Kyle Gallego-Mackie

1 month ago | kpbs.org | Kyle Gallego-Mackie |Kyle Mackie |Taylor Haney |Leila Fadel

Updated April 15, 2025 at 05:02 AM ETTara McKay was home on the last night in February when she received an email that made her doubt — if only for a moment — the worthiness of her career. It was a message from a branch of the National Institutes of Health: Funding for a research project she leads at Vanderbilt University's LGBTQ+ Policy Lab had been terminated because it involved transgender issues.

1 month ago | kpbs.org | Taylor Haney |Kyle Gallego-Mackie |Kyle Mackie |Arezou Rezvani

Updated April 14, 2025 at 18:00 PM ETBeing openly conservative at a liberal university comes with certain hazards, according to Miguel Muniz and Martin Bertao. They are the incoming and outgoing presidents of the University of California Berkeley College Republicans and say they face harassment whenever they set up a table on campus. "We're called fascist. We're yelled at. We're spit at," Muniz says, adding that verbal attacks are a constant.