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Maddie Khaw

Maddie Khaw

Reporting Intern
The Chronicle of Higher Education

Maddie Khaw is a reporter for The Chronicle. Email her at maddie.khaw@chronicle.com.

Maddie graduated from Emerson College, where she was an assistant news editor at The Berkeley Beacon, the campus newspaper. She completed a co-op at The Boston Globe, where she helped lead the newspaper’s coverage of Gaza encampments across Boston-area colleges. She also freelanced for Prism, a nonprofit newsroom.

Stories by This Author

Vector illustration of two researcher's hands putting dollar signs into a beaker leaking green liquid.
'Life Support'
As the Nation’s Research-Funding Model Ruptures, Private Money Becomes a Band-Aid
By Maddie Khaw May 23, 2025
Some foundations are offering much-needed stopgaps for researchers. But that’s not a permanent fix, scientists and advocates say.
Harvard University
'Deeply Unsettling'
Harvard’s Battle With Trump Escalates as Research Money Is Suddenly Canceled
By Maddie Khaw May 15, 2025
The university filed an amended complaint against the administration in response to the loss of the grants, which had previously been frozen.
Photo-based illustration of a Sonoma State University clock structure that's fallen into a hole in a $100 bill.
Campus Crossroads
Sonoma State U. Is Making Big Cuts to Close a Budget Hole. What Will Be Left?
By Maddie Khaw May 12, 2025
The Cal State campus is slashing academic programs, laying off faculty, and, in an unusual move, scuttling its entire Division II athletics program.
Matthias Doepke
Q&A
Citing Trump’s Targeting of International Students, a Professor Says He’s Leaving the Country
By Maddie Khaw April 24, 2025
Matthias Doepke resigned from Northwestern University this week: “I find it difficult to tell people, ‘You should come to America to study for your Ph.D.’ if I can’t guarantee they’re not going to be thrown out.”
Dressed in academic regalia, Alex Rodriguez, a music lecturer at Wellesley College, protests with students and professors in front of the college entrance on March 27. Non-tenure-track faculty at the college are on strike.
'A moral dilemma'
Wellesley Faculty Are on Strike. They Say Administrators Asked Their Colleagues to Cross the Picket Line.
By Maddie Khaw April 21, 2025
With five weeks left in the semester, administrators reopened registration for hundreds of students. Chaos and bitter feelings ensued.
Two Georgetown University students design and paint custom t-shirts at the library's Maker Hub.
Getting physical
Craving Connection, Some Gen-Z Students Unplug
By Maddie Khaw April 14, 2025
They’re defying stereotypes to pursue old-fashioned hobbies — yes, even reading.
Protest signs lay in a pile before a large crowd of academic workers, staff, faculty, and community supporters gathers for a rally organized by the UAW Local 4121 to oppose Trump administration funding cuts to the National Institute of Health on the University of Washington campus in Seattle, Washington, USA, on Wed., Feb. 19, 2025.
'A Perfect Storm'
All of Columbia’s NIH Funding Is Apparently Frozen. Here’s What That Looks Like for One Researcher.
By Maddie Khaw April 11, 2025
What’s it like to try to keep a federally funded research lab afloat when your institution has seemingly been singled out by the government as Public Enemy No. 1?
Protest signs at a rally on the University of Washington campus in Seattle
Fighting in the courts
The NIH’s Cancellation of Hundreds of Grants Is an ‘Ideological Purge,’ Lawsuit Says
By Maddie Khaw April 2, 2025
The complaint, filed Wednesday by the American Public Health Association and the United Auto Workers union, joins a burgeoning resistance to research cuts.
Attendees of a labor-union rally protest the Trump administration's cuts to the National Institutes of Health on the University of Washington's campus in Seattle.
'This is not a drill'
As Cuts Pile Up, Can Scientists Win Back the Public?
By Maddie Khaw April 2, 2025
A renewed focus on engagement, some researchers say, is urgent and overdue. “When science is sidelined,” one said, “people get hurt.”
Will (Lia) Thomas of the Pennsylvania Quakers during a meet against the Brown Bears at Sheerr Pool on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania on November 16, 2019 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
'Worried and Horrified'
Trump to Freeze $175 Million for U. of Pennsylvania in Latest Federal-Funding Threat
By Maddie Khaw March 19, 2025
The pause is connected to an investigation into transgender athletes’ participation in sports. As of Wednesday afternoon, the university said it hadn’t heard anything from the federal government.
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