When a laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley wins a grant from the National Institutes of Health, there is a research budget that goes to the principal scientist to cover the direct costs of the study. Then there is an additional percentage that goes to UC Berkeley to pay for indirect costs like the lab, microscopes, graduate assistants and even light bulbs. 

The money that goes to the university to cover indirect costs is now the target of cuts from the Trump Administration.

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Ruth Dusseault is an investigative reporter and multimedia journalist focused on environment and energy. Her position is supported by the California local news fellowship, a statewide initiative spearheaded by UC Berkeley aimed at supporting local news platforms. While a student at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism (c’23), Ruth developed stories about the social and environmental circumstances of contaminated watersheds around the Great Lakes, Mississippi River and Florida’s Lake Okeechobee. Her thesis explored rights of nature laws in small rural communities. She is a former assistant professor and artist in residence at Georgia Tech’s School of Architecture, and uses photography, film and digital storytelling to report on the engineered systems that undergird modern life.