The sequester is still impacting university research budgets, and administrators continue to lobby hard for the reinstatement of funding.

This week university presidents meeting in the nation’s capital denounced the sequester, as they have since before it took effect in March, and urged Congress to roll it back so that federally sponsored research can resume at a normal pace.

“The sequester is having a devastating impact,” said Elson S. Floyd, president of Washington State University. He was joined by others Monday at a news conference to release the results of a survey sponsored by the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities, the Association of American Universities and the Science Coalition.

In October, the groups asked 171 leaders of research universities about the effects of the sequester, and got 74 responses.

Seven out of 10 who responded said they had encountered delays in research projects since the sequester took effect, and the same share said their schools were obtaining fewer new research grants.

The toll goes on: 30 percent reported reductions in undergraduate student research; 35 percent, reductions in new federal training grants; 23 percent, reductions in admission of graduate students; 35 percent, cancellation of research projects.

In March, The Washington Post reported that about $30 billion a year flows from the federal government to universities for research and development. The sequester is likely to shrink that funding by more than $1 billion. But the full effect of the sequester on federal research funding is still unknown, university advocates say.