California
June 30, 2025 4:48 p.m.
Carolina Buhler, a rising fourth-year UCLA student, is pictured. Buhler is running to be California’s next governor. (Courtesy of Carolina Buhler)
A UCLA student is running to be California’s next governor.
Carolina Buhler, a rising fourth-year earth and environmental science student, announced Monday that she will enter California’s 2026 gubernatorial race as a Democrat.
By Alexandra Crosnoe
California
June 19, 2025 10:40 a.m.The California State Legislature rejected Gov. Gavin Newsom’s proposed funding cuts to the UC in its June 9 revision of the state budget.
The legislature passed a state budget amounting to $325 billion Friday, rejecting Newsom’s proposed cuts of $129.7 million to the UC.
By Micah Hoffman
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June 8, 2025 6:43 p.m.‘A man of action’: UC Board of Regents appoints James Milliken as UC president
This post was updated Jun 10 at 2:00 p.m.
James Milliken is no stranger to leading a university.
Milliken, who has worked in higher education since 1988, previously led the University of Nebraska, the City University of New York and the University of Texas systems.
By Alexandra Crosnoe
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June 5, 2025 12:56 a.m.UCLA students exchange AI-driven data solutions in Healthcare Analytics Symposium
Students, researchers and health care leaders convened for the second annual Healthcare Analytics Symposium at the UCLA Anderson School of Management on May 16.
Hosted by the Morrison Family Center for Marketing and Data Analytics and the UCLA Anderson’s Master of Science in Business Analytics program, participants at the symposium shared perspectives on potential solutions to health care’s most complex data management problems.
By Maanasi Kademani
California
June 3, 2025 10:25 p.m.Medical community claims unilateral UCLA leadership support in Israel-Hamas war
On Oct. 16, 2023 – nine days after an attack by Palestinian political party and militant group Hamas killed around 1,200 people in Israel, and more than 2,700 Palestinians were killed by Israeli retaliatory airstrikes – UCLA Health administrative leaders sent an email to the medical community.
By Anna Dai-Liu
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May 21, 2025 12:29 a.m.UCLA experts share concerns over background of RFK Jr. as Secretary of HHS
UCLA researchers and policy experts said United States Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. lacks qualifications for his role and could derail American research and public health efforts.
By Josephine Murphy
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May 20, 2025 8:23 p.m.Experts discuss AI implications following Trump administration executive order
Artificial intelligence experts at UCLA said AI deregulation creates cultural challenges and has significant business implications following a Trump administration executive order.
One of President Donald Trump’s executive orders – executive order 14179 – passed in January and revoked previous AI regulation policies that he described as “barriers to American AI innovation.” Titled “Removing Barriers to American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence,” the order places a high emphasis on global leadership and competition and deregulating AI.
By Amy L. Wong
California
May 20, 2025 2:00 p.m.California Sens. Alex Padilla, Adam Schiff condemn student visa revocations
This post was updated May 20 at 11:07 p.m.
Both of California’s United States Senators condemned the Trump administration’s revocations of student visas in a Tuesday letter to U.S.
By Josephine Murphy
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May 19, 2025 9:59 p.m.UCLA research programs hit by EPA cuts amid national changes to climate policy
UCLA researchers and policy experts expressed concerns about the qualifications of new Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin.
Since his appointment, Zeldin has overseen the rollback of 31 environmental regulations and has attempted to revise the EPA’s 2009 findings that greenhouse gases endanger public health, according to an EPA press release.
By Yashila Suresh and Evelin Zaragoza Meza
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