Having Vivid or Bad Dreams During the Pandemic? You’re Not Alone

May 22, 2020 by

The phenomenon of unusual sleep experiences during the pandemic may be due to “emotional overloading,” according to Professor Steve Smith.
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Goleta Beach Water Quality Deteriorated After 2018 Montecito Mudslide Cleanup Efforts

May 16, 2020 by

UC Santa Barbara researchers examined the possible impacts of sediment disposal on the water quality at Goleta Beach.
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UCSB Researchers Demonstrate Potential of Antibody-Measurement Technique Using HIV Samples

April 21, 2020 by

Antibodies are crucial diagnostic biomarkers that can inform a quick diagnosis of a medical condition in an individual.
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“I think we’re all trying to help out as much as we can”: UCSB Researchers Utilize Resources To Help Fight Coronavirus

April 20, 2020 by and

The production of face shields on campus is just one example of how skilled students, researchers and scientists are uniting to help the community through the coronavirus pandemic.
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Re-examining Remote Kelp Forests After 45 Years

April 9, 2020 by

Studying kelp forests in remote areas could allow investigators to tease apart human impacts from natural changes.
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UCSB Receives NSF Grant To Train a New Generation of Data Scientists

April 2, 2020 by

To foster student engagement in data science education and outreach, the National Science Foundation’s Central Coast Data Science Initiative has awarded UCSB nearly $920,000 over three years.
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Better Together: The Evolution of Commitment and Altruism in Relationships

March 31, 2020 by

The paper aimed to answer two questions: Why do people care about the commitment of others, and why do we use gifts and other acts of kindness to display our own commitment?
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UCSB Researcher Investigates Strategies for Reducing Metastatic Potential of Cancer Cell Clusters

March 26, 2020 by

Boddy and her colleagues studied how circulating tumor cell clusters of varying sizes and densities would fare when facing different levels of microenvironmental threats.
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Researchers Assess Ability of Warm and Cold Range Edges To Track Climate Change

March 18, 2020 by

The group tested several hypotheses that may explain the shift in a species’ distribution.
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“Portrait of a Lady on Fire” Crafts a Smoldering Love Story

March 9, 2020 by

“Portrait of a Lady on Fire” is a poignant, brilliantly realized story about love. But more specifically, it is a beautiful meditation on the memory of love.
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UCSB Researchers Investigate Cause of Sodium Dysregulation in Migraine

March 5, 2020 by

Identifying the cause of disturbances in brain sodium levels may inform potential migraine treatment.
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National Society of Black Engineers at UCSB Provides Black S.T.E.M. Students “Encouragement” and “Knowledge”

February 20, 2020 by

NSBE also frequently collaborates with another MESA engineering program partner, Los Ingenieros, as well as UCSB’s College of Engineering.
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UCSB Researchers Develop Controlled Phage Therapy Techniques, Potential Alternative to Antibiotics

February 13, 2020 by

"Our work is geared toward bringing phage therapy under control so that it can be used safely and more widely,” Irene Chen said.
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Neuroscientists Find Categorization Influences May Begin in Earliest Stages of Visual System

January 30, 2020 by

The results appeared to indicate that the effects of categorization were “basically immediate," Sprague said.
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Seeing the Forest AND the Trees: Predicting Forest Responses to Contrasting Climate Change Influences

January 16, 2020 by

The study published in PNAS investigated how forests are responding to global warming and rising atmospheric carbon dioxide.
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