Jacqueline Wen

May 22, 2020

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

By Jacqueline Wen

The phenomenon of unusual sleep experiences during the pandemic may be due to “emotional overloading,” according to Professor Steve Smith.

May 16, 2020

Goleta Beach Water Quality Deteriorated After 2018 Montecito Mudslide Cleanup Efforts

By Jacqueline Wen

UC Santa Barbara researchers examined the possible impacts of sediment disposal on the water quality at Goleta Beach.

April 21, 2020

UCSB Researchers Demonstrate Potential of Antibody-Measurement Technique Using HIV Samples

By Jacqueline Wen

Antibodies are crucial diagnostic biomarkers that can inform a quick diagnosis of a medical condition in an individual.

April 20, 2020

“I think we’re all trying to help out as much as we can”: UCSB Researchers Utilize Resources To Help Fight Coronavirus

By Sofía Mejías-Pascoe, Jacqueline Wen

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.

April 9, 2020

Re-examining Remote Kelp Forests After 45 Years

By Jacqueline Wen

Studying kelp forests in remote areas could allow investigators to tease apart human impacts from natural changes.

April 2, 2020

UCSB Receives NSF Grant To Train a New Generation of Data Scientists

By Jacqueline Wen

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.

March 31, 2020

Better Together: The Evolution of Commitment and Altruism in Relationships

By Jacqueline Wen

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?

March 26, 2020

UCSB Researcher Investigates Strategies for Reducing Metastatic Potential of Cancer Cell Clusters

By Jacqueline Wen

Boddy and her colleagues studied how circulating tumor cell clusters of varying sizes and densities would fare when facing different levels of microenvironmental threats.

March 18, 2020

Researchers Assess Ability of Warm and Cold Range Edges To Track Climate Change

By Jacqueline Wen

The group tested several hypotheses that may explain the shift in a species’ distribution.

March 9, 2020

“Portrait of a Lady on Fire” Crafts a Smoldering Love Story

By Jacqueline Wen

“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.

March 5, 2020

UCSB Researchers Investigate Cause of Sodium Dysregulation in Migraine

By Jacqueline Wen

Identifying the cause of disturbances in brain sodium levels may inform potential migraine treatment.

February 20, 2020

National Society of Black Engineers at UCSB Provides Black S.T.E.M. Students “Encouragement” and “Knowledge”

By Jacqueline Wen

NSBE also frequently collaborates with another MESA engineering program partner, Los Ingenieros, as well as UCSB’s College of Engineering.

February 13, 2020

UCSB Researchers Develop Controlled Phage Therapy Techniques, Potential Alternative to Antibiotics

By Jacqueline Wen

"Our work is geared toward bringing phage therapy under control so that it can be used safely and more widely,” Irene Chen said.

January 30, 2020

Neuroscientists Find Categorization Influences May Begin in Earliest Stages of Visual System

By Jacqueline Wen

The results appeared to indicate that the effects of categorization were “basically immediate," Sprague said.

January 16, 2020

Seeing the Forest AND the Trees: Predicting Forest Responses to Contrasting Climate Change Influences

By Jacqueline Wen

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

January 9, 2020

Researchers Study Hawaiian Volcano Kilauea’s Destructive 2018 Eruption

By Jacqueline Wen

Scientists’ understanding of collapsing volcanic calderas had been severely limited by poorly-documented caldera-forming eruptions up until this 2018 outburst.