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Claire Shipman: “It's not just money for Columbia. I mean, this is about…”

Featuring: Claire Shipman, Acting President of Columbia University | New York

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Claire Shipman Discusses Columbia University's Federal Funding Agreement and Its Implications

Published | Video Starts at 01:25

And that's, you know, there's many headlines about $400 million. This is really access to billions, was. A lot more than that, billions of. Dollars in future funding. And It's not just money for Columbia. I mean, this is about science. It's about cancer. Cutting edge, boundary breaking science that actually benefits the country and humanity. So that was essential. How existential was the threat becoming when you talk about, I mean, I saw over like $1.3 billion that the school was not losing. (01:25–01:30)

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Asserts that the funding is intended for scientific research, including cancer research.

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