‘A continual assault.’ How UCLA’s research faculty is grappling with Trump funding freeze

Los Angeles Times ^ | Aug. 10, 2025 3 AM PT | Daniel Miller and Jaweed Kaleem

[E. Pluribus Unum]

• The Trump administration’s suspension of grants at UCLA totaling $584 million has imperiled research in an array of subjects.
• Professors at the university said that some researchers rely on the funding to pay their salaries, and the loss of the money could be devastating.

Their medical research focuses on potentially lifesaving breakthroughs in cancer treatment, and developing tools to more easily diagnose debilitating diseases. Their studies in mathematics could make online systems more robust and secure.

But as the academic year opens, the work of UCLA’s professors in these and many other fields has been imperiled by the Trump administration’s suspension of $584 million in grant funding, which University of California President James B. Milliken called a “death knell” to its transformative research.

The freeze came after a July 29 U.S. Department of Justice finding that the university had violated the civil rights of Jewish and Israeli students by providing an inadequate response to alleged antisemitism they faced after the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack.

The fight over the funding stoppage intensified Friday after the Trump administration demanded that UCLA pay a $1-billion fine, among other concessions, to resolve the accusations — and California Gov. Gavin Newsom said the state will sue, calling the proposal “extortion.”

Amid heightened tensions in Westwood, thousands of university academics are in limbo. In total, at least 800 grants, mostly from the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health, have been frozen.

UCLA scholars described days of confusion as they struggle to understand how the loss of grants would affect their work and scramble to uncover new funding sources — or roles that would ensure their continued pay, or that of their colleagues. While professors still have jobs and paychecks to draw on, many others, including graduate...

[Vaduz]

Government tit dries up good deal.

[TalBlack]

“Their medical research focuses on potentially lifesaving breakthroughs in cancer treatment, and developing tools to more easily diagnose debilitating diseases.“

So the imperative that was always there is still there and you wonderful people are damn well going to reach into that massive endowment and keep on keeping on, right?

[Jacquerie]

<> Stop all federal taxpayer subsidies for “homosexual art objects in ancient Persia.”<>

President Trump did that and much more on August 7th.

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[faithhopecharity]

Great! I missed it — super good. Thanks.

[lurk]

Let’s see their list of research projects.

[Singermom]

Remember WEF Klaus Schwab said abt THE PEOPLE. By 2030 you will OWN NOTHING and you will be happy. I say apply that to UCLA now.

[Joe Boucher]

Well how about kissing mooselimbs asses and be fair to them Jews

[1FreeAmerican]

All of which will be replaced by AI.

[rfp1234]

They could start to save research $$$ by not funding out-of-state RATS’ election campaigns.