Josh Braun

April 3, 2002

Red Tape: The Cutting Edge of Adventure

By Josh Braun

Ahh, the sights and sounds of southwest Utah: the babbling streams, the venous walls of crimson rock towering above the desert floor, and the Traveler-model Swiss army knife blade protruding from my hand.

April 2, 2002

Livermore Lab Searches for New Director

By Josh Braun

The Committee to Advise the [University of California] President on the Selection of a Director for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) met in closed session on Wednesday, March 27 to review applications and no...

April 1, 2002

Nanosystems Institute cures parking problem with very small cars

By Josh Braun

The proposed construction site for the new California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) building will eliminate 1,407 parking spaces at UCSB.

March 6, 2002

Red Tape: Pricey Adventures in College Rentals

By Josh Braun

I slept on the couch at a friend's apartment in San Jose. The major difference is simple: the price. Three girls live here for around $430 a month per person. My three-bedroom apartment holds 6 people for $500 a person. ...

March 4, 2002

Lab Begins Search for New Director

By Josh Braun

Six months from now, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory will have a new director. It just won't be an easy decision.

March 1, 2002

Academy Adds UCSB Engineers to Ranks

By Josh Braun

UCSB electrical and computer engineering professor and California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) Director Evelyn Hu, and UCSB materials/physics professor and Nobel Laureate Alan Heeger were elected to the National Academy ...

February 13, 2002

Vision

By Josh Braun

One out of every 10 people over the age of 60 will lose all or part of their vision to the eye disease known as age-related macular degeneration. Six years ago, researchers at UCSB set out to discover why.

February 4, 2002

Red Tape: ‘Sexual Assault Is Never Okay – Even Against a Car’

By Josh Braun

Vandalism sucks. And no one is reporting it. Between the years of 1996 and 2000, the number of reported on-campus vandalism incidents ranged between 61 and 76 per year.

January 30, 2002

Could Be Genetic

By Josh Braun

From his window office in Biological Sciences II,geneticist Robert Sinsheimer reflects on his life, on his science, and on the science of life.

January 23, 2002

Red Tape: RBT Has No Class When It Comes to Your Registration

By Josh Braun

I just successfully crashed into my math course. So did half of the class, it seems. No, it wasn't impacted that badly. And no, they didn't open an extra section. So what was keeping people out?

January 17, 2002

Laser Provides New Way to Locate Star

By Josh Braun

The first hydrogen bomb, developed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, was many times brighter than the sun. Now LLNL has introduced a new phenomenon: a virtual star.

January 15, 2002

Year In Review

By Josh Braun

To ring in the new year, I have compiled a list of notable achievements in science and technology at UCSB in 2001.

January 14, 2002

Red Tape: Above Streetlights, Bathed in Starlight

By Josh Braun

At the coastline, sailboats and oil platforms take up the shining torch, stretching out toward the horizon where they meet the sky, and turn the entire world into one giant field of stars.

January 10, 2002

Movie Review: The Wide Blue Road: No Man Is an Island

By Josh Braun

"The Wide Blue Road" is a film about a town of fishermen in Italy in the midst of a post-World War II economic slump

January 7, 2002

Red Tape: It Makes You Want to Reach Out and Strangle Someone

By Josh Braun

Some of you may remember a column I wrote about my troubles with the phone company. What happened then was just the beginning. For the next two months my bills from Verizon failed to credit me for my payments.

January 7, 2002

ITP Receives $7.5 Million Gift

By Josh Braun

The money will be used to support programs at the ITP that are not federal funding targets, to provide immediate funds for cutting-edge research and for a physical expansion of Kohn Hall, which houses the institute.