Pell grants, the need-based aid granted to 8,600 MSU students last academic year, will maintain its current maximum amount of $5,550. The deal eliminates students’ ability to obtain such a grant during the summer semester.

The latter stipulation, though, was included in President Barack Obama’s budget proposal for the fiscal year set to begin Oct. 1 because it was deemed financially inviable. Congress has yet to act on the president’s proposals for the next fiscal year.

A multimillion-dollar nuclear research facility being built at MSU escaped a potentially large funding cut. The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, or FRIB, held onto its $10 million appropriation for this year, said Kent Cassella, MSU’s director of media communications.

“Of course, we see that as acknowledgement of the importance of the project,” Cassella said.

The deal did block proposals by the president to increase scientific research funding this year. For example, nearly $6.8 billion in funding for the National Science Foundation, through which MSU receives research dollars, was blocked.

MSU administrators who have been wary in recent months of reduced federal funding for such endeavors could not be reached for comment Tuesday.