Environmental journalist Sammy Roth emphasized the importance of accurate and engaging storytelling in the fight against climate change during a Friday event. Roth has spent more than a decade reporting on climate change, energy, policy and the intersection of the environment and pop culture. Read more...
Photo: Roth speaks to an audience about the importance of accurate and engaging storytelling in the fight against climate change. (Alexis Muchnik/Daily Bruin)
This post was updated Jan. 14 at 9:31 a.m. An official in UCLA’s office of equity, diversity and inclusion said UCLA fired him Monday over social media posts in which he expressed satisfaction about the murder of right-wing commentator Charlie Kirk. UCLA put Johnathan Perkins, the EDI office’s former director of race and equity, on investigatory leave in September after he posted comments in which he appeared to celebrate Kirk’s death on the social media platform Bluesky. Read more...
Photo: A GoFundMe started by Johnathan Perkins is pictured. Perkins – the UCLA EDI office’s former director of race and equity – said UCLA fired him Monday over social media posts in which he allegedly expressed satisfaction about the murder of right-wing commentator Charlie Kirk. (Andrew Ramiro Diaz/Photo editor)
UCLA professors and researchers expressed concern about uncertainty around federal support for special education programs under the Trump administration. The U.S. Department of Education laid off 121 of 135 employees in the Office for Special Education and Rehabilitative Services during the federal government shutdown from Oct. Read more...
Photo: Moore Hall, where UCLA’s School of Education and Information Studies is primarily located, is pictured. UCLA professors and researchers expressed concern about uncertainty around federal support for special education programs under the Trump administration. (Vanessa Man/Daily Bruin)
Undergraduate Students Association Council officers said they have tried to fight for students’ interests amid the Trump administration’s grant cuts to UCLA. The Trump administration suspended nearly 800 of UCLA’s research grants from the National Science Foundation, the United States Department of Energy and the National Institutes of Health in early July, alleging that UCLA allowed antisemitism, affirmative action and “men to participate in women’s sports.” Rita F. Read more...
Photo: A research lab at UCLA is pictured. Officers of the Undergraduate Students Association Council criticized the pull of research funding and other actions by the Trump administration in the last six months. (Daily Bruin file photo)
This post was updated Jan. 13 at 9:42 p.m. “Scurfy” mice, DNA sequencing and a Seattle biotechnology company were integral to the research that Mary E. Read more...
Photo: Mary E. Brunkow, one of the 2025 Nobel laureates, is pictured. Brunkow, UCLA alumnus Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi earned the prize for their work in discovering the Foxp3 gene and its crucial function in regulatory T-cell development. (Selin Filiz/Assistant Photo editor)
This post was updated Jan. 11 at 10:02 p.m. President Donald Trump mischaracterized a video of UCLA students participating in the quarterly Undie Run as Venezuelans celebrating the ousting of deposed President Nicolas Maduro in a post to his social media platform Truth Social on Sunday. Read more...
Photo: President Donald Trump mischaracterized a video of UCLA students participating in the quarterly Undie Run as Venezuelans celebrating the ousting of deposed President Nicolas Maduro in a post to his social media platform Truth Social on Sunday. The post is pictured. (Aidan Sun/Assistant Photo editor)
Federal funding cuts have left the futures of thousands of volunteering opportunities for California college students uncertain since April 2025. The Trump administration withheld more than $184 million in grants from AmeriCorps, which provides funding to a variety of community service programs – mainly focusing on education, public health and environmental stewardship – last spring. Read more...
Photo: The AmeriCorps volunteer website is pictured. Federal funding cuts have left the futures of thousands of volunteering opportunities for California college students uncertain since April 2025. (Joice Ngo/Daily Bruin)
