Josh Braun

May 21, 2001

Lecturer Advocates Union of Social Responsibility, Science

By Josh Braun

Technophiles and humanitarians found a rare common ground Friday in Isla Vista Theater in the lecture of renowned physicist and science writer Freeman Dyson, who spoke on technology and social justice as part of the "Sci...

May 18, 2001

Science Writer To Lecture on Technology

By Josh Braun

One of the most prolific science writers of all time, Freeman Dyson has published several books on the future of mankind and written articles for Time Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly and The New England Journal of Medicin...

May 15, 2001

Much Ado About Nothing: Lecturers Hold UCSB Seminar on Nothingness

By Josh Braun

Nothing can hold people's attention for two days. Specifically, a conference on "nothingness" held the attention of a full crowd in Buchanan 1910 last weekend.

May 9, 2001

Physicists Release Findings on Cosmos

By Josh Braun

BOOMERanG keeps coming back.The strange acronym is the name of the airborne telescope, Balloon Observations of Millimetric Extragalactic Radiation and Geophysics, which helped physicists determine the shape of the univer...

April 30, 2001

History Professor Looks at Divide Between Philosophy, Science, God

By Josh Braun

Newton and Galileo considered themselves philosophers, not scientists. They considered their groundbreaking work just one part of a larger philosophy, a view UCSB history Professor Emeritus Jeffrey Russell said modern sc...

April 23, 2001

Science, Religion Forum Attracts Large Audience

By Josh Braun

UCSB Professor Emeritus Walter Kohn attracted a crowd worthy of a rock concert to Kohn Hall on Friday afternoon.

April 20, 2001

3 Year Forum To Focus on Science-Religion Dialogue

By Josh Braun

The forum - which includes seminars, lectures and undergraduate courses - is a three-year project funded by a special $100,000 grant from the John Templeton Foundation, an organization that promotes science-religion dial...

February 27, 2001

Former UCSB Professor Pioneers Medical Robotics

By Josh Braun

Tiny robots built by Yulun Wang, a former UCSB electrical and computer engineering professor, are giving doctors a new and safer tool to operate with.

January 22, 2001

UCSB Professors Build Communicative Device With New Photon Applications

By Josh Braun

Three UCSB faculty members reported building a device which emits individual photons on demand. This machine could be the first step toward building a new type of computer that operates using photons instead of electrica...