Josh Braun

June 5, 2003

Labrat: Interdisciplinary Reseach is Excellent and Diverse

By Josh Braun

For those of you who used to follow my weekly column, you know that it was filled with random facts and strange out of the way statistics. I apologize in advance if that's what you were expecting.

May 28, 2003

UCSB Studies Link Alzheimer’s Disease, Macular Degeneration

By Josh Braun

The saying goes, "Out of sight, out of mind." And recent studies by UCSB researchers suggest there may be something to it.

May 16, 2003

Fisher Explores Electron ‘Dance’

By Josh Braun

Anyone with less than a master's degree visiting the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics immediately wants to disappear.

May 1, 2003

UC May Lose Los Alamos

By Josh Braun

The Department of Energy - once the Atomic Energy Commission - which owns Los Alamos, announced Wednesday that the UC's contract to manage Los Alamos will be open for bidding in 2005.

April 23, 2003

Dept. of Energy Releases Laboratory Audit

By Josh Braun

Los Alamos National Laboratory, once home to the Manhattan Project and birthplace of the atomic bomb, celebrated its 60th birthday on Tuesday under the most solemn of circumstances.

April 17, 2003

FBI Investigates Spy Scandal at UC Nuclear Lab

By Josh Braun

Recent developments have government officials questioning the intelligence of one of the UC's nuclear laboratories. William Cleveland Jr. resigned from his position as the head of counterintelligence at Lawrence Livermor...

February 21, 2003

Mental Health

By Josh Braun

In the wake of major criticisms by the Surgeon General and the World Health Organization, the federal government is now considering the grave state of mental health care in the United States

February 11, 2003

UCSB To Join New Scientific Research Group

By Josh Braun

Researchers at UCSB are conducting a new kind of experiment. They are changing the way industries do basic research.

February 10, 2003

‘NASA Will Move On,’ Official Says

By Josh Braun

In recent days, the national media has been filled with wild speculation concerning the shuttle disaster. Dr. Kenneth Baldwin of UC Irvine is a biophysicist and one of four UC professors who serve on the NASA Advisory Co...

February 3, 2003

Lab Rat: Remember the Beauty of Exploration

By Josh Braun

More pressure, less funding - this is the true recipe for disaster. Corporations, politicians and public interest all have something to say about how scientists ply their trade. And as I learned about it, I learned about...

February 3, 2003

Shuttle Losses Hit Home for Project Veterans

By Josh Braun

Santa Barbara County was once home to the space shuttle. It was to be launched from the California coast only weeks after the Challenger disaster forced the military to give up the program. A few people remain from the S...

February 3, 2003

Federal Report Shows Abuses of Lab Funding

By Josh Braun

Over $1.5 million in lab property was lost by or stolen from the Los Alamos National Laboratory, birthplace of the atomic bomb, between 2000 and 2002, a recent government report says.

January 28, 2003

Lab Rat: Genetic Map May Lead to Designer Drugs, Cures and Children

By Josh Braun

They are the logical result of a collision course between science, religion and the humanities - and at the same time a place where logic breaks down.

January 22, 2003

Gross Receives Real Chair at Theoretical Physics Institute

By Josh Braun

Fred Gluck, the former head of McKinsey & Co., recently donated $1 million to UCSB's Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics to endow a chair. A ceremony was held over Winter Break to commemorate the occasion and include...

January 14, 2003

Allergy Yields Government Compensation

By Josh Braun

Under new federal guidelines, former employees of Goleta's Lebow Company who suffered adverse medical effects from working with beryllium will now be eligible for up to $150,000 in compensation and full medical benefits.

January 9, 2003

Genes for All Seasons

By Josh Braun

It began in the May of 1985 when Robert Sinsheimer, who currently works at UCSB, called a workshop at UC Santa Cruz at which scientists discussed for the first time the possibility of mapping the human genome.