America’s Research Community Speaks Out

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Video editorials tell Congress: Save research funding; stop the budget sequester

When Congress passed the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 (ATRA) and averted the threatened“fiscal cliff,” it left in place the budget sequester, simply delaying its implementation by two months.The budget sequester – the across-the-board cuts to discretionary spending required under the BudgetControl Act of 2011 – will automatically take effect March 1, 2013 if Congress doesn’t act to repeal it.

Members of America’s research community are speaking out in defense of funding for scientific and medical research. The videos on this page illustrate the breadth of concern and the far-reaching impact that the cuts imposed by the sequester – on top of the annual spending caps already imposed by theBudget Control Act – will have on America’s ability to discover, innovate, educate and maintain our scientific and technological leadership.

This page will be updated regularly with additional videos. Check back often.

Video Editorials

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Stephen R. Forrest
Vice President for Research
University of Michigan

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Daniel Colon-Ramos, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Cell Biology Yale School of Medicine
Yale University

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Ahmad "Mo" Khalil, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Boston University

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Earl Scime
Chair, Department of Physics
West Virginia University

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Dr. Ali Rezai
Director, Center for Neuromodulation
Ohio State University

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Laurie Leshin

Dean of the School of Science
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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Mansoor Amiji
Distinguished Professor & Chair, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Northeastern University

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Lucas Arzola
CEO, Inserogen
The University of California - Davis

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Patrick G. O'Shea
Vice President for Research
University of Maryland

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Melinda Cromie
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Neurology, Stanford School of Medicine
Stanford University

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Bernadette Gray-Little
Chancellor
University of Kansas

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Phyllis Wise
Chancellor
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Charlie Riordan
Vice Provost of Research
University of Delaware

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Raymond J. Dingledine
Executive Associate Dean for Research
Emory University School of Medicine

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Dr. Rebecca Jackson
Director, Center for Clinical and Translational Science
The Ohio State University

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Joseph DeSimone
Professor, UNC–Chapel Hill and NC State University
Director, Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise at UNC-Chapel Hill

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Dr. Sandra Hewett and Colleagues
Syracuse University

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Harlan Spence
Professor of Physics; Director of the Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans and Space
University of New Hampshire

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Matt Tirrell
Pritzker Director, Institute for Molecular Engineering
University of Chicago

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Robert Buhrman
Senior Vice Provost for Research
Cornell University

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Angela DePace
Assistant Professor of Systems Biology
Harvard Medical School

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Dr. Jeffrey R. Balser
Vice Chancellor Health Affairs
Vanderbilt University

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April MacIntyre and Hamza Rahimi
Undergraduate Students
George Washington University

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Patricia Butterfield
Dean, College of Nursing
Washington State University

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Suzanne Weaver Smith, Ph.D.
Professor of Mechanical Engineering & Director of NASA Kentucky
University of Kentucky

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William Chin, MD
Executive Dean for Research
Harvard Medical School

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John Anthony, Ph.D.
Professor of Chemistry
University of Kentucky

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Michael B. Reid, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair of Physiology
University of Kentucky

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Dan Bernardo
Dean, College of Agricultural, Human and Natural Resource Sciences
Washington State University

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