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March 20, 6:54 pm

United Auto Workers units finalize agreements with UC, avoid strike

This post was updated March 24 at 9:10 a.m. Three United Auto Workers units ratified contracts with the UC on Friday, averting a strike after months of bargaining.  The three units – UAW Local 4811’s academic student employees unit, Research and Public Service Professionals-UAW and Student Services and Advising Professionals-UAW – represent more than 40,000 UC academic and research employees, including teaching assistants. Read more...

Photo: Members of UC’s United Auto Workers units protest outside Royce Hall. Three UAW units voted to ratify contracts with the UC on Friday, averting a strike after months of bargaining. (Andrew Ramiro Diaz/Photo editor)

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March 19, 12:04 am

UCLA’s Chicana/o studies department votes to remove César E. Chávez from its name

This post was updated March 19 at 10:45 a.m. UCLA’s Chicana/o studies department unanimously voted Wednesday afternoon to remove César E. Chávez from its name following sexual abuse allegations against the labor leader. Read more...

Photo: Bunche Hall, which houses UCLA’s Chicana/o studies department, is pictured. The department unanimously voted Wednesday afternoon to remove César E. Chávez from its name amid sexual abuse allegations against the labor leader. However, only Chancellor Julio Frenk and UC President James Milliken have the authority to rename UCLA properties and programs, according to University policy. (Amelia Chief/Daily Bruin senior staff)

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March 15, 6:57 pm

UCLA Health is leading the effort to treat and destigmatize addiction

This post was updated April 2 at 10:06 p.m. Dr. Julio Meza lost two family members to addiction-related illnesses when he was a child. Now, as a UCLA Health physician, he leads a program providing doctors with addiction-specific training. Read more...

Photo: The UCLA Gonda building, which houses the Brain Research Institute that hosts the UCLA Integrative Center for Addictive Disorders, is pictured. (Michael Gallagher/Assistant Photo editor)

A Closer Look, Academics, California, Los Angeles, National, News, Science & Health

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March 14, 12:32 am

UCLA Faculty Association, science advocates host Stand Up for Science protest

Science advocates and UCLA Faculty Association members called on Californians to support a bill that would put scientific research funding on the 2026 ballot at a Saturday protest in Westwood. Read more...

Photo: Dave Farina, a science educator with 4.2 million YouTube subscribers and known for his channel “Professor Dave Explains,” gives a speech criticizing what he called a growing anti-science sentiment from the federal government. (Nicholas Mouchawar/Daily Bruin)

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March 13, 10:30 pm

UC reaches tentative agreements with 3 United Auto Workers units

The UC reached tentative agreements with three United Auto Workers units that had threatened to strike, the units announced Friday. The tentative agreement, if approved, will become the first contracts for Student Services and Advising Professionals-UAW and Research and Public Service Professionals-UAW, which were officially recognized by the University in April and September, respectively. Read more...

Photo: Members of United Auto Workers’ UC units stand outside Royce Hall at a picket on Thursday. The UC reached tentative agreements with three UAW units that had threatened to strike, the units announced Friday. (Andrew Ramiro Diaz/Photo editor)

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March 9, 8:28 pm

Remembering Aimée Dorr, former dean of UCLA Ed&IS, UC provost

Aimée Dorr, the former UC provost and dean of the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, died Jan. 25. She was 83. Dorr joined the UCLA faculty in 1981 as a professor in the education department who researched the impacts of electronic media on children. Read more...

Photo: Aimée Dorr, the former UC provost and dean of the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, smiles. Dorr died Jan. 25 at 83 years old. (Courtesy of UCLA Ed&IS staff)

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March 7, 10:00 pm

Professor Alex Wang discusses China, climate action at UCLA Law event

Law professor Alex Wang credited China for its advancements in green technology but criticized its shortcomings in ecological protection at a book talk Wednesday. The talk was divided between Wang’s explanation of his book titled “Chinese Global Environmentalism” and a conversation between him and Mary Nichols, the former chair of the California Air Resources Board. Read more...

Photo: The event was organized by the UCLA Emmett Institute on Climate Change & the Environment and took place at the UCLA School of Law, which is pictured. (Daily Bruin file photo)


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