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<blockquote type="cite">On Feb 6, 2025, at 11:14, Chorover, Jon - (chorover) <chorover@arizona.edu> wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria Math",serif;color:#0F4761">ALVSCE Colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria Math",serif;color:#0F4761"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria Math",serif;color:#0F4761">This email is to draw your attention to the latest update on the
<a href="https://research.arizona.edu/administration/federal-funding-updates?j=1713153&sfmc_sub=35993279&l=1205_HTML&u=38967214&mid=514008426&jb=1">
RII Federal Funding Updates</a> webpage. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria Math",serif;color:#0F4761">Specifically, a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) out of NY state with nationwide impacts has placed, at minimum, a delay on implementation of the President’s
Executive Orders pertaining to research funding. Specifically, “<i>updated guidance is to continue work on your federal awards unless you have a
<b>project specific</b> stop work order, suspension or termination from your federal award or prime sponsor</i>”.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria Math",serif;color:#0F4761">Please remember that if you receive such a “pause work” directive from your sponsor, forward it to me, your unit head, your unit lead business manager, and
<a href="mailto:sponsor@arizona.edu">sponsor@arizona.edu</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria Math",serif;color:#0F4761">If you have any uncertainties about the status of your directives at this time (e.g., you received a project specific directive to pause work prior to the present
implementation of the TRO), please be in communication with your program officer for their guidance as to whether the directive still applies under the TRO.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria Math",serif;color:#0F4761">The back and forth on these orders has created confusion, and the impact on your programs are well recognized. For this reason, I will continue to maintain regular
email communications at times when guidance changes, such as at this time. <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria Math",serif;color:#0F4761">Please feel free to reach out to me with any questions or concerns.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria Math",serif;color:#0F4761">Kind regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria Math",serif;color:#0F4761">Jon<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#0F4761">Jon Chorover<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#0F4761">Interim Associate Vice President/Associate Dean for Research<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#0F4761">Professor, Department of Environmental Science<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#0F4761">Division of Agriculture, Life & Veterinary Sciences, & Cooperative Extension (ALVSCE)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#0F4761">College of Agriculture, Life & Environmental Sciences (CALES)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#0F4761">University of Arizona<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#0F4761">Tucson, AZ 85721<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#0F4761">Phone: (520) 626-5635<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#0F4761">Email: <a href="mailto:chorover@arizona.edu"><span style="color:#0F4761">chorover@arizona.edu</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#0F4761">I am on ancestral lands of the
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<span style="background:white">Pascua Yaqui</span>.</span></i><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0F4761"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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