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Heel Talk

Episodes (100)

Nov 19, 2025 Cuts, Delays and Uncertainty: The New Reality for UNC Research
Sep 30, 2025 Ragebait or Real Discourse? Fearless Debates Hits UNC
Apr 28, 2025 SEVIS Status Restored: What You Missed Last Week at UNC

Heel Talk

Nov 19, 2025
11¼ minutes
17 MB

Since early 2025, federal agencies have shifted their research priorities, cutting or freezing grants that many UNC researchers depend on. Those changes have forced researchers across campus to adjust their projects, rewrite proposals and search for new funding. Professor of Nutrition at the Gillings School of Public Health Alice Ammerman describes how the shake-up has disrupted her community-based research. Senior Associate Vice Chancellor for Research Andy Johns explains how these federal shifts are reshaping UNC's research enterprise and how the University is responding. 111 grants were terminated, leading to $38 million of lost funding as of Sept. 2, 2025. <...

Heel Talk

Cuts, Delays and Uncertainty: The New Reality for UNC Research

The Daily Tar Heel

00:00 -11:17