The UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science held a celebration of life Feb. 19 in honor of Ioanna Kakoulli, a professor of materials science and engineering, who died Jan.

When Diana Rinza was a bilingual medical interpreter, she worked with a 16-year-old boy who was facing anxiety, depression and difficulty participating in school
Rinza said the patient’s mom – who was undocumented and had stage four lung cancer – was struggling to pay rent and take care of her health.

The department of statistics and data science has a new teaching aide – only, it isn’t human.
Thomas Maierhofer, a lecturer in the department of statistics and data science, developed an artificial intelligence teaching aide to use in his Statistics 10 and 20 classes.

Hundreds of Bruins crept out of their dorms Tuesday at midnight, ready to participate in an annual tradition.
The students rushed to the Intramural Field, forming a line that they would wait in for hours to secure spots in the student section of Pauley Pavilion to watch the UCLA men’s basketball game against the University of Southern California on Tuesday.

This post was updated March 1 at 10:03 p.m.
About 70 people attended a walkout Friday to protest heightened immigration enforcement activity in the United States and to show support for migrant workers.

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 1:18 p.m.
As many as 1 million Medi-Cal patients could lose their health coverage due to recent state and Los Angeles County budget constraints, Martha Santana-Chin said in a panel at the 12th annual VITALS Conference on Feb.