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Federal judge orders Trump to restore $500 million in frozen UCLA medical research grants | L.A. Times
A federal judge Monday ordered the Trump administration to restore $500 million in UCLA medical research grants, halting for now a nearly two-month funding crisis that UC leaders said threatened the future of the nation’s premier public university system… Chancellor Julio Frenk has said that defunding medical research “does nothing” to address discrimination allegations. The university displays websites and policies that recognize different gender identities and maintains services for LGBTQ+ communities.
UCLA is ranked as the No. 2 public university | U.S. News & World Report
U.S. News & World Report, the global authority in education rankings, today announced the 2026 Best Colleges rankings. Serving as a guide for prospective students and their families, the national and regional rankings evaluate nearly 1,700 colleges and universities using up to 17 measures of academic quality. In a show of continued excellence, eight of the top-ranked schools in the 10 ranking categories retained their No. 1 position, with the remaining two finishing a strong second. (Also: New York Times, KTLA-TV and KCAL-TV.)
Trump blames Tylenol for autism, dismaying experts | Los Angeles Times
“This is just such a shame when there are so many things we could do to help autistic children and adults, and the negative consequences — making parents feel guilty about taking Tylenol during pregnancy and newly pregnant women afraid — are real,” said Catherine Lord, a clinical psychologist and autism researcher at UCLA. “Just sad all around.” (Lord was also featured by Al Jazeera, KNBC-TV and KTLA-TV.)
Not so NIMBY, Angelenos say they want more housing near them | L.A. Times
(Commentary by UCLA’s Zachary Steinert-Threlkeld) Since 2016, UCLA has commissioned an annual survey of residents of Los Angeles County. In 2023, the survey asked “where new apartments could be built to make housing more available.”… More broadly, city leaders should develop the habit of evaluating policy options using representative survey data rather than responding to the vocal minority. UCLA’s Los Angeles Quality of Life Index, for example, also asks questions about crime, education, emergency services and many other issues critical to residents and elected officials.
Asian American voter turnout and Prop. 50 | Spectrum News 1
“The cool thing, I think, about what has happened is that the assembly really put out a lot of information for us to do an analysis. What we did is really look at the publicly available data, looking to see for Asian American voters, who was more likely to get moved, where folks then were moved in and out of a Democratic or Republican district, and then which districts were gaining in terms of having larger Asian American voters in their district,” said UCLA’s Natalie Matsuoka.
