The annual Cornell Ph.D. Student Advocacy Day took on extra significance this year as 16 doctoral students traveled from the Ithaca campus and Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City to Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. on April 9 to meet with Congress members and their staff. 

Students emphasized the importance of federal funding in enabling access to graduate education and advancement of critical research in the context of ongoing cuts to federal grant funding from agencies such as the National Institutes of Health and the Department of Energy. Among others, students met with Rep. Melanie Stansbury, M.S. ’07, representative for New Mexico’s 1st District, and Rep. Josh Riley, representative for New York’s 19th District.

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