UCLA says the federal government has frozen more than a half-billion dollars of its research funds

(CNN) — For the first time since revealing last week that the Trump administration began freezing its federal research funding, the University of California, Los Angeles has put a number on how much is at stake.

And it’s far bigger than previously thought.

“Currently, a total of approximately $584 million in extramural award funding is suspended and at risk,” Chancellor Julio Frenk wrote Wednesday to the university community. “If these funds remain suspended, it will be devastating for UCLA and for Americans across the nation.”

The extent of UCLA’s financial challenge comes as the Trump administration – citing a wish to quell what it describes as rampant antisemitism on US campuses – has inked deals with several prominent universities, including Columbia, which agreed to give the W