U-M President Mary Sue Coleman urges lawmakers to end sequestration cuts

University of Michigan President Mary Sue Coleman Wednesday urged lawmakers in Washington to reach an agreement to end federal cuts known as sequestration, The Detroit News reported.

U-M estimated last month that the cuts, the result of the failure of Congress and the Obama administration to reach a broader deal to cut the federal deficit, could cost U-M $40 million in research funding.

Coleman was in Washington to speak at an alumni breakfast and while there held meetings with lawmakers, according to the report.

U-M head of research Stephen Forrest last month warned regents about the impact of the cuts on research.

"It is a meat cleaver-approach to solving budget problems,” he said. "We don't know what the future's going to look like. It's certainly not going to be very robust."

• Read the article in The Detroit News.