Nader Heidari

May 31, 2011

Nades of All Trades: The Legacy That Will Not Fade (Anytime Soon)

By Nader Heidari

Well, it looks like it’s finally that time. After four years and two majors, I’ve run out of ways to remain a student here at UCSB. It’s all right. I’ve lived a good college life. I have walked among the broletar...

May 17, 2011

UC Briefs

By Nader Heidari, Tiare Hoegerman

Scientists Find New Treatment for Kidney Disease   Two researchers at UCSB, associate professor Thomas Weimbs and graduate student Jeffery Talbot, recently published a study in the Proceedings of the National Academ...

April 14, 2011

Local Establishment Holds Donation Drive

By Nader Heidari

While The Study Hall’s “50 Club” is no longer allowed to occur, the Isla Vista bar recently replaced their 11-year-old tradition with the Spring Benefit Club, a donation drive to raise money for charity. Keeping in...

March 1, 2011

Open Source Community Convenes for Southern California Linux Expo

By Nader Heidari

Casual users, software developers, hardware manufacturers and open-source all-arounders met in the Hilton Los Angeles Airport hotel for the ninth Southern California Linux Expo, or SCALE 9x.

February 22, 2011

Spectrometry Method Reveals Self-Assembly Process of Peptides

By Nader Heidari

Scientists at UCSB have used a new spectroscopic method to observe the assembly of amyloid fibrils — long-chain proteins that form in patients with certain diseases, such as Alzheimer’s disease and diabetes.

February 1, 2011

Dispersants Fail to Biodegrade Following Use in Gulf Oil Spill

By Nader Heidari

While the methane levels from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill may have returned to normal, the chemical dispersants used during the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico may be here to stay. According to a study published ...

January 25, 2011

Space Telescope Gazes Into Origin of Universe

By Nader Heidari

Over one million kilometers away from Earth, a lone satellite orbits near the second Lagrangian point, scanning the sky for the fallout left behind from the Big Bang.

January 18, 2011

UC Briefs

By Nader Heidari

Researchers at UCLA have discovered that coffee’s protective effects against Type 2 diabetes may be attributed to a protein that regulates sex hormones...

January 4, 2011

Science Over The Break

By Nader Heidari

The human mind is very much like a traveler — when it needs to reach a desired destination, it uses a map...

November 23, 2010

Bacteria Gain Evolutionary Edge With Toxic Darts

By Nader Heidari

Biologists at UCSB have published a study in the journal Nature that found that certain bacteria fight for evolutionary dominance using “toxic darts” to attack and disable their competitors.

November 16, 2010

Geologists Make Case for Gradual Diversity Changes in Cambrian Era

By Nader Heidari

The seemingly sudden spike in species diversity that occurred during the “Cambrian Explosion” around 542 million years ago has been of interest to scientists for quite some time...

November 9, 2010

New Nemertean Worm Species Named After UCSB Scientist

By Nader Heidari

UCSB zoology professor Armand Kuris has received one of the greatest honors biologists can hope for — having a newly discovered species named after him.

October 21, 2010

Mike Stoker Interview with the Daily Nexus

By Nader Heidari

September 16, 2010

Chilled Diamonds Shine Light on Comet Collision

By Nader Heidari

A grueling journey across the ice sheets of Greenland has paid off for a team of scientists, who have located some diamonds in the rough glacial climate.

August 25, 2010

Furthering Human Knowledge? There’s a University for That.

By Nader Heidari

If you type “UCSB” into Google you’ll probably come up with more than a few “University of Casual Sex and Beer” innuendos.

August 4, 2010

New Labs Commence Studies of Stem Cells

By Nader Heidari

The UCSB Center for Stem Cell Biology and Engineering has recently begun to utilize new facilities on campus to perform research to advance the field of regenerative medicine.