The Australian National University has lost funding as the Trump administration puts pressure on universities to justify how American grants are spent.
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In a message to staff, vice-chancellor Genevieve Bell said: "We have had the first termination of funding from the United States".
There were no further details about how much funding the university had lost nor about which departments it had originally been allocated to.
The ANU is thought to be the first Australian entity to acknowledge losing money because of pressure from Washington.
The "termination of funding" revelation came after the Trump administration sent a 36-question form to at least eight universities in Australia. It mirrors that sent to American universities, some of which have subsequently had their funding cut by hundreds of millions of dollars.
Among the questions to Australian universities was whether any departments or staff "defend against gender ideology" or have any policies promoting "diversity, equity and inclusion".
When asked if the ANU had received the questionnaire, an ANU spokesman said: "We don't have anything to add at this stage."
Apart from questions on "woke" issues like gender ideology, the questionnaire also asked Australian academics about links to China and to terrorism.
One question asks: "Can you confirm that your agency has not collaborated with, had any accusations or investigations of working with an entity on the terrorism watch list, cartels, narco/human traffickers, organised or groups that promote mass migration in the last 10 years? [yes/no]."
In her message to staff, Professor Bell also indicated the pressure she was under after criticism: "In these moments it can be hard to know what to say or do or how to respond but how we turn up matters. We have to navigate some of the most challenging issues faced by any organisation - balancing financial stability with our mission and long-term prosperity - and we each play a role in how we turn up for ourselves, our teams and our entire community to make this period as manageable as possible."
On the broader matter of the questionnaire from the US, the Australian Academy of Science said the government should "give serious and urgent attention to recent actions by American authorities".
"If responses to the survey lead to reductions or cessation of US-Australian scientific collaborations, it will directly threaten our scientific and technological capability and diminish Australia's strategic capability in areas of national interest such as defence, health, disaster mitigation and response, AI and quantum technology."
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The Academy of Science said that US government funding involving Australian research organisations added up to $336 million.
The main union at the university urged the federal government to protect Australian researchers from foreign influence.
"The Federal government must push back on the Trump administration's blatant foreign interference in our independent research in the strongest possible terms," Alison Barnes, president of the National Tertiary Education Union, said.
"A foreign government seeking to destroy public education globally must have zero influence on what Australian researchers and their international colleagues work on.
"Donald Trump's hateful agenda is racist, transphobic and misogynistic. The idea of research funding being tied to any of those values is sickening."
