Three unions representing about 40,000 UC academic and research employees began an unfair labor practice strike authorization vote Thursday.
The voting period for the three unions – United Auto Workers Local 4811, Research and Public Service Professionals-UAW and Student Services and Academic Professionals-UAW, who are currently in contract negotiations with the UC – is set to close Friday.

Ioanna Kakoulli, a professor of materials science and engineering, died Jan. 1. She was 57.
Kakoulli was the first female professor hired by UCLA’s materials science and engineering department, according to an obituary posted by UCLA Global Antiquity.

Khoa-Nathan Ngo is looking to pursue research, serve his community and make a national impact.
Ngo, a fourth-year psychology student, won one of 10 National Institutes of Health undergraduate scholarships offered nationwide in the 2025-26 cycle.

The Undergraduate Students Association Council passed a resolution calling upon UCLA administrators to review faculty with connections to Jeffrey Epstein at its Feb. 3 meeting.
USAC is the official student government representing the undergraduate student body at UCLA.

The United States officially withdrew from the World Health Organization on Jan. 22, marking the end of its 78-year membership.
The United Nations agency – established in 1948 – encourages international collaboration to achieve the “highest attainable standard of health,” according to the WHO constitution.

Waking up at the crack of dawn is routine for a group of swimmers at UCLA’s Sunset Canyon Recreation Center.
About 20 members of the Bruin Masters Swim Club – a UCLA Recreation program for adult faculty, staff and students – start their days with swim sets at 5:45 a.m every Monday through Friday.

Researchers celebrated the role of numerical data in scientific research at a Jan. 26 event at the Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center.
The Lange Symposium on Computational Statics and Biomedical Data Science – hosted by the UCLA Department of Computational Medicine and Human Genetics – invited six speakers from across the country to discuss their research.