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.

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.

Russell Shank, UCLA's head librarian from 1977 to 1989, died June 26 at the UC Irvine Medical Center. Read more...

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Russell Shank