Lamont backfills $35M in lost federal research grants for UConn

CT Mirror – Thursday, May 14, 2026
By Theo Peck-Suzuki

Gov. Ned Lamont and other elected officials joined faculty and administrators at the University of Connecticut Thursday to announce $35 million in state aid to offset lost federal research funds.

The money would come out of Connecticut’s Federal Cuts Response Fund, which legislators created for Lamont last year to prop up programs facing cuts by the Trump administration. The governor is sending $21 million to UConn and $14 million to UConn Health, which together report losing almost $100 million in research grants since the start of Trump’s second term.

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