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Encountering the Researchers Departing America Amid Trump's Funding Cuts and the Politicization of Science

Encountering the Researchers Departing America Amid Trump's Funding Cuts and the Politicization of Science

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October 19th, 2026

Encountering the Researchers Departing America Amid Trump's Funding Cuts and the Politicization of Science

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While Haley Froelich was firmly convinced that she would spend the entirety of her scientific career in the United States, her family had been residing in America since the 1700s.

ํ•ผ๋ฆฌ ํ”„๋กœ์—˜๋ฆฌํžˆ๋Š” ์ž์‹ ์˜ ๊ณผํ•™ ๊ฒฝ๋ ฅ ์ „๋ฐ˜์„ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์—์„œ ๋ณด๋‚ด๋ฆฌ๋ผ๊ณ  ๊ตณ๊ฒŒ ํ™•์‹ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋˜ ๋ฐ˜๋ฉด, ๊ทธ๋…€์˜ ๊ฐ€์กฑ์€ 1700๋…„๋Œ€ ์ด๋ž˜๋กœ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์— ๊ฑฐ์ฃผํ•ด ์™”๋‹ค.

However, with federal grant payments having been delayed over the past two years and anxieties about the future piling on top of that, she resolved to pack up her life into boxes and move.

๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ์ง€๋‚œ 2๋…„๊ฐ„ ์—ฐ๋ฐฉ ๋ณด์กฐ๊ธˆ ์ง€๊ธ‰์ด ์ง€์—ฐ๋œ ๋ฐ๋‹ค ๋ฏธ๋ž˜์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋ถˆ์•ˆ๊นŒ์ง€ ๊ฒน์น˜๋ฉด์„œ, ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ์‚ถ์˜ ํ„ฐ์ „์„ ์ƒ์ž์— ๊พธ๋ ค ์ด์‚ฌํ•  ๊ฒฐ์‹ฌ์„ ๊ตณํ˜”๋‹ค.

She relocated to Finland with her husband and daughter, and at the University of Helsinki she is researching how the fish, shellfish, and seaweed consumed by humans respond to climate change.

๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ๋‚จํŽธ๊ณผ ๋”ธ๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ํ•€๋ž€๋“œ๋กœ ์ด์ฃผํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ํ—ฌ์‹ฑํ‚ค ๋Œ€ํ•™์—์„œ ์ธ๊ฐ„์ด ์„ญ์ทจํ•˜๋Š” ์–ด๋ฅ˜ยท์กฐ๊ฐœ๋ฅ˜ยทํ•ด์กฐ๋ฅ˜๊ฐ€ ๊ธฐํ›„ ๋ณ€ํ™”์— ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋ฐ˜์‘ํ•˜๋Š”์ง€๋ฅผ ์—ฐ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

When, last year, the Trump administration began to upend American scientific research, dismantling federal grant procedures and seeking to exert stronger political influence over which projects would receive funding, foreign universities seized the opening.

์ž‘๋…„ ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„ ํ–‰์ •๋ถ€๊ฐ€ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์˜ ๊ณผํ•™ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ์ „๋ณต์‹œํ‚ค๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•˜๊ณ  ์—ฐ๋ฐฉ ๋ณด์กฐ๊ธˆ ์ง€๊ธ‰ ์ ˆ์ฐจ๋ฅผ ํ•ด์ฒดํ•˜๋ฉฐ ์–ด๋–ค ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ์— ์ž๊ธˆ์ด ์ง€์›๋ ์ง€์— ๊ด€ํ•ด ๋”์šฑ ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ์ •์น˜์  ์˜ํ–ฅ๋ ฅ์„ ํ–‰์‚ฌํ•˜๋ ค ๋“ค์ž, ์™ธ๊ตญ ๋Œ€ํ•™๋“ค์€ ๊ทธ ํ‹ˆ์„ ํฌ์ฐฉํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

They introduced programs designed to lure American researchers abroad, promising them a more stable flow of funding and academic freedom.

๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์ž๋“ค์„ ํ•ด์™ธ๋กœ ์œ ์ธํ•˜๋Š” ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ์„ ๋„์ž…ํ•˜๋ฉฐ ๋”์šฑ ์•ˆ์ •์ ์ธ ์ž๊ธˆ ํ๋ฆ„๊ณผ ํ•™๋ฌธ์  ์ž์œ ๋ฅผ ์•ฝ์†ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

After that, many succumbed to the temptation.

๊ทธ ํ›„ ๋งŽ์€ ์ด๋“ค์ด ๊ทธ ์œ ํ˜น์— ๊ตด๋ณตํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค.

Although there is no way to quantify the aggregate change on a nationwide scale, scientists, researchers, and professional organizations assert that the shift is unmistakable, unprecedented, and cause for concern.

์ „๊ตญ์ ์ธ ์ฐจ์›์˜ ์ด์ฒด์  ๋ณ€ํ™”๋ฅผ ์ˆ˜๋Ÿ‰ํ™”ํ•  ๋ฐฉ๋„๋Š” ์—†์œผ๋‚˜, ๊ณผํ•™์ž์™€ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์ž, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ง์—… ๋‹จ์ฒด๋“ค์€ ์ด ๋ณ€ํ™”๊ฐ€ ๋ถ„๋ช…ํ•˜๊ณ  ์ „๋ก€๊ฐ€ ์—†์œผ๋ฉฐ ์šฐ๋ ค์Šค๋Ÿฝ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์–ธ๋ช…ํ•œ๋‹ค.

Tobin Smith, senior vice president for government relations and public policy at the Association of American Universities, said, "Talk to almost any vice provost for research at a university, and they will tell you about the one or two top faculty members they have lost."

๋ฏธ๊ตญ๋Œ€ํ•™ํ˜‘ํšŒ(Association of American Universities)์˜ ์ •๋ถ€ ๊ด€๊ณ„ ๋ฐ ๊ณต๊ณต ์ •์ฑ… ๋‹ด๋‹น ์„ ์ž„ ๋ถ€ํšŒ์žฅ์ธ ํ† ๋นˆ ์Šค๋ฏธ์Šค๋Š” "๋Œ€ํ•™์˜ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ ๋‹ด๋‹น ๋ถ€์ด์žฅ ๋ˆ„๊ตฌ์™€ ๊ฑฐ์˜ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐํ•ด ๋ณด๋ฉด, ๊ทธ๋“ค์ด ์žƒ์€ ํ•œ๋‘ ๋ช…์˜ ์ตœ๊ณ  ๊ต์ˆ˜์ง„์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋งํ•ด์ค„ ๊ฒƒ"์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

White House spokesperson Liz Huston stated that Trump is "putting an end to waste" and is "committed to ensuring that the United States retains its standing as the world's foremost leader in scientific innovation, which means funding genuine science."

๋ฐฑ์•…๊ด€ ๋Œ€๋ณ€์ธ ๋ฆฌ์ฆˆ ํœด์Šคํ„ด์€ ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„๊ฐ€ "๋‚ญ๋น„๋ฅผ ์ข…์‹"์‹œํ‚ค๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ "๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ด ๊ณผํ•™ ํ˜์‹ ์˜ ์„ธ๊ณ„์  ์„ ๋‘ ์ฃผ์ž๋กœ์„œ์˜ ์ง€์œ„๋ฅผ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜๋„๋ก ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ์ „๋…ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ์ง„์ •ํ•œ ๊ณผํ•™์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ž๊ธˆ ์ง€์›์„ ์˜๋ฏธํ•œ๋‹ค"๊ณ  ๋ฐœ์–ธํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

However, according to an April report by the Business for Federal Research Funding Coalition, more than half of U.S. states have been stripped of scientists by other countries' recruitment programs.

๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ์—ฐ๋ฐฉ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ ์ž๊ธˆ์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ๊ธฐ์—… ์—ฐํ•ฉ(Business for Federal Research Funding Coalition)์˜ 4์›” ๋ณด๊ณ ์„œ์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅด๋ฉด, ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์ฃผ์˜ ์ ˆ๋ฐ˜ ์ด์ƒ์ด ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๋‚˜๋ผ์˜ ์ฑ„์šฉ ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ์— ์˜ํ•ด ๊ณผํ•™์ž๋“ค์„ ๋นผ์•—๊ฒผ๋‹ค.

In March, early-career biomedical scientists were roughly 20 percentage points less likely to say they would stay in the United States "now" than they recalled feeling six months earlier.

์ง€๋‚œ 3์›”, ์ดˆ๊ธฐ ๊ฒฝ๋ ฅ ์ƒ์˜ํ•™ ๊ณผํ•™์ž๋“ค์€ 6๊ฐœ์›” ์ „์— ๋А๊ผˆ๋˜ ๊ธฐ์–ต๊ณผ ๋น„๊ตํ•ด "์ง€๊ธˆ" ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์— ๋‚จ๊ฒ ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ•  ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ์ด ์•ฝ 20%ํฌ์ธํŠธ ๋‚ฎ์•˜๋‹ค.

And according to the American Institute of Physics, physics Ph.D. graduates in 2025 left the United States at the highest rate in three decades.

๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋ฏธ๊ตญ๋ฌผ๋ฆฌํ•™ํšŒ(American Institute of Physics)์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅด๋ฉด 2025๋…„ ๋ฌผ๋ฆฌํ•™ ๋ฐ•์‚ฌ ์กธ์—…์ƒ๋“ค์€ 30๋…„ ๋งŒ์— ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๋†’์€ ๋น„์œจ๋กœ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์„ ๋– ๋‚ฌ๋‹ค.

Several countries, including Canada, France, Belgium, and Finland, proudly tout their recruits from American institutions.

์บ๋‚˜๋‹ค, ํ”„๋ž‘์Šค, ๋ฒจ๊ธฐ์—, ํ•€๋ž€๋“œ ๋“ฑ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๊ตญ๊ฐ€๋Š” ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๊ธฐ๊ด€ ์ถœ์‹ ์˜ ์ฑ„์šฉ ์ธ๋ ฅ์„ ์ž๋ž‘์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ๋‚ด์„ธ์šฐ๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

Scientists say this is a shocking and astonishing development for a country that has produced by far the most Nobel laureates in medicine, physics, and chemistry.

๊ณผํ•™์ž๋“ค์€ ์˜ํ•™, ๋ฌผ๋ฆฌํ•™, ํ™”ํ•™ ๋ถ„์•ผ์—์„œ ๋…ธ๋ฒจ์ƒ์„ ์••๋„์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๋งŽ์ด ๋ฐฐ์ถœํ•œ ๋‚˜๋ผ๋กœ์„œ ์ด๋Š” ์ถฉ๊ฒฉ์ ์ด๊ณ  ๋†€๋ผ์šด ๋ฐœ์ „์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋งํ•œ๋‹ค.

Christine Starvitz, currently employed at the University of Birmingham in the UK, remarked, "It used to be a shining city on a hill that we all looked up to," adding, "The loss of that reputation is difficult to quantify, but it inflicts truly immense harm."

ํ˜„์žฌ ์˜๊ตญ ๋ฒ„๋ฐ์—„ ๋Œ€ํ•™์— ์žฌ์ง ์ค‘์ธ ํฌ๋ฆฌ์Šคํ‹ด ์Šคํƒ€๋น„์ธ ๋Š” "์˜ˆ์ „์—๋Š” ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ๋ชจ๋‘๊ฐ€ ๋™๊ฒฝํ•˜๋˜ ์–ธ๋• ์œ„์˜ ๋น›๋‚˜๋Š” ๋„์‹œ์˜€๋‹ค"๋ฉฐ "๊ทธ ๋ช…์„ฑ์˜ ์ƒ์‹ค์€ ์ˆ˜๋Ÿ‰ํ™”ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์–ด๋ ต์ง€๋งŒ ์‹ค๋กœ ๋ง‰๋Œ€ํ•œ ํ•ด์•…์„ ๋ผ์นœ๋‹ค"๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Last year, Starvitz quit her job at the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and became a research software engineer in the UK.

์Šคํƒ€๋น„์ธ ๋Š” ์ง€๋‚œํ•ด ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ํ•ด์–‘๋Œ€๊ธฐ์ฒญ(NOAA)์—์„œ์˜ ์ง์žฅ์„ ๊ทธ๋งŒ๋‘๊ณ  ์˜๊ตญ์—์„œ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ ์†Œํ”„ํŠธ์›จ์–ด ์—”์ง€๋‹ˆ์–ด๊ฐ€ ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค.

She said that NOAA no longer aligned with her values, particularly after she was asked to remove references to climate change and to diversity, equity, and inclusion from its website.

๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ํŠนํžˆ ๊ธฐํ›„ ๋ณ€ํ™”์™€ ๋‹ค์–‘์„ฑ, ํ˜•ํ‰์„ฑ, ํฌ์šฉ์„ฑ ์ฃผ์ œ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์–ธ๊ธ‰์„ ์›น์‚ฌ์ดํŠธ์—์„œ ์ œ๊ฑฐํ•˜๋ผ๋Š” ์š”์ฒญ์„ ๋ฐ›์€ ํ›„, NOAA๊ฐ€ ๋” ์ด์ƒ ์ž์‹ ์˜ ๊ฐ€์น˜๊ด€๊ณผ ์ผ์น˜ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๋Š”๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

She says that the upheaval in American science is a topic commonly discussed at scientific conferences.

๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๊ณผํ•™๊ณ„์˜ ๊ฒฉ๋ณ€์ด ๊ณผํ•™ ํšŒ์˜์—์„œ ํ”ํžˆ ๋…ผ์˜๋˜๋Š” ์ฃผ์ œ๋ผ๊ณ  ๋งํ•œ๋‹ค.

"At conferences being held in Britain right now, people say about Americaโ€”well, I don't know what's going on, but things are not good," she said.

"์ง€๊ธˆ ์˜๊ตญ์—์„œ ์—ด๋ฆฌ๋Š” ํ•™ํšŒ์—์„œ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์€ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด, ๊ธ€์Ž„ ๋ฌด์Šจ ์ผ์ด ๋ฒŒ์–ด์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€๋Š” ๋ชจ๋ฅด๊ฒ ์ง€๋งŒ, ์ƒํ™ฉ์ด ์ข‹์ง€ ์•Š๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ•œ๋‹ค"๊ณ  ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Froehlich's decision to leave was one that had ripened gradually before finally being made.

ํ”„๋กœ์—˜๋ฆฌํžˆ๊ฐ€ ๋– ๋‚˜๊ธฐ๋กœ ํ•œ ๊ฒฐ์ •์€ ์„œ์„œํžˆ ๋ฌด๋ฅด์ต์–ด ๊ฐ„ ๋์— ๋‚ด๋ ค์ง„ ๊ฒƒ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค.

She had already been harboring concerns about school safety and gun violence in the United States when the country's research environment underwent an abrupt upheaval.

๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ์ด๋ฏธ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์˜ ํ•™๊ต ์•ˆ์ „๊ณผ ์ด๊ธฐ ํญ๋ ฅ์— ๊ด€ํ•ด ์šฐ๋ ค๋ฅผ ํ’ˆ๊ณ  ์žˆ๋˜ ์ฐจ์—, ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์˜ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ ํ™˜๊ฒฝ์ด ๊ธ‰๋ณ€ํ•˜๊ณ  ๋ง์•˜๋‹ค.

Then, at the University of California, Santa Barbara, colleagues' grants began to be postponed or canceled one after another.

์ด์–ด ์บ˜๋ฆฌํฌ๋‹ˆ์•„ ๋Œ€ํ•™ ์‚ฐํƒ€๋ฐ”๋ฐ”๋ผ ์บ ํผ์Šค์—์„œ๋Š” ๋™๋ฃŒ๋“ค์˜ ๋ณด์กฐ๊ธˆ์ด ์ž‡๋”ฐ๋ผ ์—ฐ๊ธฐ๋˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ์ทจ์†Œ๋˜๊ธฐ์— ์ด๋ฅด๋ €๋‹ค.

Student researchers burst into her office in tears, at a loss as to how to navigate their futures.

ํ•™์ƒ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์›๋“ค์€ ์šธ๋ฉด์„œ ๊ทธ๋…€์˜ ์‚ฌ๋ฌด์‹ค๋กœ ๋›ฐ์–ด๋“ค์–ด ์ž์‹ ์˜ ์•ž๋‚ ์„ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ํ—ค์ณ ๋‚˜๊ฐ€์•ผ ํ• ์ง€ ๋ชฐ๋ผ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

She was anxious about future federal funding for her research on climate change.

๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ๊ธฐํ›„ ๋ณ€ํ™”์™€ ๊ด€๋ จ๋œ ์ž์‹ ์˜ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ํ–ฅํ›„ ์—ฐ๋ฐฉ ์ž๊ธˆ ์ง€์›์„ ๊ฑฑ์ •ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Froehlich said, "The cumulative effect of all those things ultimately made us seriously consider that this is no longer our home."

ํ”„๋กœ์—˜๋ฆฌํžˆ๋Š” "๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ ๊ฒƒ๋“ค์˜ ๋ˆ„์ ๋œ ํšจ๊ณผ๊ฐ€ ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋กœ ํ•˜์—ฌ๊ธˆ ์—ฌ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ๋” ์ด์ƒ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ์ง‘์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ๊ณ  ์ง„์ง€ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋งŒ๋“ค์—ˆ๋‹ค"๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

She was recruited through an initiative of the Research Council of Finland and currently receives five years of guaranteed funding totaling roughly $3 million.

๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ํ•€๋ž€๋“œ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์œ„์›ํšŒ(Research Council of Finland)์˜ ์ด๋‹ˆ์…”ํ‹ฐ๋ธŒ๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ฑ„์šฉ๋˜์—ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ํ˜„์žฌ ์ด ์•ฝ 300๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์— ๋‹ฌํ•˜๋Š” 5๋…„๊ฐ„ ๋ณด์žฅ๋œ ์ž๊ธˆ์„ ์ง€์›๋ฐ›๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

She has moved into an apartment beside the Baltic Sea in Helsinki and is taking Finnish language classes offered by the university.

๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ํ—ฌ์‹ฑํ‚ค์˜ ๋ฐœํŠธํ•ด ์˜† ์•„ํŒŒํŠธ๋กœ ์ด์‚ฌํ–ˆ๊ณ  ๋Œ€ํ•™์—์„œ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜๋Š” ํ•€๋ž€๋“œ์–ด ์ˆ˜์—…์„ ์ˆ˜๊ฐ•ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

Even international researchers who once crossed the ocean to the United States, drawn by its reputation as a world leader in science, are now seeking alternative bases from which to conduct their work.

๊ณผํ•™๊ณ„์˜ ์„ธ๊ณ„์  ์„ ๋„๊ตญ์ด๋ผ๋Š” ๋ช…์„ฑ์— ์ด๋Œ๋ ค ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฑด๋„ˆ์™”๋˜ ๊ตญ์ œ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์ž๋“ค์กฐ์ฐจ ์ด์ œ๋Š” ์ž์‹ ์˜ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ์ˆ˜ํ–‰ํ•  ๋Œ€์•ˆ์  ๊ฑฐ์ ์„ ๋ชจ์ƒ‰ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

James Letts and Maria Maldonado, a married pair of biologists, left their positions at the University of California, Davis, upon being recruited by Monash University in Australia.

๋ถ€๋ถ€ ์ƒ๋ฌผํ•™์ž์ธ ์ œ์ž„์Šค ๋ ˆ์ธ ์™€ ๋งˆ๋ฆฌ์•„ ๋ง๋„๋‚˜๋„๋Š” ํ˜ธ์ฃผ ๋ชจ๋‚˜์‹œ ๋Œ€ํ•™(Monash University)์— ์ฑ„์šฉ๋จ์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ์บ˜๋ฆฌํฌ๋‹ˆ์•„ ๋Œ€ํ•™ ๋ฐ์ด๋น„์Šค ์บ ํผ์Šค์—์„œ์˜ ์ง์ฑ…์„ ๋– ๋‚ฌ๋‹ค.

Letts is Canadian, while Maldonado hails from Argentina.

๋ ˆ์ธ ๋Š” ์บ๋‚˜๋‹ค ์ถœ์‹ ์ด๋ฉฐ ๋ง๋„๋‚˜๋„๋Š” ์•„๋ฅดํ—จํ‹ฐ๋‚˜ ์ถœ์‹ ์ด๋‹ค.

Both earned their doctorates in New York and have been engaged in scientific research in the United States for more than a decade.

๋‘ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ ๋ชจ๋‘ ๋‰ด์š•์—์„œ ๋ฐ•์‚ฌ ํ•™์œ„๋ฅผ ์ทจ๋“ํ•˜์˜€๊ณ  ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์—์„œ 10๋…„ ๋„˜๊ฒŒ ๊ณผํ•™ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์— ์ข…์‚ฌํ•ด ์™”๋‹ค.

The uncertainty surrounding the grantsโ€”having had to lay off staff scientists while waiting out a funding freezeโ€”drove them to make a momentous decision.

๋ณด์กฐ๊ธˆ๊ณผ ๊ด€๋ จ๋œ ๋ถˆํ™•์‹ค์„ฑ, ์ฆ‰ ์ž๊ธˆ์ด ๋ฉˆ์ถ˜ ์ƒํƒœ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋‹ค๋ฆฌ๋ฉด์„œ ์ง์› ๊ณผํ•™์ž๋ฅผ ํ•ด๊ณ ํ•ด์•ผ ํ–ˆ๋˜ ์ผ์ด ๊ทธ๋“ค๋กœ ํ•˜์—ฌ๊ธˆ ํฐ ๊ฒฐ์‹ฌ์„ ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋งŒ๋“ค์—ˆ๋‹ค.

Retz said, "All I want is to do excellent science and make discoveries, but I long for my work to carry meaning.

๋ ˆ์ธ ๋Š” "๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ๋ฐ”๋ผ๋Š” ๋ฐ”๋Š” ์˜ค๋กœ์ง€ ํƒ์›”ํ•œ ๊ณผํ•™์„ ์ˆ˜ํ–‰ํ•˜๊ณ  ๋ฐœ๊ฒฌ์„ ์ด๋ฃจ์–ด๋‚ด๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ผ ๋ฟ์ด์ง€๋งŒ, ๋‚ด ์ž‘์—…์ด ์˜๋ฏธ๋ฅผ ์ง€๋‹ˆ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๊ฐˆ๋งํ•œ๋‹ค.

Yet such an opportunity seemed exceedingly unlikely in the United States," he said.

๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ๋ฐ ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๊ธฐํšŒ๋Š” ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์—์„œ๋Š” ๊ทนํžˆ ํฌ๋ฐ•ํ•ด ๋ณด์˜€๋‹ค"๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Immigrants account for 40% of Nobel laureates in the American sciences, and Omar Yaghi, the 2025 Nobel laureate in chemistry, is leaving his post at UC Berkeley this year to head an artificial intelligence research institute at Tsinghua University in China.

๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๊ณผํ•™ ๋ถ„์•ผ ๋…ธ๋ฒจ์ƒ ์ˆ˜์ƒ์ž์˜ 40%๋Š” ์ด๋ฏผ์ž ์ถœ์‹ ์ด ์ฐจ์ง€ํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, 2025๋…„ ํ™”ํ•™ ๋…ธ๋ฒจ์ƒ ์ˆ˜์ƒ์ž์ธ ์˜ค๋งˆ๋ฅด ์•ผ๊ธฐ๋Š” ์˜ฌํ•ด ์บ˜๋ฆฌํฌ๋‹ˆ์•„ ๋Œ€ํ•™ ๋ฒ„ํด๋ฆฌ ์บ ํผ์Šค์—์„œ์˜ ์ง์ฑ…์„ ๋– ๋‚˜ ์ค‘๊ตญ ์นญํ™”๋Œ€ํ•™์˜ ์ธ๊ณต์ง€๋Šฅ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์†Œ๋ฅผ ์ด๋Œ๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

The United States remains a scientific powerhouse, brimming with institutions that have built robust research communities across the length and breadth of the country and that command abundant resources capable of attracting foreign scientists.

๋ฏธ๊ตญ์€ ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ๊ณผํ•™ ๊ฐ•๊ตญ์œผ๋กœ์„œ, ์ „๊ตญ ๊ฐ์ง€์— ๊ฑธ์ณ ๊ฒฌ๊ณ ํ•œ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ ๊ณต๋™์ฒด๋ฅผ ๊ตฌ์ถ•ํ•œ ๊ธฐ๊ด€๋“ค๊ณผ ์™ธ๊ตญ ๊ณผํ•™์ž๋“ค์„ ์œ ์ธํ•˜๋Š” ํ’๋ถ€ํ•œ ์ž์›์„ ๊ฐ–์ถ˜ ๊ธฐ๊ด€๋“ค๋กœ ์ถฉ๋งŒํ•ด ์žˆ๋‹ค.

Even if every European country were to throw open its doors wide, their combined capacity would hardly suffice to accommodate all American scientists.

๋ชจ๋“  ์œ ๋Ÿฝ ๊ตญ๊ฐ€๊ฐ€ ๋ฌธํ˜ธ๋ฅผ ํ™œ์ง ๊ฐœ๋ฐฉํ•˜๋”๋ผ๋„ ๋ชจ๋“  ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๊ณผํ•™์ž๋ฅผ ์ˆ˜์šฉํ•  ๋งŒํ•œ ์—ญ๋Ÿ‰์€ ์ถฉ๋ถ„์น˜ ์•Š์„ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค.

That is by no means to say that everyone is leaving; a considerable number of scientists have chosen to remain, all the while seeking out new sources of research funding or pursuing a transition into industry jobs.

๊ทธ๋ ‡๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•ด์„œ ๋ชจ๋“  ์ด๊ฐ€ ๋– ๋‚˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ๊ฒฐ์ฝ” ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ฉฐ, ์ƒ๋‹น์ˆ˜์˜ ๊ณผํ•™์ž๋“ค์€ ์ž”๋ฅ˜ํ•˜๊ธฐ๋กœ ์„ ํƒํ•œ ๊ฐ€์šด๋ฐ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์—ฐ๊ตฌ ์ž๊ธˆ์›์„ ๋ชจ์ƒ‰ํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ์‚ฐ์—…๊ณ„ ์ผ์ž๋ฆฌ๋กœ์˜ ์ „ํ™˜์„ ๋„๋ชจํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

However, the erosion of prestige and the outflow of talent may not yet have run their course.

๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ๋ช…์„ฑ์˜ ์นจ์‹๊ณผ ์ธ์žฌ ์œ ์ถœ์€ ์•„์ง ์ข…๊ฒฐ๋˜์ง€ ์•Š์•˜์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค.

According to a tracking tool released by the States United Democracy Center and the organization Grant Witness, the Trump administration has, since the start of the president's second term, cut or frozen federal grants amounting to as much as $174 billion.

์Šคํ…Œ์ด์ธ  ์œ ๋‚˜์ดํ‹ฐ๋“œ ๋ฏผ์ฃผ์ฃผ์˜ ์„ผํ„ฐ(States United Democracy Center)์™€ ๋‹จ์ฒด ๊ทธ๋žœํŠธ ์œ„ํŠธ๋‹ˆ์Šค(Grant Witness)๊ฐ€ ๊ณต๊ฐœํ•œ ์ถ”์  ๋„๊ตฌ์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅด๋ฉด, ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„ ํ–‰์ •๋ถ€๋Š” ๋Œ€ํ†ต๋ น์˜ ๋‘ ๋ฒˆ์งธ ์ž„๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ๊ฐœ์‹œ๋œ ์ด๋ž˜ ์ตœ๋Œ€ 1740์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๊ทœ๋ชจ์˜ ์—ฐ๋ฐฉ ๋ณด์กฐ๊ธˆ์„ ์‚ญ๊ฐํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ๋™๊ฒฐํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค.

Furthermore, a proposed rule from the Office of Management and Budget could grant political appointees broader control over which projects receive funding going forward.

๋‚˜์•„๊ฐ€ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ์˜ˆ์‚ฐ์ฒ˜(Office of Management and Budget)์˜ ์ œ์•ˆ๋œ ๊ทœ์น™์€ ์ •์น˜์  ์ž„๋ช…์ž๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ํ–ฅํ›„ ์–ด๋– ํ•œ ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ์— ์ž๊ธˆ์ด ์ง€์›๋ ์ง€์— ๊ด€ํ•œ ๋ณด๋‹ค ๊ด‘๋ฒ”์œ„ํ•œ ํ†ต์ œ๊ถŒ์„ ๋ถ€์—ฌํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค.

A resolution approved by Congress has postponed the final decision on this rule until December.

์˜ํšŒ๊ฐ€ ์Šน์ธํ•œ ๊ฒฐ์˜์•ˆ์€ ์ด ๊ทœ์น™์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ตœ์ข… ๊ฒฐ์ •์„ 12์›”๊นŒ์ง€ ์—ฐ๊ธฐํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค.

Scientists who have departed, along with those who remain in the United States, are voicing concern about what has been left behind.

์ดํƒˆํ•œ ๊ณผํ•™์ž๋“ค๊ณผ ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์— ์ž”๋ฅ˜ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ณผํ•™์ž๋“ค์€ ๋‚จ๊ฒจ์ง„ ๊ฒƒ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์šฐ๋ ค๋ฅผ ํ‘œํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

They say the next generation of scientists may encounter formidable obstacles amid diminished graduate programs, funding, and mentorship, and that it could take more than a decade before the American scientific system tangibly feels the repercussions.

๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ์ฐจ์„ธ๋Œ€ ๊ณผํ•™์ž๋“ค์ด ์ถ•์†Œ๋œ ๋Œ€ํ•™์› ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ, ์ž๊ธˆ, ๋ฉ˜ํ† ๋ง ์†์—์„œ ๋‚œ๊ด€์— ๋ด‰์ฐฉํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๊ณผํ•™ ์ฒด๊ณ„๊ฐ€ ๊ทธ ํŒŒ๊ธ‰ ํšจ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ์‹ค์งˆ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ฒด๊ฐํ•˜๊ธฐ๊นŒ์ง€๋Š” 10๋…„ ์ด์ƒ์ด ์†Œ์š”๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ•œ๋‹ค.

According to admissions data compiled by the Association of American Universities, major research institutions have cut the acceptance rate for doctoral program applicants for the fall of 2026 by 15 percent compared with last year.

๋ฏธ๊ตญ๋Œ€ํ•™ํ˜‘ํšŒ๊ฐ€ ์ˆ˜์ง‘ํ•œ ์ž…ํ•™ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅด๋ฉด, ์ฃผ์š” ์—ฐ๊ตฌ ๊ธฐ๊ด€๋“ค์€ ์ง€๋‚œํ•ด ๋Œ€๋น„ 2026๋…„ ๊ฐ€์„ ๋ฐ•์‚ฌ ๊ณผ์ • ์ง€์›์ž ํ•ฉ๊ฒฉ๋ฅ ์„ 15% ๊ฐ์ถ•ํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค.

One of the affected students was a mentee of Smith's.

์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฐ›์€ ํ•™์ƒ ๊ฐ€์šด๋ฐ ํ•œ ๋ช…์€ ์Šค๋ฏธ์Šค์˜ ๋ฉ˜ํ‹ฐ์˜€๋‹ค.

He said, "What advice could I possibly offer that young man, if not to suggest that he look into Canada next year?"

๊ทธ ์ Š์€์ด์—๊ฒŒ ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ๊ฑด๋„ฌ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์กฐ์–ธ์ด๋ž€, ๋‚ด๋…„์— ์บ๋‚˜๋‹ค๋ฅผ ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ์ฐพ์•„๋ณด๋ผ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ ์•„๋‹ˆ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๊นŒ"๋ผ๊ณ  ๊ทธ๋Š” ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

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US military archbishop bans Catholic soldiers from participating in firing squads

US military archbishop bans Catholic soldiers from participating in firing squads

๋ฏธ๊ตฐ ๋Œ€์ฃผ๊ต, ๊ฐ€ํ†จ๋ฆญ ๊ตฐ์ธ๋“ค์˜ ์ด์‚ดํ˜• ์ง‘ํ–‰ ์ฐธ์—ฌ๋ฅผ ๊ธˆ์ง€ํ•˜๋‹ค

C2Oct 12
Hochul, New York Governor, Urges Investigation into Cornell University's Response to 2024 Alleged Mass Sexual Assault

Hochul, New York Governor, Urges Investigation into Cornell University's Response to 2024 Alleged Mass Sexual Assault

ํ˜ธ์ปฌ ๋‰ด์š• ์ฃผ์ง€์‚ฌ, ์ฝ”๋„ฌ๋Œ€ 2024๋…„ ์ง‘๋‹จ ์„ฑํญํ–‰ ํ˜์˜ ๋Œ€์‘ ์กฐ์‚ฌ ์ด‰๊ตฌ

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Hurricane Rachel, which formed in the Pacific but poses no threat to land, forecasters confirm

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C2Sep 30