Cambridge university among institutions seeing chance to hire talent unsettled by US spending cuts
A student from the Higher School of Art and Design (ESAD) draws during a brain operation on an awake patient with a brain tumor, as part of a Franco-German interdisciplinary program in neurosurgery at the Reims University Hospital on 5 March.© Photo credit: AFP
Michael Peel, Peter Foster and Gloria Li
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Science institutions in Europe and beyond are racing to hire researchers from the US looking to flee the Donald Trump administration’s crackdown on research agencies.
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ARCHIV - 14.03.2025, ---: Die Kombo aus Archivbildern zeigt US-Präsident Donald Trump (l) im Oval Office des Weißen Hauses am 07.03.2025 und den russischen Präsidenten Wladimir Putin während eines Technologieforums in Moskau am 21.02.2025. (zu dpa: «Trump bitte Putin um Milde für ukrainische Soldaten») Foto: Pavel Bednyakov/AP/Pool via AP/dpa +++ dpa-Bildfunk +++Russian war of aggression in UkraineTrump to speak with Putin on Tuesday in Ukraine ceasefire pushTrump administration has been pushing for ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine amid flurry of engagement between Washington and Moscow, three years after Russia’s invasion
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