On November 7, 2023, Vice Chancellor for Research & Creative Activities (ORCA) Roger M. Wakimoto and Faculty Chair of the Safety Oversight Committee Craig A. Merlic, informed Principal Investigators (PI) their obligation to ensure they do not leave hazardous materials or abandon their animals in the vivarium following their lab shutdown.

Vice Chancellor for Academic Personnel Michael S. Levine and Vice Chancellor for Research & Creative Activities Roger Wakimoto sent reminders to all eligible faculty members to use the UC Outside Activity Tracking System (OATS) to request prior approval and report outside professional activities performed.

On July 31, 2023, Interim Chief Information Security Officer Drake Chang advised faculty and staff to take precaution when sharing UCLA data with ChatGPT and other generative AI tools.

On June 28, 2023, Norman and Armena Powell University Librarian Virginia Steel announced UCLA Library’s Summer Digital Technologies Workshops. In collaboration with the Office of Advanced Research Computing (OARC) some of these workshops will showcase library content, while others introduce tools, methods and workflows in order to demonstrate ways to design research projects or processes from collecting (or finding) data.

On June 7, 2023, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Darnell Hunt announced that Jim Davis, vice provost for information technology and head of UCLA’s Office of Advance Research Computing (OARC), will step down from his role on June 30, 2023. OARC will join the Office of Research and Creative Activities (ORCA) led by Vice Chancellor Roger Wakimoto.