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Ever wonder why you feel so physically rotten when your date doesn't call the next day? It turns out that it's your brain rather than your heart that takes snubbing the hardest. Researchers at UCLA and Macquarie University in Australia have shown that physical pain and the more psychological pain of rejection are processed by the same areas of the brain. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, which records an active brain at work, they tracked college students as they played a three-person computer game designed to exclude one player. When a student was snubbed, two areas...
According to Ford, the University of Notre Dame just received “an enormous grant” to start an Irish language-based program, while schools such as UCLA and the Catholic University of America have resident Celticists but no official programs...
...Bontecou show that opened last week at the UCLA Hammer Museum is not just a retrospective; it's a rescue mission. A cross-country one too--in February it moves to the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art and then, remarkably, to the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, a place that rarely accepts exhibitions from outside but plainly wanted this one. Organized by Elizabeth A.T. Smith, chief curator at the Chicago M.C.A., with Ann Philbin, the director of UCLA Hammer, the show aims to restore Bontecou to the stature she walked away from. And it does. Starting...
...reunion’s final event, a dinner held at the Hyatt Regency hotel, HLS Dean Elena Kagan renewed her commitment to improving student life for all students on campus and keynote speaker William B. Rubenstein, Professor of Law at UCLA School of Law, said Harvard “could do much, much more” to support its GLBT students...
...report from UCLA's Chicano Studies Research Center found that American-born laborers in "brown-collar" jobs--that is, jobs disproportionately held by Hispanic immigrants--earn 11% less than workers in comparable occupations. The study says the limited political power of Hispanic cooks, painters and gardeners creates a wage drag. Says Chon Noriega, the center's director: "The only way we can address this inequity is to give Hispanics the same protections as other workers...