The future may have seemed bleak for a child growing up in a rough inner-city neighborhood, but in 1988, Brandie Henderson became one of 250 youth to be offered a Merrill Lynch scholarship. Read more...

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Brandie Henderson is the 2011-2012 president of the UCLA Staff Assembly.

More than 50 years ago, among bookshelves in the bottom floor of Powell Library, Ray Bradbury famously wrote "Fahrenheit 451" on a pay-by-half-hour typewriter. Read more...

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Café 451, a new restaurant opening in the Charles E. Young Research Library this fall, was named after the title of a book by author Ray Bradbury. Bradbury wrote “Fahrenheit 451″ on Powell Library’s lower floor.

UCLA administrators and department officials are seeking student input for course scheduling purposes with a recently launched tool that allows students to project their schedule of classes for the rest of the year. Read more...

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The Future Class Planner, a new feature now available on MyUCLA, allows students to project their class schedules for the rest of the school year.

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Public and private sector state leaders will come together this week to begin a search for solutions to funding issues across the educational system in California. Read more...

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Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, pictured in this Daily Bruin file photo, announced the creation of a working group on Sept. 2 to address higher education funding issues.

One UCLA graduate student is cutting mirrors out of her daily routine entirely. Read more...

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UCLA sociology graduate student Kjerstin Gruys is now five months into her yearlong experiment in staying mirror-free.

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