Mutant Worms Aid Hunt for Cancer Cure

June 2, 2005 by

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 understa...
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Biologists Link Blindness to Gene

May 25, 2005 by

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

May 17, 2005 by

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...
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Faculty Member Wins Research Excellence Prize

April 13, 2005 by

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 m...
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MRI Scanner To Aid Scientists in Brain Studies

March 30, 2005 by

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.
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Effort To Control Insects Focuses on Environment

February 15, 2005 by

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...
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Artificial Cells Shed Light on Life

January 21, 2005 by

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 artifi...
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‘Tsunamiready’ Status Holds Water

January 14, 2005 by

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.
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Researchers Envision Retina Repair

January 6, 2005 by

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.
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New Guide Helps the Blind Play It by Ear

November 19, 2004 by

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 so...
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Watch Your Back – Google’s on the Loose

November 18, 2004 by

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.
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Group Visits Prize-winning Spacecraft

November 16, 2004 by

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.
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Physics World Praises Work of UCSB Professor

November 12, 2004 by

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.
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Alcohol: From Blackouts to Poisoning

October 29, 2004 by

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 hammere...
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Crowds May Clog Cell Network

October 27, 2004 by

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 prob...
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