On September 24, 2025, Vice Chancellor for Research & Creative Activities Roger M. Wakimoto announced the 2025-2026 UCLA Faculty Research Lectures.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has retroactively reinstated grants to UCLA that were suspended on July 31, 2025.

On September 15, 2025, Chancellor Julio Frenk shared a message from President Milliken to the UC Community regarding the suspension of federal research funding.

Vice Chancellor for Academic Personnel Michael S. Levine and Vice Chancellor for Research & Creative Activities Roger M. Wakimoto sent reminders to all eligible faculty members to use the UC Outside Activity Tracking System (OATS.) 

A federal judge has ruled that the U.S. government must restore National Science Foundation (NSF) grants to UCLA. 

On August 8, 2025, Chancellor Julio Frenk shared an update related to UCLA's federal research funding. 

On August 5, 2025, Vice Chancellor for Research and Creative Activities Roger M. Wakimoto, shared a recent concern of rising Malign Foreign Talent Recruitment Programs (MFTRPs). 

On June 6, 2025, UCLA Professor Michael E. Jung gave his Faculty Research Lecture titled Drug Discovery in Academia: Some Success Stories.