Five UCLA professors were selected as 2023 Guggenheim fellows. The names of the 171 individuals selected as this year’s awardees were announced April 5 by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Read more...
Photo: Royce Hall is pictured. Five UCLA professors were selected this year to be awarded a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to support their research across a variety of fields. (Daily Bruin file photo)
The Williams Institute – a public policy research institute at the UCLA School of Law – recently released a report highlighting the disparities that people with minority identities face in higher education settings. Read more...
Photo: The UCLA School of Law is pictured. The School of Law’s Williams Institute recently released the findings of a report that sought to shed light on inequitable treatment faced by students of minority identities in higher education. (Daily Bruin file photo)
This post was updated April 13 at 11:28 p.m. Graduating Bruins will hear from UCLA alumnus and famous actor and director Randall Park at the UCLA College commencement on June 16, UCLA announced Wednesday. Read more...
Photo: Randall Park stands for a picture at Sundance Film Festival. (Vivian Xu/Daily Bruin senior staff)
This post was updated April 12 at 12:13 a.m. The UC National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement hosted its fifth annual #SpeechMatters conference on March 23. Read more...
Photo: The start of the UC National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement’s #SpeechMatters conference is pictured. Panelists discussed threats to free speech and how academic freedoms may be impacted. (Constanza Montemayor/Daily Bruin senior staff)
A ripple effect of university labor actions has followed the UC academic worker strikes, exposing long-standing issues with employment conditions in higher education. Graduate students at Temple University, a public university in Philadelphia, started a six-week long strike in January, calling for higher wages, health care benefits and better working conditions. Read more...
Photo: Academic student workers picket during the United Auto Workers strike. Other strikes have gone on at other schools across the nation, as deficiencies in the treatment of academic workers come to light. (Christine Kao/Daily Bruin staff)
This post was updated March 27 at 12:21 a.m. A UC student research collective found that survivors of sexual violence are dissatisfied with resources across all 10 campuses. Read more...
Photo: Murphy Hall, which houses the UCLA Title IX Office, is pictured. A study from a collective formed through UC Survivors and Allies found that the UC system lacks proper resources and outreach for sexual violence survivors. (Daily Bruin file photo)
Student Researchers United and United Auto Workers Local 2865, unions representing graduate student researchers and academic student employees, respectively, merged to become known solely as UAW Local 2865, it announced Monday. Read more...
Photo: Pictured is a United Auto Workers union strike. Student Researchers United and UAW Local 2865 announced via Twitter on Monday that they would merge to be known only as UAW Local 2865, representing a combined 36,000 graduate student employees at the UC. (Christine Kao/Daily Bruin staff)
