Hundreds of faculty, staff and students gathered on Sproul Plaza at UC Berkeley to decry the Trump administration’s slashing of university research funding, its crackdown on diversity

As the Trump administration threatens to pull federal funds from universities, including for medical and scientific research, the University of California has announced a hiring freeze and additional cuts.

The University of California has imposed a system-wide hiring freeze and made additional cuts, its president said on Wednesday, as part of efforts to try to mitigate the impact of sharp cuts in federal funding.