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America’s Research Community Speaks Out

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

Stephen R. Forrest Vice President for Research University of Michigan	Daniel Colon-Ramos, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Cell Biology Yale School of Medicine Yale University
Ahmad "Mo" Khalil, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Boston University	Earl Scime Chair, Department of Physics West Virginia University
Dr. Ali Rezai Director, Center for Neuromodulation Ohio State University	Laurie Leshin Dean of the School of Science Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Mansoor Amiji Distinguished Professor & Chair, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences Northeastern University	Lucas Arzola CEO, Inserogen The University of California - Davis
Patrick G. O'Shea Vice President for Research University of Maryland	Melinda Cromie Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Neurology, Stanford School of Medicine Stanford University
Bernadette Gray-Little Chancellor University of Kansas	Phyllis Wise Chancellor University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Charlie Riordan Vice Provost of Research University of Delaware	Raymond J. Dingledine Executive Associate Dean for Research Emory University School of Medicine
Dr. Rebecca Jackson Director, Center for Clinical and Translational Science The Ohio State University	Joseph DeSimone Professor, UNC–Chapel Hill and NC State University Director, Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise at UNC-Chapel Hill
Dr. Sandra Hewett and Colleagues Syracuse University	Harlan Spence Professor of Physics; Director of the Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans and Space University of New Hampshire
Matt Tirrell Pritzker Director, Institute for Molecular Engineering University of Chicago	Robert Buhrman Senior Vice Provost for Research Cornell University
Angela DePace Assistant Professor of Systems Biology Harvard Medical School	Dr. Jeffrey R. Balser Vice Chancellor Health Affairs Vanderbilt University
April MacIntyre and Hamza Rahimi Undergraduate Students George Washington University	Patricia Butterfield Dean, College of Nursing Washington State University
Suzanne Weaver Smith, Ph.D. Professor of Mechanical Engineering & Director of NASA Kentucky University of Kentucky	William Chin, MD Executive Dean for Research Harvard Medical School
John Anthony, Ph.D. Professor of Chemistry University of Kentucky	Michael B. Reid, Ph.D. Professor and Chair of Physiology University of Kentucky
Dan Bernardo Dean, College of Agricultural, Human and Natural Resource Sciences Washington State University

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