This post was updated Oct. 4 at 12:37 p.m.
A UCLA alumnus and a UCSF professor were awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine on Monday.

The Environmental Protection Agency awarded the University of California with a 2021 Green Power Leadership Award on Tuesday for its efforts to accelerate the transition to clean energy.

UCLA lecturer Gordon Klein filed a lawsuit Monday against the dean of the UCLA Anderson School of Management and University of California Board of Regents.
The lawsuit against Dean Antonio Bernardo and the UC Regents alleged the university’s conduct breached his employment contract, violated his right to privacy and amounted to retaliatory discrimination.

The California Public Employment Relations Board announced the University of California failed to recognize the UC Student Researchers United-UAW union.
On Sept. 2, the UC filed a letter with PERB where the University stated it was willing to recognize approximately 11,000 graduate student researchers, however, it found the inclusion of fellows and trainees in the union inappropriate.

The University of California should continue to make its student body more diverse despite the increase in minority students admitted in 2021, UCLA students and faculty said.

UCLA students and faculty members are urging the university to protect undocumented students after the inaction of the University of California and UCLA to address the ruling of a federal judge in Texas who declared the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program unlawful in July.

UCLA is prepared to require booster shots for the COVID-19 vaccine for all students as soon as this fall, according to campus officials.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorized booster shots of the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines for immunocompromised individuals Aug.