Jacqueline Wen

Jacqueline serves as the Science and Tech Editor. She enjoys watching movies and learning about science and tech.

June 6, 2019

Isla Vista Compost Collective Plans to Double Composting Service for Fall 2019

By Jacqueline Wen

Each week, “Dirtriders” on bikes with a cargo trailer attached pick up buckets filled with food product from their designated houses. Then, they drop off a new, clean five-gallon bucket for their houses to compost in...

May 30, 2019

Marine Species More Vulnerable to Global Warming Than Terrestrial Species

By Jacqueline Wen

In addition, McCauley and his colleagues found that local species extinctions in the ocean occurred at twice the rate than those on land.

May 23, 2019

Friends with Health Benefits

By Jacqueline Wen

Meaningful relationships “nurture a desire to create and/or seize life opportunities for growth,” and in doing so, promote development and exploration.

May 16, 2019

UCSB Researchers Discover Potentially Druggable Pathway Involved in Neurodegenerative Diseases

By Jacqueline Wen

"A new pathway exists that can potentially be targeted for drug delivery that can improve the lives of patients of these neurodegenerative diseases in a relatively short amount of time."

May 9, 2019

The ‘Invisible’ Pollution of Plastics

By Jacqueline Wen

UCSB researchers performed the first global-scale study focusing on the impact of plastics on climate change.

May 2, 2019

UCSB’s Bridge to the Doctorate Program

By Jacqueline Wen

The Bridge to the Doctorate program aims to “enhance the diversity of STEM graduate education by recruiting, enrolling, training and graduating a cohort of 12 talented doctoral students."

April 25, 2019

UCSB Researchers Investigate Factors Affecting Gasoline Price Variability in Santa Barbara County

By Jacqueline Wen

April 18, 2019

UCSB Researchers Find Novel Genetic Mutation for Alzheimer’s Disease

By Jacqueline Wen

A second Colombian family with a novel mutation on the same gene for inherited Alzheimer’s disease had been discovered.

April 11, 2019

The Future of Protein?

By Jacqueline Wen

Switching to plant-based and cell-based foods would significantly reduce land and water use and emissions compared to their conventional animal counterparts.

April 4, 2019

UC Kicks Off Cool Campus Challenge for Month of April

By Jacqueline Wen

From April 1–26, all 10 UC campuses will be going head-to-head for all students, faculty and staff to “reduce UC’s carbon footprint and create a culture of sustainability across the campuses,” according to the Co...

March 28, 2019

Two UCSB Faculty Named 2019 Sloan Research Fellows

By Jacqueline Wen

UCSB’s Sloan Research Fellowship recipients are Thomas Sprague for neuroscience and Xin Zhou for mathematics.

March 7, 2019

First North American Occurrence of Rare Sunfish Discovered in Santa Barbara

By Jacqueline Wen

The rare hoodwinker sunfish's appearance in Santa Barbara marks the first ever sighting of this rare species in North America, and only the second time in the Northern Hemisphere in 130 years.

March 7, 2019

Food Partitioning Allows for Fish’s Pacific Coexistence

By Jacqueline Wen

Territorial damselfish populations can coexist on the same coral reefs by sharing food resources and switching diets to reduce competition.

February 28, 2019

Black Professors and Students Share How Their Identity Shapes Their Academic Experiences

By Jacqueline Wen

Four Black faculty and students at UCSB share their thoughts on how their identity affects their academic experiences.

February 14, 2019

‘Train Locally, Deploy Globally’ with AI

By Jacqueline Wen

To help scientists in “applying artificial intelligence (AI) to help understand and protect the planet”, Microsoft and National Geographic have partnered up to sponsor AI for Earth Innovation Grants.

February 7, 2019

UCSB Researcher Studies Carbon Storage in Soil

By Jacqueline Wen

“What we found that was really interesting was that the absorption capacity for carbon really depends on climate to a very great extent,” Chadwick said.