In one year, Irene Ontiveros completed clinical rotations, turned in her final graduate school assignments and welcomed her daughter into the world. With her graduation from the Joe C. Read more...
Photo: Ontiveros pictured with her peers and mentors during her graduation at the Joe C. Wen School of Nursing. She cited this network as some of her “biggest cheerleaders” throughout this time. (Courtesy of Kristi Westphaln)
Gov. Gavin Newsom is pushing back against the Trump administration amid federal funding cuts to UCLA that amount to over half a billion dollars. Newsom urged UC administrators to not sell “their soul” to President Donald Trump in an Aug. Read more...
Photo: Gov. Gavin Newsom is pictured. Newsom is pushing back against the Trump administration amid federal funding cuts to UCLA that amount to over half a billion dollars. (Daily Bruin file photo)
This post was updated Sept. 7 at 8:22 p.m. UC faculty are proposing the creation of a multi-billion-dollar fund to support UC researchers in the wake of the federal funding suspension to UCLA. Read more...
Photo: The California State Capitol is pictured. UC faculty are proposing the creation of a multi-billion-dollar fund to support UC researchers in the wake of the federal funding suspension to UCLA. (Edward Ho/Daily Bruin)
This post was updated Aug. 31 at 10:55 p.m. A district court judge said Tuesday she will hear arguments over whether UCLA’s suspended National Institutes of Health grants should be restored. The federal government suspended around 800 grants to UCLA from the NIH, National Science Foundation and U.S. Read more...
Photo: People stroll on Bruin Walk. A district court judge said Tuesday that she will hear arguments over whether UCLA’s suspended National Institutes of Health grants should be restored. (Daily Bruin file photo)
Shaylyn Becton believes community college should have no barriers. That’s why she advocated for California Assembly Bill 1035 – a bill that would waive fees for community college students – as a California fellow for IGNITE, a civic engagement organization for women that holds an annual state-level advocacy conference, IGNITE the Capitol California. Read more...
Photo: (Helen Juwon Park/Illustrations director)
This post was updated Aug. 31 at 10:08 p.m. A new technology dashboard created by UCLA researchers highlights climate inequity and air pollution in the Latino community. Read more...
Photo: The Climate and Health Dashboard is pictured. (Andrew Ramiro Diaz/Photo editor)
Since March, the Trump administration has suspended the research grants of multiple elite private universities for allegedly allowing antisemitism on their campuses. But in July, it went after UCLA, a public university that experts said has fewer resources to handle the suspension of its grants and is more wrapped up in politics as one of the flagship universities of a blue state. Read more...
Photo: Royce Hall is pictured. Since March, the Trump administration has suspended the research grants of multiple elite private universities for allegedly allowing antisemitism on their campuses. (Daily Bruin file photo)
