UCLA is generating a nearly $400 million annual structural budget deficit, according to a Jan. 29 Academic Senate preliminary report.
The report – created by the Academic Senate’s Council on Planning and Budget – said data provided by UCLA administrators showed that the university is projected to run a combined $829.7 million deficit across the 2025 and 2026 fiscal years if it has not taken and does not take any corrective action.

This post was updated Feb. 7 at 11:14 p.m.
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Daniel Walker Howe, the former chair of UCLA’s history department and a Pulitzer Prize winner, died Dec. 25. He was 88 years old.
Howe was a faculty member in UCLA’s history department from 1972 to 1993 and served as the department’s chair from 1983 to 1987.

Ma’ayan Epstein noticed disparities in patient care when working in the field as a psychiatry clinical research coordinator.
She said she found that patients from lower-income areas – not privately insured – were less likely to receive treatment and prognosis from health care professionals.

Abraham Adhanom was wrapping up his 14th year of teaching two African language courses when the dean of humanities notified him his classes would be eliminated after spring 2025.

This post was updated Jan. 27 at 9:58 p.m.
Gareth James will serve as the next dean of the UCLA Anderson School of Management, UCLA announced Jan.

Quincy Peters’ family friend was shot and killed by police in 2008.
Fifteen years later, she began working at the UCLA BioCritical Studies Lab – where researchers analyze the autopsies of people who have died in jails or during encounters with law enforcement officers – with the hopes of making legislative change to the policing system.