Word: ucla
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...history concentrator in Dunster House. His interest in drawing began in the Nebraska public school system, carried on through his freshman year at UCLA during 2,000 student classes, and now thrives as he takes classes in the core. While his art has traditionally focused primarily on ninjas fighting aliens, he will be making weekly exceptions as his editorial cartoon appear every Tuesday...
...nation's élite, most desirable campuses. Harvard, Yale and M.I.T. have their counterparts on the left coast in the University of California, Berkeley; Stanford; and Caltech. These campuses are certainly not inferior to the Ivy League campuses, and one of them is a public institution. D. BLAIR GIBSON UCLA, B.A. '78, PH.D. '90 EL CAMINO COLLEGE Torrance, Calif...
...artist who rose to fame in the 1990s art scene; of heart failure; in Los Angeles. His most recent installations were a riotous clash of civilizations in which visitors became part of his work, in a gallery transformed "like Ali Baba's cave," said Gary Garrels, senior curator at UCLA's Hammer Museum, "with neon lights, rugs, Mexican tourist souvenirs, American Indian dream catchers, hookah pipes ... Every cultural ideal was up for challenge...
Sexual orientation influences your paycheck too, says Gary Gates, a senior research fellow at the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law. "Gay men in particular have earnings similar to other men, but partnered gay men have earnings quite substantially below men who partner with women." Gates has a theory about the disparity: "Being gay has impact, particularly on the executive level. You can't go to the golf club with your wife. Your wife can't entertain the spouses...
Researchers in Thailand have taken stem cells from the blood of cardiac patients, grown the cells in a lab and reinjected them into patients' hearts, where they set about repairing damage. Two UCLA researchers last week published a study demonstrating that they could transform adult stem cells from fat tissue into smooth-muscle cells, which assist in the function of numerous organs. Welcome as the advances are, the subject of adult stem cells is highly political and invites a conflation of real hopes and false ones. "There are papers that have claimed broad uses for certain adult stem cells...