This post was updated Sept. 7 at 8:19 p.m. Research and public service professionals across the UC voted Tuesday to form a new union that will represent 7,200 workers. Read more...
Photo: United Auto Workers Local 4811 picket on the UCLA campus. A new UC union, Research and Public Service Professionals-United Auto Workers, will serve as an organizational unit of UAW. (Daily Bruin file photo)
This post was updated Sept. 7 at 8:33 p.m. Federal funding cuts and tight budgets will lead to fewer opportunities for undergraduates looking to do research in UCLA labs. Read more...
Photo: Scientific research posters are pictured. Research opportunities for undergraduate students will be severely limited as a direct result of the loss of federal funding. (Leydi Cris Cobo Cordon/Daily Bruin senior staff)
This post was updated Sept. 7 at 8:22 p.m. UC faculty are proposing the creation of a multi-billion-dollar fund to support UC researchers in the wake of the federal funding suspension to UCLA. Read more...
Photo: The California State Capitol is pictured. UC faculty are proposing the creation of a multi-billion-dollar fund to support UC researchers in the wake of the federal funding suspension to UCLA. (Edward Ho/Daily Bruin)
This post was updated Aug. 31 at 10:55 p.m. A district court judge said Tuesday she will hear arguments over whether UCLA’s suspended National Institutes of Health grants should be restored. The federal government suspended around 800 grants to UCLA from the NIH, National Science Foundation and U.S. Read more...
Photo: People stroll on Bruin Walk. A district court judge said Tuesday that she will hear arguments over whether UCLA’s suspended National Institutes of Health grants should be restored. (Daily Bruin file photo)
This post was updated Aug. 31 at 9:52 p.m. The chairman of the United States House of Representatives Committee on Education and Workforce announced Monday that it is investigating the David Geffen School of Medicine over antisemitism claims. In a letter addressed to Steven Dubinett, the school’s dean, chairman Tim Walberg – a Michigan Republican – said the committee has been made aware of reports that Jewish students at the medical school experienced “hostility and fear at the hands of peers, colleagues, and administrators” and that their concerns were not addressed by the university. He added in the letter that the committee is looking into if UCLA violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits “any program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance” from discrimination based on race, color or national origin, according to the U.S. Read more...
Photo: The David Geffen School of Medicine is pictured. A U.S. House of Representatives committee announced Monday that it is investigating the medical school for alleged antisemitism. (Daily Bruin file photo)
Dr. Paul Lukac, the inaugural chief artificial intelligence officer at UCLA Health, sat down with Daily Bruin science and health editor Shaun Thomas to discuss how UCLA Health is leveraging AI to improve scheduling and organization and how it is preparing its workforce for an increasingly digital future. Read more...
Photo: Dr. Lukac, the inaugural chief artificial intelligence officer at UCLA Health, is pictured. (Courtesy of Paul Lukac)
This post was updated Aug. 31 at 10:08 p.m. A new technology dashboard created by UCLA researchers highlights climate inequity and air pollution in the Latino community. Read more...
Photo: The Climate and Health Dashboard is pictured. (Andrew Ramiro Diaz/Photo editor)
