Professor To Share in LED Profits

March 2, 2004 by

The same device responsible for the new wave of color cell phone screens has earned UCSB materials Professor Shuji Nakamura a court award of 20 billion yen, equivalent to $189 million.
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UCSB Alums Invent Portable Oxygen Tank

January 15, 2004 by

What started out as three UCSB undergraduates' long-shot attempt at winning $10,000 has, in just a few short years, evolved into a promising young business that could soon have many people breathing e...
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UCSB Acquires Frank Chin Collection

September 25, 2003 by

UCSB's California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives (CEMA) has recently acquired an extensive collection of the work of Frank Chin, one of America's best known Asian-American authors.
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Series Ends With Talk on Trust in U.S.

May 15, 2003 by

So the pope and a physicist walk into a bar. Well, it's less a bar, really, than it is a lecture hall. And the pope isn't actually there, but the physicist met him once. So a physicist walks into a le...
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Ecologists Use Grant to Create Data Network

May 8, 2003 by

Since the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) was established in 1995, it has hosted researchers from 49 states and 40 nations.
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UCSB Educator Receives Award for Mentoring

April 18, 2003 by

When Dr. Fiona Goodchild came to Santa Barbara in 1988, she had not been involved with science since her high school years. Now, she has been honored with a presidential award for her efforts in scie...
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