Daniel Saleh

October 22, 2013

Greenhouse Emissions Rise as Projects Aimed to Cool Are Placed on Back Burner

By Daniel Saleh

Despite continued and growing evidence of climate change, the disparity between the amount of effort required to slow the process and the amount of projects aimed at such a goal continues to grow.

April 29, 2013

Scientists Determine Cause of LED Efficiency Droop

By Daniel Saleh

A collaborative effort between materials researchers at UC Santa Barbara and at CNRS-École Polytechnique in France has determined that Auger recombination is the cause of the efficiency drop that light emitting diodes (...

March 5, 2013

The Passing of a Radioactive Dating Pioneer

By Daniel Saleh

Dr. Garniss H. Curtis, a UC Berkeley professor emeritus of earth and planetary science, died Dec. 18 in Orinda, California at the age of 93. Curtis’ work with other UC Berkeley professors and seismologists pioneered a ...

February 19, 2013

UCSB Researchers Conduct Study on Cocaine Addiction and Treatment

By Daniel Saleh

UC Santa Barbara researchers have found that the impaired brain function and learning difficulties that are caused by cocaine addiction can be treated and potentially cured. UCSB scientists Karen Szumlinski, Tod Kippin a...

October 30, 2012

UCSB Theoretical Physicist Receives Packard Fellowship

By Daniel Saleh

An assistant professor in the Department of Physics here at UC Santa Barbara has been awarded the Packard Fellowship for his research into discovering states of matter. Cenke Xu, a theoretical physicist who works without...

October 23, 2012

UCSC Study Shows Sea Otters Can Reduce Carbon Dioxide

By Daniel Saleh

Two UC Santa Cruz researchers have discovered that besides being adorable, a large number of sea otters can help reverse one of the main sources of global warming by assisting in the spread of sea kelp beds. UCSC profess...

October 2, 2012

UCSB Scientists Recieve Award For Artificial Pancreas Research

By Daniel Saleh

A team of researchers from UCSB and the Sansum Diabetes Research Institute were recently selected from a pool of 128 entrants to receive the 2nd Annual Wyss Institute IEEE EMBS Award for Translational Research for their ...

May 22, 2012

Updated Marine Mapping Program Near Completion

By Daniel Saleh

UCSB Marine Science Institute project scientist Will McClintock is currently completing SeaSketch, a new version of the free web-based marine mapping and spatial planning program, MarineMap. The program was relatively li...

May 15, 2012

UCSB Researchers Identify Semi-Conductor Polymers, Further Printable Electronics

By Daniel Saleh

UCSB researchers teamed up with North Carolina State physicists to determine why certain materials are better than others for use in printable electronics. Through the use of powerful X-rays that can be used to see down ...