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How NIH funding cuts could impact North Carolina universities and research

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Organizations of all kinds are scrambling to figure out what changes in federal funding might mean for their operations — including universities that receive federal money to fund their research.

¹ÏÉñapp’s Higher Education Reporter Brianna Atkinson explains the latest change to National Institutes of Health funding and how it could impact North Carolina universities and research.

Read more: Trump's order to cut NIH research funding would cut millions from NC universities

Guest

Brianna Atkinson, Higher Education Reporter, ¹ÏÉñapp

Leoneda Inge is the co-host of ¹ÏÉñapp's "Due South." Leoneda has been a radio journalist for more than 30 years, spending most of her career at ¹ÏÉñapp as the Race and Southern Culture reporter. Leoneda’s work includes stories of race, slavery, memory and monuments. She has won "Gracie" awards, an Alfred I. duPont Award and several awards from the Radio, Television, Digital ¹ÏÉñapp Association (RTDNA). In 2017, Leoneda was named "Journalist of Distinction" by the National Association of Black Journalists.
Brianna Atkinson is ¹ÏÉñapp’s 2024 Fletcher Fellow and covers higher education in partnership with .
Rachel McCarthy is a producer for "Due South." She previously worked at ¹ÏÉñapp as a producer for "The Story with Dick Gordon." More recently, Rachel was podcast managing editor at Capitol Broadcasting Company where she developed narrative series and edited a daily podcast. She also worked at "The Double Shift" podcast as supervising producer. Rachel learned about audio storytelling at the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies. Prior to working in audio journalism, she was a research assistant at the Aspen Institute in Washington, DC.
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