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Kelsea Richardson

Kelsea Richardson

PhD candidate in Chemical Engineering at UC Santa Barbara studying polyurethane chemical recycling

Jul 28, 2026

3:51
How about you, Kelsea?
3:52
Yes, so very similarly, my program is, is really great at making sure that people have funding to do the research that they're here to do.
3:59
But with all of these changes and all of these federal funding cuts, we're definitely feeling the effects of those.
4:04
And so there's some more concrete effects, the number of NSF GRFPs, which is one of the main fellowships that graduate students get, has been reduced at my university and kind of countrywide.
4:14
And then there's, you know, kind of the feeling side of it, the less concrete.
4:18
People are feeling the instability.
4:19
They're feeling the fear that we've talked about.

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21:28
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