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UC Berkeley grants suspended over ‘foreign funding.’ Some researchers say they didn’t take any.

When the National Science Foundation suspended nearly $21 million in research grants to UC Berkeley last month, it charged the projects’ principal investigators with failing to disclose funding they received from outside the United States.

 

The Indigenous exhibit that Trump failed to stop

A group of local Indigenous leaders and Lawrence Hall of Science researchers strolled through the lobby of the discovery-based UC Berkeley museum last week as workers put the finishing touches on its latest exhibit, “Yuutka” (The Place of the Acorn).

 

Trump administration again suspends UC Berkeley research grants

The National Science Foundation suspended at least 18 research grants to UC Berkeley in April despite a court injunction restricting such suspensions, according to an attorney representing university scientists in a class action lawsuit.

 

At science fair, UC Berkeley researchers lobby for $23B bond to offset President Trump’s cuts

Scarlet Sands-Bliss, a Ph.D. student at UC Berkeley, typically gets up at 6 a.m. to make the drive to rural Lake County, where she’s researching how community members can prepare for extreme heat events.

 

Defying a nationwide trend, UC Berkeley enrolled more new international students this year

UC Berkeley’s ability to draw international students appears little affected by the national political scene.

 

Graduate student workers want University of California to create a legal aid fund for immigrants

Graduate student workers are making an unusual request in their contract negotiations with the University of California: a legal fund to help them navigate visa issues.