A UCLA voting rights research center sued the Trump administration Wednesday to block it from using federal databases to allegedly target naturalized citizens who are registered to vote in California. Read more...
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August 25, 12:44 pm
UCLA pauses some international students’ work authorizations after ICE memo
This post was updated Aug. 30 at 11:20 p.m. UCLA paused some international students’ work authorizations after it received an Aug. 12 memo from United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement, a UCLA Dashew Center for International Students and Scholars spokesperson confirmed Tuesday. Universities suspected of using curricular practical training programs to create employment for international students instead of reasons required for academic studies could lose their certification to enroll exchange and international students, the memo stated. Read more...
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August 24, 1:54 pm
Pentagon orders UCLA to audit foreign ties, threatens to cut research funding
This post was updated Aug. 30 at 11:24 p.m. The United States Department of Defense ordered UCLA on Aug. 17 to review its foreign partnerships or risk losing eligibility for future federal research funding, a U.S. Read more...
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August 22, 10:19 pm
Trump administration petitions Supreme Court to review ruling on UC grant termination
This post was updated Aug. 23 at 6:07 p.m. The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Tuesday to hear an appeal to a ruling in favor of UC researchers who argued that it was illegal to terminate research grants based on diversity-related language. Read more...
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August 17, 2:00 pm
UCLA researcher awarded $250,000 grant to increase AI accessibility
This post was updated Sept. 4 at 3:01 p.m. A UCLA researcher received a new Amazon computing grant to make multilingual artificial intelligence more accessible. Saadia Gabriel, an assistant professor of computer science, was awarded $250,000 of compute credits – which provide processing time, memory and storage on online computer hardware – through Amazon’s Build on Trainium grant. Read more...
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August 13, 7:50 pm
Opportunity for All Act advances to state Senate floor after 5-2 committee vote
The California Senate Appropriations Committee passed a bill Thursday that would allow undocumented students to hold on-campus jobs at UCLA and other public universities across the state. Read more...
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August 11, 10:27 pm
UC joins 35 universities supporting Harvard against Trump administration
The UC signed on to an amicus brief filed July 22, standing by Harvard University’s April 2025 lawsuit against the Trump administration. The University was one of 36 colleges and universities that signed the brief, which urges the First Circuit Court of Appeals to side with Harvard in its lawsuit to restore the nearly $2.2 billion in research grants that the federal government suspended in April 2025. Read more...