A state senator introduced a bill last month to formally recognize artificial intelligence as a research concentration at UC research institutes.
If passed, Senate Bill 607 would allow one of the four California Institutes for Science and Innovation – which are multidisciplinary research institutes on UC campuses – to add AI as a concentration.

This post was updated March 3 at 10:34 p.m.
Red Darby never expected to be accepted to UCLA, especially as a transfer student coming from Columbia College.

A federal judge issued a temporary ruling Monday that blocked a California law banning federal immigration enforcement officers from wearing masks.
The masking law, which was signed as part of a package of five laws restricting immigration agents in September, went into effect Jan.

Researchers celebrated the role of numerical data in scientific research at a Jan. 26 event at the Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center.
The Lange Symposium on Computational Statics and Biomedical Data Science – hosted by the UCLA Department of Computational Medicine and Human Genetics – invited six speakers from across the country to discuss their research.

This post was updated Feb. 8 at 10:01 p.m.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta said California will prosecute federal immigration enforcement officers who violate residents’ constitutional rights at a Thursday UCLA event.

The California Department of Cannabis Control gave UCLA four grants in January totaling $7.3 million for cannabis research.
These grants will fund four research studies that will allow UCLA to develop the science and evidence to help guide public policy related to cannabis availability, safety and accessibility, said Ziva Cooper, a professor-in-residence of psychiatry and behavioral sciences.

This post was updated Feb. 6 at 2:06 p.m.
Odalis Rojas grew up in an agricultural community in Ventura County, where she saw her farm worker father, uncles and cousins face various health care barriers.