Pandemic-impacted Ph.D. students face funding cliff

Image:  Rutgers University is telling graduate students whose research was delayed by COVID-19 that there is no more money to extend their funding packages. Using federal emergency funds, the university offered one round of one-year funding extensions earlier in the pandemic to students who had already advanced to Ph.D. candidacy. But because the pandemic wasn’t over in a year, some who received that extension require additional time now to finish their dissertations due to factors...