There continues to be significant uncertainty about the full financial impact of the ongoing volatility of the national economic landscape,” university officials wrote in a letter on Thursday.

University leaders say the freeze will begin immediately and remain in effect through the end of the 2025 fiscal year.

Brown, in February, in a letter to the “Brown Community,” wrote, “Brown received more than $250 million in federal funding in Fiscal Year 2024 from these agencies [NIH, but also the Department of Defense, Department of Veterans Affairs, NASA and other federal agencies].”

Early Thursday morning, Brown announced it would be implementing a temporary, staff-wide hiring freeze in response to the “uncertainty we now face from federal actions.” In a letter to community members,

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