In the weeks leading up to the new school year, a medley of conversations in different languages filled the courtyard outside of Kerckhoff Hall. Read more...

Aiming to provide more campus space for student use, Ackerman Student Union will be open until 1 a.m. Mondays through Thursdays beginning fall quarter. Read more...

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Ackerman Union is extending its hours for certain food venues and study locations, appealing to late-night studying students. Restaurant expenses will not be increasing and students will not have to pay additional fees to help maintain the change.

Although the technology and capability of computers to produce digital art has improved dramatically over the years, the core of Jennifer Steinkamp's classes has remained the same since the late 1990s. Read more...

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Design | Media Arts professor Jennifer Steinkamp introduces students to projecting computer-created sculptures in physical spaces.

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.