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Jennifer Mnookin: “Federal funding is our single largest component of our…”

Featuring: Jennifer Mnookin, Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin–Madison

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Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin on 2025 headwinds for UW-Madison | Here & Now

Published | Video Starts at 00:59

Well, you're right, it's a challenging time in higher education across the entire sector right now, including for us. I think the biggest challenge is around questions around federal funding, especially for research and also more generally. Federal funding is our single largest component of our budget. And we're really proud to be an extraordinary research flagship. We're doing research on so many different kinds of topics, from cancer research to incredible studies about Alzheimer's to public policy engagements and so much else. (00:59–01:03)

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