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

    08/10/2025 10:27:32 AM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 28 replies
    Los Angeles Times ^ | Aug. 10, 2025 3 AM PT | Daniel Miller and Jaweed Kaleem
    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...
  • UCLA violated Jewish students’ civil rights with ‘deliberate indifference,’ feds say

    07/29/2025 3:31:51 PM PDT · by KingofZion · 5 replies
    Los Angeles Times ^ | July 29, 2025 | Daniel Miller
    The Department of Justice said Tuesday that UCLA violated the civil rights of Jewish and Israeli students who reported harassment and intimidation during a spring 2024 pro-Palestinian campus encampment... In a letter addressed to UC President Michael V. Drake, DOJ officials said “Jewish and Israeli students at UCLA were subjected to severe, pervasive, and objectively offensive harassment that created a hostile environment by members of the encampment.” The letter faulted UCLA for not taking down the encampment until after it was attacked by pro-Israel group. In addition, the department found UCLA was “inadequate” in its response to complaints from Jewish...