“The false narratives either lame or funny,” Ramsey

, thousands of scientists in the U.S. lost their jobs or grants — and governments and universities around the worldIn this photo provided by the University Health Network, Ontario Premier Doug Ford, center, stands with other government and UHN officials in custom hockey jerseys during the announcement of the “Canada Leads” program in Toronto on Monday, April 7, 2025. (Jacob Cote/UHN via AP)

In this photo provided by the University Health Network, Ontario Premier Doug Ford, center, stands with other government and UHN officials in custom hockey jerseys during the announcement of the “Canada Leads” program in Toronto on Monday, April 7, 2025. (Jacob Cote/UHN via AP)The “Canada Leads” program, launched in April, hopes to foster the next generation of innovators by bringing early-career biomedical researchers north of the border.Aix-Marseille University in France started the “Safe Place for Science” program in March — pledging to “welcome” U.S.-based scientists who “may feel threatened or hindered in their research.”

Australia’s “Global Talent Attraction Program,” announced in April, promises competitive salaries and relocation packages.“In response to what is happening in the U.S.,” said Anna-Maria Arabia, head of the Australian Academy of Sciences, “we see an unparalleled opportunity to attract some of the smartest minds here.”

Since World War II, the U.S. has

in scientific research conducted at independent universities and federal agencies. That funding helped the U.S. to become the world’s leading scientific power — and has led to the invention of cell phones and the internet as well as new ways to treat cancer, heart disease and strokes, noted Holden Thorp, editor-in-chief of the journal Science.“My platform is career focused,” says Gary Edwin Robinson. “So, as I am working with my students, it’s always, ‘How is theater going to help develop you in whatever area you’re going into?’”

Robinson, head of the Theatre Arts Program at Boys and Girls High School in Brooklyn, will receive the 2025 Excellence in Theatre Education Award on June 8 at the Tony Awards in New York City.“I love what I do, and I get up and I go to work every morning and I go to the theater. It’s a black box theater and the theater just happens to be in a school, but it’s theater to me. There’s no distinction,” he told The Associated Press ahead of the announcement.

Robinson teaches five drama classes a day, offering an average of 95-100 students a three-year sequence of 45-minute parts. “My thing is ‘Go explore and find yourself in this thing called theater,’” he says.Year one is teaching the foundations of theater arts and performing. “I encourage my students every time they come to class to step out the box, explore, try something new today.”