What Graduate Students Should Know About the Sequester - DELECE SMITH-BARROW, US News

The number of students admitted for graduate school will decrease because of the sequester. Research universities and graduate assistants across the nation are starting to feel the sequester's impact. The across-the-board, $85 billion in discretionary spending cuts began just one month ago. "My NIH grant has already been affected. Our budget has been altered because of it," says Thomas Brown, an associate professor at Wright State University in Ohio. Brown is using a five-year grant from the National Institutes of Health to research pregnancy-associated disorders, such as preeclampsia, and figure out how to treat them. This year he has seven people working with him. Because of the sequester, his budget has shrunk. "We've already done this math and we're going to have to go from seven to five. At least for the foreseeable next six months or so," he says. http://www.usnews.com/education/best-graduate-schools/articles/2013/04/01/what-graduate-students-should-know-about-the-sequester