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NIH dismantles training pipeline for Deaf researchers
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Michelle Koplitz looks back on her master's program with fondness, but being the only Deaf researcher in a group of hearing colleagues was difficult. "I felt very alone and isolated," she recalls. Koplitz knew that, for a Ph.D., she would need community-something she found in a group of programs known collectively as the Deaf Scientists Pipeline. This initiative-a collaboration between the University of Rochester (UR)/University of Rochester Medical Center and the Rochester Institute of Technology's National Technical Institute for the Deaf-provides scholarships, mentorship programs, and other support for Deaf students from high school all the way through postdoctoral training. It's the only pipeline of its kind in the world. But in early April, Koplitz got the news she'd been dreading: Four out of five National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants supporting the pipeline had been terminated, and the fifth was in danger of being cut as well. Collectively, the programs estimate they will lose about $3.6 million in future funding that was committed in the most recent award and renewal cycles-a drop in the bucket compared with the total NIH budget, but essential to sustain the pipeline, which has supported dozens of students and researchers at the Rochester universi- ties over the past 12 years. "This is a real step back," Koplitz says. "I'm afraid that we're going to lose the little bit of progress that we've made."
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