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Through the McClintock Letters, my fellow grad students and I are urging Americans to speak out against cuts in research funding<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cChime In\u201d comprises brief first-person essays by Cornellians. Do you have a topic in mind? Email us at cornellians@cornell.edu<\/a>! <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Hannah Frank<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nearly a decade into my career in agricultural research, I\u2019ve only just started to see myself as a scientist. I have never fit into the image I had of what a scientist is: an introvert in a white coat who lives at a lab bench with a pipette in their hand. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I wanted to work with people\u2014building relationships around food and agriculture to collectively address the threat of climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My undergraduate studies at NC State were interdisciplinary in food systems, global health, and political science.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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But I left wanting to learn more about soil biology\u2014and that meant graduate school. I have tried hard to go an inch wide and a mile deep, but the systems-level foundation to my education has continuously challenged me to think more broadly the deeper I go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, in a moment when the American scientific enterprise is existentially threatened, my broadened definition of a scientist and my affinity for building connections seem to be my greatest resources to reach outside academia and fight for research funding that benefits us all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In a moment when the American scientific enterprise is existentially threatened, my broadened definition of a scientist and my affinity for building connections seem to be my greatest resources.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Fortunately, I am among peers who value this humanity as highly as our scientific integrity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am now three years into my PhD program in horticulture at Cornell. I study beneficial soil fungi in the vineyards here in the Finger Lakes, and could not have ended up in a more perfect position. I am entering my final year (or so) of my program and thinking about what\u2019s next.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve been in this position before, but this time is different.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Hannah
The author doing fieldwork in a vineyard as part of her doctoral studies.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The Hatch Act funding<\/a> for agricultural experiment stations, a critical supporter for many researchers and the primary funder of my current work, has been eliminated from the budget for the 2026 fiscal year. Two of my friends and fellow plant science graduate students have already lost their advisors to USDA layoffs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Universities are implementing hiring freezes, there is less money for postdocs, and even friends in the private sector are pessimistic. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The federal funding cuts to research are gutting our land-grant institutions, stripping resources from farmers, creating even more precarity for the future, and threatening the livelihoods of the many people who depend on these institutions for employment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The federal funding cuts to research are gutting our land-grant institutions, stripping resources from farmers, and creating even more precarity for the future.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

In response to these attacks, many of us have been hoping for our leaders to stand up in defense of the pivotal role the scientific enterprise plays in each of our daily lives\u2014from what we eat to how we plan around the weather\u2014but have also known it would largely be on us to stand up for our work. So, we have been organizing and brainstorming, finding ways to act.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Out of this came the McClintock Letters<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Barbara McClintock 1923, PhD 1927, is one of Cornell\u2019s most impactful alumni\u2014the first woman to win an unshared Nobel Prize in the category of physiology or medicine. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Barbara
Smithsonian Institution Archives<\/figcaption>
McClintock at the microscope.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Through her work on corn genetics, she is most famous for discovering that some genes, known as transposons, \u201cjump\u201d to different places in DNA. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The discovery seemed so preposterous at the time that she eventually stopped pushing it\u2014but never gave up on its validity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Many of us have been hoping for our leaders to stand up in defense of the pivotal role the scientific enterprise plays in each of our daily lives\u2014but have also known it would largely be on us to stand up for our work.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Today, the advancements she made by looking at corn kernel colors have applications for groundbreaking plant biology innovations and life-saving gene therapy treatments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In honor of Dr. McClintock, the student-run Cornell Advancing Science and Policy Club<\/a>\u2014as well as a collective of more than 20 science policy graduate groups around the country\u2014launched an initiative to explain our federally funded work and why it matters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The project’s logo honors its namesake, and her ground-breaking work on the genetics of corn.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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Inspired by McClintock\u2019s \u201cbasic\u201d research that has had profound applications, we signed up over 600 people to write op-eds in their hometown newspapers about what they study and why it\u2019s important. We had hundreds of people attend writing workshops, and so far more than 100 pieces<\/a> have been published.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m excited to report that working on this initiative has also brought about a new organization, the Scientist Network for Advancing Policy<\/a> (SNAP) coalition, comprising graduate students across the country who have been active in planning the McClintock Letters project.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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We are watching our future prospects grow grimmer and fearing for the well-being of the communities that raised us. We are also all very aware of the truth that those in power will not be the ones to help us. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So we are trying to find time to step away from the lab bench, as we come into our identities as scientists, to reconnect with the places that shaped our earliest selves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The letters ask our hometown community members to listen and support the work we do, because we know that the changes we\u2019re seeing will hurt all of us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Hannah
Frank (second from left) with fellow grad students at an op-ed writing workshop.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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We expect there will be pushback.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But having had the opportunity to get to know my peers in this next generation of America\u2019s scientists, I am confident that, like Barbara McClintock, we will all hold fast to these truths\u2014until others come around and join us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hannah Frank<\/strong> grew up in Kennett Square, PA\u2014the mushroom capital of the world. She has worked for the USDA in North Carolina and New York, and now loves working with the Finger Lakes wine grape growing community. She is a proud member of the Cornell Advancing Science Policy Club and the Scientist Network for Advancing Policy, and a volunteer at the Paleontological Research Institution.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

(All images provided, unless otherwise indicated.)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Published June 26, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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