Open this photo in gallery: Cornell University says that it had received more than 75 stop work orders earlier Tuesday from the Defence Department related to research 'profoundly significant to American national defence, cybersecurity, and health' but that it hadn't otherwise received any information confirming $1-billion in frozen grants.Ted Shaffrey/The Canadian Press More than $1-billion in federal funding for Cornell University and around $790-million for Northwestern University has been frozen while the government investigates alleged civil-rights violations at the schools, the White House said. It’s part of a broader push to use government funding to get major academic institutions to...