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)
The UC signed on to an amicus brief filed July 22, standing by Harvard University’s April 2025 lawsuit against the Trump administration. The University was one of 36 colleges and universities that signed the brief, which urges the First Circuit Court of Appeals to side with Harvard in its lawsuit to restore the nearly $2.2 billion in research grants that the federal government suspended in April 2025. Read more...
Photo: Kerckhoff Hall, which frequently stands in for the Harvard University campus in movies and TV shows, is pictured. The UC signed on to an amicus brief filed July 22, standing by Harvard’s April 2025 lawsuit against the Trump administration. (Brighton Ludwig/Daily Bruin)
This post was updated July 26 at 8:20 p.m. July is the Bebe Moore Campbell National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month. The month honors Campbell, an advocate and author who co-founded the National Alliance on Mental Illness Urban Los Angeles to help people from marginalized backgrounds seek mental health services. Read more...
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This post was updated July 12 at 7:39 p.m. The federal government’s proposal to overhaul research grant funding processes could have detrimental effects on scientific research, UCLA researchers said. Read more...
Photo: A research laboratory is featured. Researchers warn that politicians lack the scientific knowledge needed to make the important decisions on grant funding required if the revision is passed. (Selin Filiz/Daily Bruin senior staff)
