angeles Times reported.

The cancellation of grants comes days after U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi and the Department of Justice said that UCLA would pay a “heavy price” for violating a civil rights law after a pro-Palestinian encampment was erected last year and the campus allowed what the DOJ called a hostile environment for Jewish students.

An estimated 300 NSF grants totaling $180 million have been canceled, the L.A. Times reported. About half of the funds were already distributed, and researchers were expecting the other half to follow.

In a letter to the university community on Thursday, UCLA Chancellor Julio Frenk wrote that the canceled grants are from NSF, NIH and other federal agencies, but he did not give a dollar amount or list the other agencies, the L.A. Times reported. A partial list of suspended grants reviewed by the Times added up to roughly $200 million. The list was provided by a source who was not authorized to share the information.