News Archive - January 2006
Grad Student Takes Spotlight
January 30, 2006
UCLA's high-profile position in stem cell science has not gone unnoticed in Sacramento. Top state politicians chose Westwood to hold a news conference last August to announce bipartisan opposition to a U.S. Senate bill that would place new limits on human embryonic stem cell research. ...more
More College Freshmen Committed to Social and Civic Responsibility, UCLA Survey Reveals
January 25, 2006
This year's entering college freshmen exhibit record increases in commitments to social and civic responsibility, according to the results of UCLA's annual survey of the nation's entering undergraduates. ...more
Opinion Piece by Speaker of the Assembly
January 20, 2006
Reaction to Governor's Budget. Please check our website for the latest on the State Budget and impact to UC....Read Article
President Robert C. Dynes Video Letter Transcript
January 10, 2006
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Statement on Bruin Alumni Association
January 20, 2006
Chancellor Carnesale statement on Bruin Alumni Association. ...Read Release
Governor Releases 2006-07 State Budget Plan, UC Funding Increased
January 10, 2006
Today the Governor released his 2006-07 State Budget Plan. This is the initial document that legislators, and the legislative analyst will work from to develop the final budget, later this year. The budget calls for a 3% increase to UC's base budget. In addition, the budget provides extra money to hold student fees at there 2005-06 levels ...more
Governor Proposes Freeze on Fees
January 6, 2006
In his State of the State address last night, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger proposed freezing University of California Graduate and Undergraduate student fees at 2004-05 levels. ...more The Education of a Mayor
January 5, 2006
What fuels the passionate, political, perpetual-motion machine that is Antonio Villaraigosa? One of the early sparks, say L.A.'s first latino mayor in 133 years, was UCLA. "UCLA was my first introduction to the diversity that's Los Angeles and to the world of books, "...more
Final Federal Relations Campus Update for 2005
January 3, 2006
Congress recently adjourned the 1st session of the 109th Congress. With time running out in the session, the House and Senate passed the last two remaining appropriations bills for Fiscal Year 2006 (FY06), approved a five week extension of the expiring Patriot Act provisions, and attempted to pass a multi-billion dollar cost-saving budget reduction bill. ...more
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