Priyanka Shindgikar

January 14, 2016

UC Santa Barbara’s Top Innovators

By Priyanka Shindgikar

National Medal Of Technology Recipient, Andrew Gossard Arthur Gossard, UC Santa Barbara Research Professor and Professor Emeritus of Materials, Electrical and Computer Engineering, was recently named one of the eight rec...

December 3, 2015

Holiday Science Lab

By Priyanka Shindgikar

What is crystallization? Crystallization is a solid-liquid separation technique. An impure solid compound is completely dissolved in hot water. This solution contains the desired compound as well as impurities that float...

November 12, 2015

UC Aims for Carbon Neutrality by 2025

By Priyanka Shindgikar, Mackenzie Gorman

University of California president Janet Napolitano announced the goal of carbon neutrality at all nine universities by 2025. The Carbon Neutrality Initiative aims to reduce the amount of greenhouse gas emitted from buil...

May 28, 2015

UCSB Saves Half A Billion Gallons of Water Through Recycled Water Efforts

By Priyanka Shindgikar

Many students wonder: as one of the “Top 50 Green Schools” with a commitment to environmental sustainability and conservation, how is UCSB still able to maintain lush green lawns amidst the grueling California drough...

March 5, 2015

Got Health? Awareness Week Comes to Campus

By Priyanka Shindgikar

For many of us, college means eating a bag of Doritos between classes because you don’t have enough time for a real meal, and drowning in coffee during late night study sessions. Many students struggle with eating heal...

November 20, 2014

MCDB Professor Receives Grant to Study Polycystic Kidney Disease

By Priyanka Shindgikar

UCSB Professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology Thomas Weimbs, was recently awarded a three-year grant for $600,000 by the Lillian Goldman Charitable Trust of New York to support his lab’s investigation...

October 16, 2014

A Look Into the Physics Behind Shuji Nakamura’s Nobel Prize

By Priyanka Shindgikar

Shuji Nakamura, Professor of Materials and Research Director of the Solid State Lighting and Energy Electronics Center (SSLEEC) at UCSB, recently received the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics from the Royal Swedish Academy of...

August 27, 2014

American Doctors Respond Successfully to Ebola Treatment

By Priyanka Shindgikar

Two Americans doctors infected by the recent outbreak of Ebola hemorrhagic fever in Liberia were released from Emory University Hospital in Atlanta on Aug. 21 following a successful treatment with the experimental drug Z...

April 9, 2014

There’s a Latte Ways Caffeine Can Affect You

By Priyanka Shindgikar

One-third of the world’s population consumes coffee on a regular basis. The average American drinks three cups of coffee a day. Many people — especially college students — indulge in the revitalizing magic of coffe...

January 29, 2014

Yoga: More Than a Trend

By Priyanka Shindgikar

You are in your biweekly evening yoga class. Your mind is cleared from the clutter of your busy day; you’re calm and there is an equal boost of energy with every pose and breathing exercise. Finally, you lie down into ...

January 8, 2014

UCSB College of Engineering Researchers Design Innovative PTSD Diagnosis Technique

By Priyanka Shindgikar

The end of war brings home soldiers, and accompanying many of these veterans is post-traumatic stress disorder, PTSD. This disorder occurs after experiencing a stressful or frightening event and often makes veterans feel...

October 1, 2013

Meningitis Bacterial Defense Mechanism Finds Applications in Future of Regenerative Medicine

By Priyanka Shindgikar

Researchers from UC Santa Barbara, the Morgridge Institute for Research at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and Northwestern University recently created a technique to target and correct genetic mutations in the gen...

May 14, 2013

UCSF Research Team Develops Epilepsy Cell Therapy In Mice

By Priyanka Shindgikar

UCSF researchers have found a way to cure epilepsy in mice using cell transplantation and hope to implement this technique to cure forms of human epilepsy. The study was funded by the National Institutes of Health and by...

April 16, 2013

Study Examines Vascular Health, Cognitive Decline

By Priyanka Shindgikar

UCLA researchers have been studying the specifics of a broader concept that vascular health and stroke risk affect cognition independent of dementia processes. The published study, titled “Vascular Risk and FDDNP-PET I...

February 26, 2013

Researchers Consider Solar-Powered Asteroid Vaporization Method

By Priyanka Shindgikar

On February 15, Asteroid 2012 DA14, an asteroid about half of the size of a football field, flew extremely close to Earth. Recently, a meteor about 55 feet in diameter and weighing 10,000 tons crashed into Earth, landing...

February 5, 2013

Scientists Study Arthritis Friction

By Priyanka Shindgikar

The research of UC Santa Barbara scientists from the Dept. of Chemical Engineering and the Materials Dept. is making way for new, low-cost methods of early arthritis detection. Jacob Israelachvili, UCSB professor of chem...