PhD student Quinn Beato is featured in a New York Times story by reporter Katrina Miller on how cuts to federal science funding are affecting young scientists.
Asked what motivated the piece and how the opportunity came about, Quinn said:
I went through moments of severe anxiety and frustration when the government stopped funding federal grants at the university in the first year of my PhD. These feelings motivated me to get involved with a science policy group on campus, and I wrote an op-ed for my hometown newspaper, The Canyon Courier, asking people in my hometown to consider how ongoing or proposed cuts to science funding would hurt future generations of scientists. A year later, reporter Katrina Miller from the New York Times reached out to me, asking about how much I still resonated with the claims I made in my op-ed, and any other challenges I personally faced navigating my own career prospects.
You can read the full story in The New York Times.