Northwestern Hit With 100 Stop-Work Orders for Federal Projects

Northwestern University said researchers with federal grants received 100 stop-work orders, hitting projects in areas including medicine and engineering.

The Trump administration signaled earlier this week it had paused $790 million of funds to Northwestern, and more than $1 billion to Cornell University, because of potential civil rights violations.

Northwestern said it hasn’t received official word of a “large-scale freeze or rationale,” but the affected grants include research into wearable devices, robotics, nanotechnology, foreign military training, Parkinson’s disease and “many other critical research programs supporting our nation,” Northwestern President Michael Schill and other administrators said in a letter Thursday. ...