COMMUNITY NEWS BAGEL BRIGADE'S BERMAN GETS COUNCIL'S RECOGNITION.The Sherman Oaks Neighborhood Council presented its inaugural Sherman Oaks Spotlight Award to Herman Berman, founder of the Bagel Brigade, a cadre of senior citizens who collect and distribute day-old baked goods to needy residents and community groups. Three researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles UCLA comprises the College of Letters and Science (the primary undergraduate college), seven professional schools, and five professional Health Science schools. Since 2001, UCLA has enrolled over 33,000 total students, and that number is steadily rising. , and one from California State University, Northridge CSUN offers a variety of programs leading to bachelor's degrees in 61 fields and master's degrees in 42 fields. The university has over 150,000 alumni. It's also home to a summer musical theater/theater program known as TADW (TeenAge Drama Workshop) that leads teenagers through an , will share a $1.3 million grant to study ways to improve the nano-scale technology used in cell phones and other electronics. The money from the National Science Foundation is intended to support interdisciplinary research into the microscopic technology, which is also used in iPods, laptop computers and video games. The members of the research team are CSUN CSUN California State University Northridge physics professor Nicholas Kioussis, and UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX materials scientist King-Ning Tu, mechanical and aerospace engineering professor Nasr Ghoniem and materials science and engineering Materials science and engineering A multidisciplinary field concerned with the generation and application of knowledge relating to the composition, structure, and processing of materials to their properties and uses. professor Jenn-Ming Yang. In addition, Charles Hatfield, an assistant professor of English at CSUN, has been named the Jerome Richfield Memorial Scholar, awarded for the study of arts, sciences or humanities. The city of Glendale received two awards earlier this month from the League of California Cities, which works on behalf of the state's 477 municipalities. The League Partners Award recognizes Glendale's Mariposa Neighborhood Improvement Project, while the Ruth Vreeland Award for Engaging Youth in City Government was presented to the city's Junior Ambassadors Program. Girl Scout Troop 266 in Van Nuys donated $350 raised during its cookie drive to the American Red Cross American Red Cross: see Red Cross. , Humane Society and Habitat for Humanity Habitat for Humanity, nonprofit ecumenical Christian organization that enables low-income people to own affordable, livable housing. Headquartered in Americus, Ga., it was founded in 1976 by businessman Millard Fuller and his wife. to aid victims of Hurricane Katrina. Andy Maltz of Sherman Oaks, chief technologist for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, has been appointed to a national committee that will advise the U.S. government's National Archives on the storage and preservation of electronic records. |
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