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Final Exam: Canceled. How Strikes have Impacted the UC System
Final Exam: Canceled. How Strikes have Impacted the UC System

Within the last week of Fall Quarter, professors have been rolling out updates about the final exams and end-of-quarter assignments in consideration of the UC-wide academic worker strike that has persisted since Nov. 14. In acknowledgment of unfair labor practices and low wages in relation to high cost of living, members of the academic union swept the California campuses, administrators’ homes, and Sacramento streets in the past month. A mass strike halts grading, discussion sections, and all regular functions that allow undergraduate students to receive grades and move on to the next quarter without financial or academic conflict.

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Campus, State, FeaturedKatherine BoyceStrike, UC, University of California Office of the President, university of california, ASUCD Senate, UAW, finals, Davis Political Review, Sacramento, Memorial Union, academic boycott, Nour Taha, Andy Essa, Katherine BoyceComment
The Role of University of California in Access to Medicines
The Role of University of California in Access to Medicines

While there has been increasing awareness more than ever about unethical Big Pharma, many people are unaware about the role of universities in the drug delivery pipeline. They are crucial in the discovery process and are often the root of unfair licensing and patenting practices. A study conducted to assess the contribution universities have to pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies showed that of the 252 drugs approved by the FDA between 1998 and 2007, 24% of the drugs were discovered at a university.

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State, FeaturedAkshitha Mamidivaccine, covid-19, COVID, university of california, UC, big pharma, scienceComment