Sunday, June 28

UCLA plans to consolidate some campus services to cut costs, increase ‘efficiency’

This post was updated September 7 at 8:14 p.m. UCLA plans to consolidate campus human resources, finance, communications, marketing, event planning and academic personnel services to cut costs, according to internal documents acquired by the Daily Bruin. Read more...

Photo: UCLA’s “One IT” website is pictured. Two vice chancellors announced that the university will “streamline” services distributed across multiple campus units in line with Goal 5 of its Strategic Plan. (Aidan Sun/Assistant Photo editor)


Research and public service professionals vote to form new UC union

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)


LAPD standoff in Westwood results in traffic delays on Sepulveda Boulevard

This post was updated Sept. 2 at 12:43 p.m. Over 15 police vehicles – including an LAPD helicopter – responded to a standoff in Westwood on Tuesday morning that caused traffic delays. Read more...

Photo: Police respond to a standoff on Sepulveda Boulevard. The incident began around 7 a.m. and blocked traffic in both directions. (Maggie Konecky/Daily Bruin senior staff)


Federal funding cuts ‘drastically limit’ undergraduate research opportunities

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)


UC Faculty propose multi-billion dollar fund in response to federal funding freeze

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 federal-research-backed device saved her life. Amid grant cuts, she’s worried

This post was updated Aug. 31 at 10:05 p.m. Erin Morrow began experiencing shortness of breath and chest pain at 20 years old. Morrow, who is now a doctoral student in psychology at UCLA, said she consulted several doctors as an undergraduate student at Emory University before being diagnosed with a third-degree atrioventricular block – a heart rhythm disorder where the organ’s upper and lower chambers do not properly send signals to each other. Read more...

Photo: Erin Morrow, a doctoral student in psychology at UCLA, holds a newspaper. Morrow said federally funded research saved her life after she was diagnosed with a third-degree atrioventricular block. (Courtesy of Erin Morrow)



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