About 300 people attended the 2026 Innovate Tech Conference at UCLA on Friday to learn about how entrepreneurs can use autonomous artificial intelligence. The conference featured speakers with experience using agentic AI, including Mihir Vaidya, the chief strategy officer of Electronic Arts, and Gene Alston, an Ancestry.com board member. Read more...
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February 11, 4:34 pm
VA keeps Jackie Robinson Stadium lease, terminates 3 other West LA agreements
UCLA’s Jackie Robinson Stadium can remain on the Department of Veterans Affairs’ West Los Angeles campus but three other institutions must go, the VA announced Monday. Read more...
A Closer Look, Academics, California, Campus, Los Angeles, News, Science & Health
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February 8, 8:30 am
Statistics and data science symposium hosts early-career scientists
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. Read more...
California, Los Angeles, National, News
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February 7, 10:43 pm
Luskin School holds panel on civil and immigrant rights, prosecuting ICE agents
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. Read more...
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February 5, 2:21 pm
Car crashes into 99 Ranch Market, killing at least 3 people, injuring at least 6
This post was updated Feb. 5 at 11:36 p.m. A car crashed into the 99 Ranch Market on Westwood Boulevard on Thursday, killing three people and injuring at least six. Two blocks of Westwood Boulevard – from Wilkins Avenue to Wellworth Avenue – were completely blocked off as of 1:50 p.m., along with the intersecting block of Rochester Avenue. Read more...
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February 3, 11:07 pm
LA County Sheriffs yet to ban license plate data sharing with federal agencies
Los Angeles County Sheriffs have not banned sharing license plate data with immigration enforcement agencies, despite a 2016 law prohibiting state police from sharing these images with the federal government. Read more...
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February 2, 7:48 pm
Epstein files reveal emails between alumnus Casey Wasserman and Ghislaine Maxwell
This post was updated Feb. 3 at 11:01 p.m. UCLA donor and alumnus Casey Wasserman exchanged emails with Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell in the early 2000s, according to the latest release of the Epstein files. Read more...