A little after 6 p.m., the plane "“ a single-engine Cessna 210 "“ crashed on the corner of Glendon and Mississippi avenues, said Brian Humphrey, a spokesman at the Los Angeles Fire Department. Read more...
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A small plane crashed into a residential neighborhood on the corner of Glendon and Mississippi avenues on Friday, killing the pilot.
Dr. Moses A. Greenfield, a professor emeritus in the David Geffen School of Medicine and co-founder of the biomedical physics graduate program at UCLA, died July 27 in New York. He was 97. Read more...
The Undergraduate Students Association Council is the official student government of UCLA's undergraduate students. Council meetings are Tuesdays at 7 p.m. in Kerckhoff 417 and are open to all students. Read more...
As a single mother, Katrina Griffiths had little time to dream of advancing her career through education. She dedicated her life to raising her three children "“ one of whom is mute and has cerebral palsy, a non-progressive motor systems disability "“ all while balancing two jobs as a massage therapist and child care professional. Read more...
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Katrina Griffiths, 50, received a scholarship from Empowered UCLA Extension, to pay for her tuition for the online program, which starts this September. Griffiths is a single mother from New Jersey with three children, two of whom are pictured here.
Students will encounter higher prices when purchasing their textbooks on Amazon.com for their classes this fall. Read more...
Using a modern microfilm viewer, Camilla Harris examined notes from interviews with victims of atomic bomb radiation during World War II, stored in the university library's special collections. Read more...
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A surgical kit from before 1862 rests on a table in Powell Library as a part of a display called “Development of Medicine – From Experiment to Practice.” Pop-out textbooks about human anatomy are also in the exhibit.
The UCLA Division of Humanities and the International Institute received a grant of $750,000 last month from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Read more...
