The UC has agreed “to engage in dialogue with the federal administration” about its $584 million cut in research grants to UCLA, according to Wednesday statements from UC and UCLA administrators. Read more...
Photo: A lab at UCLA is pictured. The UC has agreed “to engage in dialogue with the federal administration” about its $584 million cut in research grants to UCLA, according to Wednesday statements from UC and UCLA administrators. (Libby Li/Daily Bruin)
This post was updated Aug. 8 at 3:39 p.m. A California Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that a UC policy barring undocumented students from holding on-campus jobs is unlawfully discriminatory. Read more...
Photo: A picket sign for the “Opportunity for All” movement – which advocates for undocumented students to be able to hold on-campus jobs at universities – is pictured. A California Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that a UC policy barring undocumented students from holding on-campus jobs is unlawfully discriminatory. (Daily Bruin file photo)
Editors note: This piece was updated Aug. 5 at 10:53 p.m. to replace a passage that appears to have been improperly appropriated from another news organization. Read more...
Photo: Lab equipment is pictured. The federal government has suspended around 9% of UCLA’s National Institutes of Health grants and blocked the university from receiving new awards, UCLA administrators said at a virtual town hall Monday. (Daily Bruin file photo)
Community members, students and faculty called on the UC Board of Regents to raise staff and health care workers’ wages, protect programs impacted by losses in federal funding and reverse layoffs at the board’s July meeting. Read more...
Photo: Max Belasco, a co-chair of UCLA’s University Professional and Technical Employees-Communications Workers of America 9119 chapter, speaks at a University Council-American Federation of Teachers Local 1474 protest July 15. Community members, students and faculty called on the UC Board of Regents to raise staff and health care workers’ wages, protect programs impacted by losses in federal funding and reverse layoffs at the board’s July meeting. (Leydi Cris Cobo Cordon/Daily Bruin senior staff)
The posters and bulletin boards outside UCLA’s ethnic studies centers have been the target of over a dozen vandalism incidents since April. Incidents have involved the removal or destruction of posters, flyers and office placards, said Jeffrey Chobanian, the acting captain of the UCPD administrative and operations bureau, in an emailed statement. Read more...
Photo: The Chicano Studies Research Center’s bulletin board is pictured in Haines Hall. The posters, flyers and office placards of UCLA’s ethnic studies centers have been vandalized in over a dozen incidents since April. (Leydi Cris Cobo Cordon/Daily Bruin senior staff)
This post was updated Aug. 3 at 8:50 p.m. About 800 research grants have been suspended at UCLA, according to a Friday email from Vice Chancellor for Research and Creative Activities Roger Wakimoto. Read more...
Photo: The UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, which houses many research projects funded by NIH and NSF grants, is pictured. (Zimo Li/Daily Bruin senior staff)
A counter-protester charged with assaulting protesters at UCLA’s Palestine solidarity encampment in spring 2024 accepted a plea deal July 7. Malachi Marlan-Librett, who graduated from UC Santa Cruz in 2019 and then attended a UCLA film program, was charged with assault with a deadly weapon, battery and a hate crime after he allegedly assaulted, followed and yelled racial epithets at pro-Palestine protesters in the encampment. Read more...
Photo: A counter-protester sprays chemicals on people inside the Palestine solidarity encampment in spring 2024. A man charged with assaulting protesters at the encampment accepted a plea deal July 7. (Daily Bruin file photo)
