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Since virtually the first day of the second Trump administration, Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency have been dismantling federal agencies and claiming as savings the billions of ...

Peter Goldsmith (left) visits Pan-African Soybean Trials in Malawi. The Trump administration cut off nearly all funding for food and agricultural research at universities across the country as part of ...

The Soybean Innovation Lab at the University of Champaign-Urbana in Illinois received its official notice of termination March 11 after a review of its work by Elon Musk’s Department of Government ...

President Donald Trump’s Jan. 26 funding freeze directly impacted the University’s Soybean Innovation Lab, which was forced to close, according to Peter Goldsmith, director of the SIL and professor in ...

Peter Goldsmith (left) and Dennis Banda in Malawi at a site participating in the Soybean Innovation Lab’s Pan African Soybean Trials. SIL was abruptly left with no funding after USAID shut down; now, ...

A University of Illinois soybean research lab slated to close as a result of President Donald Trump’s sweeping cuts to foreign assistance has received an anonymous donation of $1 million that will ...