On Oct. 16, 2023 – nine days after an attack by Palestinian political party and militant group Hamas killed around 1,200 people in Israel, and more than 2,700 Palestinians were killed by Israeli retaliatory airstrikes – UCLA Health administrative leaders sent an email to the medical community. Read more...
Photo: The David Geffen School of Medicine is pictured. (Daily Bruin file photo)
This post was updated May 29 at 12:33 a.m. The head of the Trump administration’s federal antisemitism task force said Tuesday that the UC should expect discrimination lawsuits. Read more...
Photo: The UCLA campus is pictured. The head of the Trump administration’s federal antisemitism task force said Tuesday that the UC should expect discrimination lawsuits. (Daily Bruin file photo)
This post was updated June 2 at 6:10 p.m. Kaiala Siale fears for her friends’ safety when they walk down the street together. The digital multimedia broadcast production student lives in Westwood and attends Santa Monica College – where she learned through social media that a fellow student was detained and deported this month by United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Read more...
Photo: The Santa Monica College campus is pictured. SMC community members said they were concerned after the detainment of a student by United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement in early May. (Courtesy of Carolina Barsakov)
UCLA researchers and policy experts said United States Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. lacks qualifications for his role and could derail American research and public health efforts. Read more...
Photo: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took office Feb. 13 as the 26th HHS secretary after then-President-elect Donald Trump named him for the role in November. (Courtesy of the White House/Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License)
Artificial intelligence experts at UCLA said AI deregulation creates cultural challenges and has significant business implications following a Trump administration executive order. One of President Donald Trump’s executive orders – executive order 14179 – passed in January and revoked previous AI regulation policies that he described as “barriers to American AI innovation.” Titled “Removing Barriers to American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence,” the order places a high emphasis on global leadership and competition and deregulating AI. Read more...
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This post was updated May 20 at 11:07 p.m. Both of California’s United States Senators condemned the Trump administration’s revocations of student visas in a Tuesday letter to U.S. Read more...
Photo: California Sen. Alex Padilla speaks at an event in 2019. Padilla and California Sen. Adam Schiff condemned the Trump administration’s revocations of student visas in a Tuesday letter. (Daily Bruin file photo)
UCLA researchers and policy experts expressed concerns about the qualifications of new Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin. Since his appointment, Zeldin has overseen the rollback of 31 environmental regulations and has attempted to revise the EPA’s 2009 findings that greenhouse gases endanger public health, according to an EPA press release. Read more...
Photo: Lee Zeldin, the new Environmental Protection Agency administrator, is pictured. Many UCLA researchers and policy experts expressed concerns about Zeldin’s qualifications. (Photo courtesy of the United States Environmental Protection Agency)
