Federal grants cut by Trump across University of Tennessee: A full list, valued at $38.69M

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26-05-2025

Research into vaccines, school shootings, Alzheimer's and mental health have been hobbled by wide-ranging cuts at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville ordered by President Donald Trump.
In addition to these cuts, the University of Tennessee System reported an additional 17 grants have been canceled across its campuses for a total of 45. The UT System provided Knox News with a list of those grants, in addition to 16 grants that are active or pending.
Prior to most of the cuts, the universities awarded grants had already started spending money on their various federally funded research projects. The lost value across the 45 canceled grants (originally valued at $54.11 million) is $38.69 million.
Each grant awarded to UT System schools has one of three funding uses:
Institutional (INST): "Grants awarded to higher education institutions to support service of students and improvement of educational outcomes," according to the UT System.
Research & Development (R&D): "Grants awarded to support research and development activities to advance scientific knowledge, develop new technologies, or address specific societal needs," according to the UT System.
Student Financial Aid (SFA): "Grants providing financial aid for students," according to the UT System.
In some cases, a state institution such as the Tennessee Historical Commission received a federal grant and subcontracted UT to help on the project.
The grants also are for projects regarding marginalized communities including Black people, folks in the LGBTQ+ community and residents of Appalachia.
The UT System provided documents in May listing the number of grants across the system cut by the Trump administration. The list included only how many grants UT campuses had and which federal agency provided them. On May 21, the UT System provided a full list of active, pending and terminated grants across the system with figures for the remaining lost values (or the remaining values for active and pending grants) updated as of March 1.
UT's flagship Knoxville campus has 35 grants on the provided list, including these 28 that have been terminated:
Grant name
Total Grant Value
Lost Grant Value
Rural Appalachian Mental Health Partnership(Education Department / R&D)
$2,478,700
$988,397
Alcohol, minority stress, and intimate partner violence: Temporal and prospective associations in sexual minority young adults(National Institutes of Health / R&D)
$1,362,669
$103,730
Inclusive Education Teacher Training(USAID / OTHER)
$684,207
$24,906
CAREER: Black and Latinx Parents Leading Reform and Advancing Racial Justice in Elementary Mathematics(National Science Fund / R&D)
$579,763
$115,866
STEM Education and Apprenticeship Liaison (SEAL) for Navy(Defense Department / OTHER)
$564,397
$113,448
Building Community and Research Engagement among Sexual and Gender Minority Older Adults at Risk for Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias (National Institutes of Health / R&D)
$540,038
$34,578
Epidemiology & Laboratory Capacity State Colleges and Universities(National Institutes of Health / INST)
$500,000
$163,874
The Impact of Minority Stress on Alcohol-Related Sexual Assault among Sexual Minority College Students: An intersectional, mixed-methodological study(National Institutes of Health / R&D)
$471,105
$453,831
Exploring User-Informed Approaches to Enhancing Library Metadata for the LGBTQ+ Community (Institute of Museum and Library Services / R&D)
$393,498
$344,869
COVID-19 Prevention and Vaccine Promotion(National Institutes of Health / R&D)
$332,009
$119,711
Collaborative Research: The Angry Crowd Bias: Social, Cognitive, and Perceptual Mechanisms(National Science Fund / R&D)
$272,286
$42,300
Collaborative Research: Inclusive Science is Better Science: The Increasing Diversity in Evolutionary Anthropological Sciences (IDEAS) Program(National Science Fund / R&D)
$197,978
$120,297
STEM Graduate Pathways for Marginalized Groups: A Critical Meta-Analysis of Preparation, Enrollment, and Completion Research(National Science Fund / R&D)
$190,484
$67,190
SCC-PG: Equitable and Ubiquitous Converged Data & Transportation Services for Underserved Communities (National Science Fund / R&D)
$150,000
$2
Measures for Sexual and Gender Minority Caregivers of People with ADRD(National Institutes of Health / R&D)
$142,284
$29,438
End-to-End Graph-Agnostic Real-time Evacuation Routing to protect Soft Targets during Active-Shooter Scenarios (Homeland Security / R&D)
$129,999
$73,757
COVID Disparities Project - Year 3(North Dakota Health Department / R&D)
$123,775
$70,339
Transfer Advocacy Groups (TAG): Transforming Culture to Support Transfer Students of Color in Undergraduate Physics(National Science Fund / R&D)
$106,072
$44,728
EXCITE: Extension Collaborative on Immunization, Teaching & Engagement(Agriculture Department / R&D)
$100,000
$71,460
Planning: Southeast Center for Just, Resilient, and Sustainable Ecosystems(National Science Fund / R&D)
$100,000
$33,121
The Alliance of Persons with Disabilities (PWD) and Intersectionality for Inclusion, Networking, and Transition Opportunities in STEM(National Science Fund / R&D)
$97,718
$26,398
EAGER: Combatting disinformation and racial bias: A deep-learning-assisted investigation of temporal dynamics of disinformation(National Science Fund / R&D)
$70,295
$2,194
U.S.-Japan Exchange Program for Green Growth Collaboration through Clean Energy Technologies (State Department / OTHER)
$70,000
$6,466
Disinformation in the Illustrated Observer, 1926-1945(National Endowment for the Humanities / R&D)
$60,000
$20,000
Examining Proximal Associations Between Minority Stress, PTSD Symptoms, and Alcohol Use among Bi+ College Students with Trauma Histories(National Institutes of Health / R&D)
$48,974
$32,901
Comprehensive Modeling of Cultural Transformations in Response to Shocks and Hazards Associated with Climate(Defense Department / R&D)
$48,974
$10,680
The Mountains Seemed Empty, but I Knew They Weren't Elevating Appalachian Voices in Library Collections(Institute of Museum and Library Services / R&D)
$27,877
$27,877
Black Women of Print Exhibition & Programming(Humanities TN / R&D)
$8,905
$7,688
Seven federal grants are still active or pending at UT:
Grant Name(Source / Use)
Total Grant Value(Remaining)
Status
Integrated Three-level GaN Inverter and PMsyn RM Motor for Electric Passenger Vehicles and Medium/heavy duty Trucks(Energy Department / R&D)
$1,530,686($1,041,889)
Active
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Measurement Investigation Science Mission Phase(NASA / R&D)
$1,475,557($26,312)
Active
Global Sports Mentoring Program(State Department / OTHER)
$1,140,000($1,140,000)
Pending
Development of Low-Density Fe-Mn-Al Multi-PrincipalElement Alloys for Lightweighting Automobile StructuralComponents(Energy Department / R&D)
$334,280($259,410)
Active
Hosting the Southeast Climate Adaptation Science Center(Interior Department / R&D)
$197,195($160,813)
Active
The Papers of Andrew Jackson(National Archives / R&D)
$125,000($48,862)
Pending
The Papers of Andrew Jackson(TN Historical Commission / R&D)
$3,190($3,190)
Pending
Grant Name (Source / Use)
Total Grant Value
Lost Grant Value
Climate Smart Grasslands - the Root of Agricultural CarbonMarkets(Agriculture Department / R&D)
$30,000,000
$26,813,141
Farmer-to-Farmer Program Southeast Asia(USAID / R&D)
$4,999,943
$4,130,835
Tennessee Extension Vaccine Education & Outreach Project(Centers for Disease Control / R&D)
$1,415,187
$12,648
Exploring Opportunities for Tennessee Department ofAgriculture to Prepare to Implement FDA Rule: Standardsfor the Growing, Harvesting, Packing, & Holding of Producefor Human Consumption(Food and Drug Administration / R&D)
$552,359
$108,292
Providing an Overview of Food Safety Standards andRegulations Through A Classroom and Experiential LearningProgram for Fellows from Multiple Agricultural Sectors(Agriculture Department / R&D)
$137,498
$6,714
FlorestaDB: mobile and web apps for forest samplecollection(Agriculture Department / R&D)
$53,075
$34,508
2025 Tennessee Pesticide Safety Education Program(Environmental Protection Agency / OTHER)
$31,225
$31,225
STEM Education and Apprenticeship Liaison (SEAL) for Navy(Defense Department / OTHER)
$10,573
$8,314
The UT Institute of Agriculture has five grants active or pending:
Grant name (Source / Use)
Total Grant Value(Remaining)
Grant Status
PClimate Smart Fiber Hemp: A Versatile Thread Connectingthe Nation's Underserved Farmers, Climate ChangeMitigation and Novel Market Opportunities(Agriculture Department / R&D)
$1,303,307($1,146,041)
Active
From Learning to Leading: Cultivating the Next Generationof Diverse Food and Agriculture Professionals(Agriculture Department / OTHER)
$310,685($237,431)
Active
Excellence in Research: Mechanistic Modelling andValidation Approaches to Decontaminate (+) ssRNA virusesusing Ultraviolet Technologies(National Science Fund / R&D)
$100,000($89,891)
Active
Examining Visitor Spatial and Temporal Distribution at FortSumter National Historic Site(Interior Department / R&D)
$92,594($23,006)
Active
2024-2029 Southern Appalachian Mountains CESUCooperative and Joint Venture Agreement(Interior Department / R&D)
No amount given
Pending
Grant Name (Source / Use)
Total Grant Value(Remaining)
Lost Grant Value
UTC: National Initiative to Address COVID-19 Health DisparitiesAmong Populations at High-Risk and Underserved,Including Racial and Ethnic Minority Populations and RuralCommunities(National Institutes of Health / R&D)
$2,489,989
$990,259
UTHSC: Alzheimer's Disease and Alzheimer's Disease RelatedDementias in Prediabetes and Type 2 Diabetes: TheDiabetes Prevention Program Outcomes Study AD/ADRDProject(National Institutes of Health / R&D)
$1,515,527
$1,336,956
UTHSC: Identifying multilevel facilitators of care outcomes amongPositive Deviants to design an intervention for Black sexualminority men living with HIV(National Institutes of Health / R&D)
$1,226,945
$1,226,945
UTIPS: COPS Office Cooperative Agreement 15JCOPS-23-GK-02(Justice Department / R&D)
$698,802
$419,107
UTC: Epidemiology and Laboratory Capacity for Prevention andControl of Emerging Infectious Diseases(National Institutes of Health / INST)
$500,000
$65,550
UTC: Mathematical Modeling and Scientific Computing forInfectious Disease Research(National Institutes of Health / R&D)
$331,246
$199,600
UTC: Implementing a Humanities-Informed EnvironmentalStudies Major at the University of Tennessee atChattanooga(National Endowment for the Humanities / R&D)
$149,957
$128,157
UTHSC: Study to understand how medical implantation alters localand/or systemic immune response relative to implantedmetal-alloy devices(Food and Drug Administration / R&D)
$149,859
$28,200
UTHSC: Tennessee Health Disparities Initiative(Centers for Disease Control / R&D)
Not listed
Not listed
Other UT System campuses have four active or pending federal grants:
Grant Name (Source / Use)
Total Grant Value (Remaining)
Status
UTC: First principles multiphase modeling of mesoscale gastransport in porous reactive systems(Energy Department / R&D)
$562,497($237,650)
Active
UTC: CONTRACT and PROPOSAL: 2020 SCALE Consortium -Radiation-Hard Microelectronics Workforce DevelopmentConsortium(National Institutes for Health / R&D)
$499,071(Not listed)
Active
UTHSC: EXCITE: Extension Collaborative on Immunization, Teaching& Engagement(Agriculture Department / R&D)
$100,000($82,000)
Pending
UTM: Agricultural Communications Capacity-Building throughCurriculum Development, Collaboration, and ArtificialIntelligence(Agriculture Department / INST)
$75,000($62,245)
Pending
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This article originally appeared on Knoxville News Sentinel: List of $38.69M in grants cut by Trump across University of Tennessee