Ben Krasnow

June 2, 2005

Mutant Worms Aid Hunt for Cancer Cure

By Ben Krasnow

Transferring decade-old live worms frozen in liquid nitrogen with a U-Haul truck may seem a little strange, but it is all part of the research happening in a UCSB lab that may help scientists understand how cells work.

May 25, 2005

Biologists Link Blindness to Gene

By Ben Krasnow

Biologists at UCSB recently published research that identified a gene responsible for the most common form of irreversible elderly blindness in developed countries.

May 17, 2005

Business Plans Bring in Bucks

By Ben Krasnow

From doubling the speed of wireless Internet access to a proposal to sell lottery tickets from ATMs, eight teams of students presented their best ideas Monday night during the 6th Annual Business Plan Competition, hosted...

April 13, 2005

Faculty Member Wins Research Excellence Prize

By Ben Krasnow

Using a laser beam to chisel light passageways through exotic semiconducting material, researcher Evelyn Hu helped secure this year's highest UCSB faculty honor. A committee of faculty chose Hu last month to receive the ...

March 30, 2005

MRI Scanner To Aid Scientists in Brain Studies

By Ben Krasnow

In a deep hole next to the UCSB Psychology Building, construction continues on a facility to house a machine that will help researchers peer inside working human brains.

February 15, 2005

Effort To Control Insects Focuses on Environment

By Ben Krasnow

Personnel at UCSB's Environmental Health and Safety Dept. have been developing a plan known as Integrated Pest Management (IPM), a plan that designers say will cause minimal environmental impact while reducing the risk p...

January 21, 2005

Artificial Cells Shed Light on Life

By Ben Krasnow

Albert Libchaber, a professor of physics visiting from Rockefeller University, gave a talk at the UCSB Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP) on Wednesday about his latest research into artificially creating cell...

January 14, 2005

‘Tsunamiready’ Status Holds Water

By Ben Krasnow

The Santa Barbara Channel contains unstable underwater cliffs that, if upset by a small earthquake, could produce a tsunami headed for UCSB at over 500 miles per hour.

January 6, 2005

Researchers Envision Retina Repair

By Ben Krasnow

UCSB researchers have discovered a simple treatment that has the potential to help some of the 20,000 people each year who experience a loss of vision because of retinal detachment.

November 19, 2004

New Guide Helps the Blind Play It by Ear

By Ben Krasnow

Global positioning systems have been available in hand-held units for over 15 years, but as a result of current research at UCSB, a navigation system that includes a specialized audio interface may soon help guide people...

November 18, 2004

Watch Your Back – Google’s on the Loose

By Ben Krasnow

Google has tried hard and finally succeeded at becoming UCSB's biggest supplier of spam; and I'm not talking about the dining commons' stash of canned meat.

November 16, 2004

Group Visits Prize-winning Spacecraft

By Ben Krasnow

A group of engineering students traveled to the Mojave Desert on Friday to see the spaceship that made history by winning the Ansari X Prize last month.

November 12, 2004

Physics World Praises Work of UCSB Professor

By Ben Krasnow

Spintronics sounds like a Harlem Globetrotter trick, but it is actually a branch of physics in which a UCSB professor has received a nationally recognized prize and published a landmark paper.

October 29, 2004

Alcohol: From Blackouts to Poisoning

By Ben Krasnow

Throughout history, alcohol has been used as a sterilizing agent, anesthetic, industrial fuel and household cleaner, in addition to being consumed for over 5,000 years by people looking to get hammered.

October 27, 2004

Crowds May Clog Cell Network

By Ben Krasnow

UCSB and Isla Vista's enormous volume of cellular phone traffic - which normally exceeds that of Los Angeles International Airport and the entire state of Hawaii - will likely cause communication problems this Halloween ...

October 18, 2004

Society Bestows Award to UCSB Ph.D. Student

By Ben Krasnow

A UCSB doctoral student is winning an award this week for his research on carbon fiber - a material used in everything from cell phone covers to fighter jets.