Welcome Back All Members meeting, October 12

On January 24, 2026, the UCLA Brain Research Institute, the UCLA Faculty Association, the Paramount Library, and the office of Assemblymember José Luis Solache held a Community Science Day at the Paramount Library. We were very happy to work together with Librarian Andrea Crow, Library Manager of the Paramount Library, to bring the excitement of science to families in Paramount. We were also very happy to work with Assemblymember Solache to build support for SB 895, principally co-authored by Assemblymember Solache, which will establish the California Foundation for Science and Health Research.

On November 18, 2025 during the meeting of the Regents on campus, we joined UC Unbowed, a new organization of UC alumni, to call on the Regents to not cave to the demands of the Trump administration.

On November 7, 2025, for the AAUP National Day of Action, we sponsored a panel discussion with Claudia Polsky (UC Berkeley Law) and Ariela Gross (UCLA Law) on the landmark Thakur v. Trump victory restoring $580 million in federal research grants to UCLA researchers and the next steps in the AAUP v. Trump case. Later that day we participated in the CUCFA Systemwide Town Hall, Fight for the Future of Higher Education, to discuss Trump’s threats to research, DEI, and healthcare, the erosion of shared governance, and how we can act together.

On October 12, 2025, we held a rally on the Tongva Steps to strategize future efforts given our successful legal effort to get the UC to release the Trump “demand letter.” The UC had gone to extensive efforts, appealing all the way to the Supreme Court of California, to prevent it from being released to the public.