Author Archives: Adam Foxman

Personal stories of rape, sexual violence, pain and survival will be on display today in Schoenberg quad. The stories will appear on dozens of T-shirts, painted by survivors of sexual violence over the last six years at UCLA, the Santa Monica Rape Treatment Center and the Sexual Assault Crisis Agency in Long Beach. Today through […]

In a small classroom on the 10th floor of Bunche Hall, Jaime Luis Daza speaks to his three graduate students in a language that is rarely heard in North American universities. In a deep and sonorous voice, Daza forms phrases from long strings of suffixes and his students answer him in kind. The words build […]

The Department of Energy awarded a new five-year contract for management of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory to the University of California on Tuesday in the first competition for management of the lab since its founding in 1931. The contract, which includes $469 million in annual funding from the DOE’s Office of Science, will begin […]

Three Palestinian students from universities in the Gaza strip spoke at UCLA on Wednesday about their experiences living under Israeli military occupation. Hekmat Bessiso, Adel El-Ghoul and Mustafa Al-Kayali are student activists against the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. The event, which was put on by UCLA’s United Arab Society with the […]

A series of data thefts at the University of California over the past two years that compromised the personal information of hundreds of thousands of students and Californians has pushed administrators to investigate new security measures and prompted Sen. Dianne Feinstein to propose new legislation. Feinstein (D-Calif.) is currently pushing legislation which would implement a […]

The University of California has not said whether it will bid to retain management of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, but both the university and its possible rivals are gearing up for competition. As the UC Board of Regents continues to wait for the final request for proposals, which is expected this month, the UC […]

Two years ago today, the first U.S. soldiers were killed in action in Iraq. Since then, 1,519 U.S. soldiers have died, thousands of Iraqi civilians have been caught in the crossfire, and the effects of the U.S.-led invasion, which began March 20, 2003, have been felt around the world. Geoff Garrett, vice provost of the […]