Overview

• The Safe Place for Science program will bring 31 senior U.S. researchers to AMU this fall, covering environmental science, humanities, life sciences, epidemiology, immunology and NASA astrophysics.
• By the March 31 deadline, AMU received 300 formal applications and logged 600 expressions of interest from American scientists displaced by U.S. research restrictions.
• Eric Berton highlighted that some researchers have faced data deletions and demands to justify grants after federal funding cuts under President Trump.
• Berton and former president François Hollande are championing a “scientific refugee” status to secure legal protections for scholars targeted for their work.
• AMU already hosts 25 displaced researchers from Iran, Lebanon, Ukraine and Palestine as part of its broader academic freedom initiatives.