The Detroit News: U-M President Mary Sue Coleman urges lawmakers to end sequestration cuts

U-M estimated last month that the cuts, the result of the failure of Congress and the Obama administration to reach a broader deal to cut the federal deficit, could cost U-M $40 million in research funding.

Coleman was in Washington to speak at an alumni breakfast and while there held meetings with lawmakers, according to the report.

U-M head of research Stephen Forrest last month warned regents about the impact of the cuts on research.

"It is a meat cleaver-approach to solving budget problems,” he said. "We don't know what the future's going to look like. It's certainly not going to be very robust."

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