Friday, June 26

UAW Local 4811 rallies to demand UC protect international workers

This post was updated Nov. 2 at 11:29 p.m. About 70 members of United Auto Workers Local 4811 rallied outside of Royce Hall on Wednesday afternoon to demand that the UC protect international workers.  The union began the rally around noon, with multiple leaders speaking in support of a petition outlining its demands for international workers that has at least 10,000 signatories and was delivered to UC administrators and campus leaders earlier in the day. Read more...

Photo: About 70 members of the United Auto Works Local 4811 outside Royce Hall are pictured. The union rallied Wednesday in support of a petition outlining demands to the UC such as a legal defense fund for people who experience changes to their immigration status. (Leydi Cris Cobo Cordon/Daily Bruin senior staff)


Bruin Learn down following an Amazon Web Services outage

This post was updated Oct. 20 at 4:01 p.m. Bruin Learn, UCLA’s primary learning management system, shut down early Monday morning because of an Amazon Web Services outage.  Canvas – the platform that Bruin Learn was built on – said in a message on the Bruin Learn homepage that it is working to recover the website as soon as possible. Read more...

Photo: The Bruin Learn homepage is pictured. The learning management system shut down early Monday morning because of an Amazon Web Service outage. (Selin Filiz/Assistant Photo editor)


UC sets world record for most Nobel laureates from a university system

This post was updated Oct. 19 at 11:21 p.m. UC faculty and alumni earned five Nobel prizes in a single year – the most by any university system in history.  Four UC faculty members and one alumnus won Nobel prizes related to physiology or medicine, chemistry and physics in 2025. Read more...

Photo: A person works in a lab at UCLA. UC faculty and alumni earned five Nobel laureates in a single year – the most by any university system in history. (Selin Filiz/Assistant Photo editor)


Judge rules UC must publicize Trump administration settlement demands

This post was updated Oct. 14 at 11:30 p.m. A judge ruled Tuesday that the UC Board of Regents must publicize the Trump administration’s proposed settlement demands to UCLA. Read more...

Photo: Janss Steps are pictured. A judge ruled Tuesday that the UC Board of Regents must publicize the Trump administration’s proposed settlement demands to UCLA. (Daily Bruin file photo)


UC Regents discuss UC Health spending, nurse working condition, University funding

This post was updated Oct. 12 at 9:38 p.m. The UC Board of Regents provided an overview of the UC Health’s community benefit spending, discussed raising tuition for students and heard public comment from union members during its September meeting. Read more...

Photo: UC San Francisco is pictured. The UC Board of Regents provided an overview of the UC Health’s community benefit spending, discussed raising tuition for students and heard public comment from union members during its September meeting. (Daily Bruin file photo)


UC Regents approves new external auditor, senior VP $1.9 million incentive award

A UC Board of Regents committee approved a nearly $2 million bonus for the University’s chief investment officer Sept. 16. The governance committee unanimously approved an incentive award of $1,975,558 in three annual installments to Jagdeep Singh Bachher, the UC’s chief investment officer and senior vice president, for the 2024-2025 fiscal year. Read more...

Photo: Regent Janet Reilly is pictured. A UC Board of Regents committee approved a nearly $2 million bonus for the University’s chief investment officer Sept. 16. (Zimo Li/Daily Bruin senior staff)


NIH temporarily reinstates suspended UCLA grants following federal judge decision

This post was updated Sept. 25 at 3:41 p.m. Nearly two months after the federal government froze over half a billion dollars in research funding to UCLA, the National Institutes of Health has temporarily reinstated its suspended grants Tuesday – abiding by a federal judge’s Monday ruling.  Vice Chancellor for Research and Creative Activities Roger Wakimoto announced the restatement in a Wednesday email to the UCLA community, where he added that the majority of the university’s suspended grants have temporarily been reinstated.  The federal government suspended $584 million dollars in funding to UCLA – including $500 million from the NIH – July 30 and 31. Read more...

Photo: A researcher works in a UCLA lab. Vice Chancellor for Research and Creative Activities Roger Wakimoto announced in a Wednesday email that UCLA’s suspended grants from the National Institutes of Health were reinstated. (Selin Filiz/Assistant Photo editor)



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