Harvard slashing PhD programs + layoffs

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:^Sure lol! As if medical research can be only conducted in Cambridge and not Lawrence Kansas or beautiful Boulder Colorado.

Lol. We decimated the entire research budget. That goes for Kansas and Colorado as well as Massachusetts

[Anonymous]

Don’t give them a dime.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^Sure lol! As if medical research can be only conducted in Cambridge and not Lawrence Kansas or beautiful Boulder Colorado.

Lol. We decimated the entire research budget. That goes for Kansas and Colorado as well as Massachusetts

Don't confuse them with facts.

[Anonymous]

System has always been rigged for Harvard’s benefit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:System has always been rigged for Harvard’s benefit.

Also, we should definitely destroy science research in this country so we can smack Harvard around. That is going to be to no one's benefit.

[Anonymous]

I guess the libs have been owned.

[Anonymous]

It’s not like the Coca Cola formula do scientic research at the public universities. But that doesn’t sit well with northeast liberals.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I guess the libs have been owned.

When the president of the United States overrides mountains of scientific weather data with a big black sharpie on a map without consequence, I think we have all been owned.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does this mean to sway your kid away from a PhD path in science/engineering?

If it’s happening at Harvard, does this mean it will happen everywhere?

It's already happening. Many PhD--STEM and non-STEM--programs across the country admitted fewer new students this year or none at all.

[Anonymous]

I know math phds at a topic public that are loosing funding. This will be the new normal.

[Anonymous]

SEAS Layoffs: Nearly a dozen staff who directly support students, including advisers and lecturers, were laid off at Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences earlier this month — drawing sadness and complaints from undergraduates. In total, the layoffs affected roughly 35 staff in SEAS.

[Anonymous]

That said, my kid is in SEAS and has not been affected by advisers being laid off.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just means those on the margins won’t have a free ride PhD.

If this country doesn't want to fund high-level science education and research, other countries will compete for it.

Again, US will be funding the A and B teams, rest of the world will be funding the scrubs.

That’s not really how research works though. Banking 100% on just the Terrence Taos would get you a grad student every…10-20 years. There aren’t that many seminal developers in science, but there are a lot of amazing researchers who help us get to the next step.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:^Sure lol! As if medical research can be only conducted in Cambridge and not Lawrence Kansas or beautiful Boulder Colorado.

They all had research funding cut you idiot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^Sure lol! As if medical research can be only conducted in Cambridge and not Lawrence Kansas or beautiful Boulder Colorado.

Lol. We decimated the entire research budget. That goes for Kansas and Colorado as well as Massachusetts

Indeed. And the PP you responded to is clearly an idiot who doesn't realize that.