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UCLA Enters Talks to Restore $584 Million in Frozen Research Grants

Negotiations aim to reverse a funding freeze that threatens UCLA’s medical and scientific research.

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - JULY 30: People walk on the plaza outside Royce Hall, the site of 2024 pro-Palestinian protests, on the UCLA campus on July 30, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. The University of California, Los Angeles has reached a $6 million settlement with Jewish students and a professor in a lawsuit alleging discrimination over the 2024 pro-Palestinian campus protests. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)
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Overview

  • Federal agencies have suspended $584 million in extramural awards at UCLA, representing more than half of the university’s annual federal funding.
  • At least 800 individual grants across disciplines from neuroscience to clean energy have been frozen, prompting Chancellor Julio Frenk to warn of profound research setbacks.
  • UC President James B. Milliken said the university has agreed to engage in dialogue with federal officials to restore all suspended and at-risk funding as soon as possible.
  • The Justice Department’s letter gives UCLA until Sept. 2 to reach an agreement or face a federal lawsuit over alleged deliberate indifference to Jewish and Israeli students’ complaints.
  • Peer institutions Brown and Columbia have reached settlements that returned hundreds of millions in blocked grants in exchange for financial payments and federal oversight provisions.