Tuesday, June 17

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. Read more...

Photo: The second annual Healthcare Analytics Symposium was held at the UCLA Anderson School of Management. (Daily Bruin file photo)


LA City Council approves revised budget with reduced layoffs, public safety funds

The Los Angeles City Council finalized and approved a revised version of Mayor Karen Bass’ $13.9 billion budget proposal Friday for this coming fiscal year. The city currently faces a nearly $1 billion budget deficit caused by overspending, liability payouts, lower tax revenue, labor contracts, scheduled city official raises and fire recovery, among other factors, according to ABC7 LA. Read more...

Photo: Los Angeles City Hall is pictured. The LA City Council approved a revised version of Mayor Karen Bass’ $13.9 billion budget proposal Friday. (Daily Bruin file photo)


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. Read more...

Photo: The David Geffen School of Medicine is pictured. (Daily Bruin file photo)


UCLA Epicenter provides students with innovative industry experience

Raffi Simonian wanted to give students experience in solving real-world business and technology problems. That’s why he decided to lead the UCLA Epicenter, which partners with companies to create quarterly Innovation Challenges – hands-on projects where student teams try to solve real world issues in fields like data science, marketing, e-commerce and sales – said Simonian, the program’s director. Read more...

Photo: Simonian presenting the format of the 2023 Fall Innovation Challenge to students interested in participating. Simonian leads the UCLA Epicenter, which partners with companies to create quarterly Innovation Challenges. (Courtesy of UCLA Epicenter)


LA Metro discusses costs of Sepulveda Transit Corridor alternatives at May meeting

Los Angeles Metro officials discussed preliminary costs and scheduling for the Sepulveda Transit Corridor Project at a May community meeting Thursday. The meeting, held at the Westwood United Methodist Church, included information stations about the different stages of the Sepulveda Transit Corridor Project – a plan to expand accessible public transit from the San Fernando Valley to West LA through the Sepulveda Pass – as well as a presentation and Q&A session with LA Metro. Read more...

Photo: Community meeting attendees hear a presentation about costs and scheduling for the Sepulveda Transit Corridor Project. The LA Metro plans to connect the Westside and San Fernando Valley through either a monorail or heavy rail transit route. (Gabrielle Gillette/Daily Bruin senior staff)



Los Angeles Metro names new chief to lead in-house police force

This post was updated June 1 at 11:59 p.m. Los Angeles Metro will soon have its first chief of police and emergency management. Metro announced in a May 7 statement that William Scott, who was the San Francisco Police Department’s chief for eight years and worked for LAPD for 27 years, will lead the new Transit Community Public Safety Department. Read more...

Photo: A Los Angeles Metro train waits at a station. Metro appointed its first chief of police and emergency management in May. (Daily Bruin file photo)



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