One week after Chancellor Julio Frenk condemned a School of Law symposium about the 9/11 terrorist attacks, more than 270 law professors nationwide are raising concerns about academic freedom at the university. Frenk said in a Sept. Read more...
Photo: The UCLA School of Law is pictured. Law professors across the nation ask Chancellor Frenk to withdraw his statement, which they say mischaracterized the law school’s 9/11 remembrance symposium. (Andrew Ramiro Diaz/Photo editor)
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...
Photo: A person votes. The UCLA Voting Rights Project sued the Trump administration Wednesday to block it from using federal databases to allegedly identify noncitizens who are registered to vote in California. (Daily Bruin file photo)
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...
Photo: The UCLA Dashew Center for International Students and Scholars is pictured. UCLA paused some international students’ work authorizations following an Aug. 12 memo from United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement. (Daily Bruin file photo)
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...
Photo: People walk on UCLA campus. The United States Department of Defense ordered UCLA on Aug. 17 to review its foreign partnerships or lose eligibility for future federal research funding. (Crystal Tompkins/Daily Bruin senior staff)
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...
Photo: The U.S. Department of Justice building is pictured. The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to consider overturning a lower court ruling that bars the termination of grants based on the inclusion of diversity-related language on Tuesday. (Myka Fromm/Daily Bruin senior staff)
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...
Photo: Saadia Gabriel, a grant recipient and assistant professor of computer science, is featured. Gabriel’s research aims to improve AI tools for millions of users in Africa. (Courtesy of Saadia Gabriel)
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...
Photo: A community member holds an Opportunity for All campaign sign. 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. (Daily Bruin file photo)
