Sean Crommelin

April 15, 2020

When One Party Commits Voter Suppression, Democracy Suffers

By Sean Crommelin

Wisconsin is a microcosm of the national political sphere. The issues with voter suppression that arose on April 7 are being spoken of all across the country.

April 14, 2020

UCSB Researchers Investigate the Impact of Nitrogen Pollution on Coral Bleaching in Moorea, French Polynesia

By Sean Crommelin

Researchers have discovered an important relationship between the extent of coral bleaching experienced by a reef and the level of nutrient pollution present in the water the reef is in.

March 5, 2020

A Hail Mary for the Monarch Butterfly: The Plan To Rehabilitate Ellwood Butterfly Grove

By Sean Crommelin

The new Parks and Open Space manager for the Goleta Public Works Department spoke regarding progress made in bringing back the long-declining monarch butterfly to Coronado Preserve and Ellwood.

February 27, 2020

Researchers in Kruger National Park Observe How Fire and Drought Shape Plant Communities

By Sean Crommelin

Scholars capitalized on this devastating drought to obtain information regarding the resilience and resistance of the plant communities found throughout the South African savanna.

February 27, 2020

Freedom Rider Bernard Lafayette Jr. Talks Civil Disobedience for the Modern Age

By Sean Crommelin

The discussion was organized by the Associated Students Program Board and marked Lafayette’s first visit to the university.

February 21, 2020

Out for the Count: With 2020 Census on the Horizon, Census Specialist Explains the Process

By Sean Crommelin

The process takes months, and the results of the census are compiled and delivered to the president in December, with the results available to the public in early 2021.

February 13, 2020

Soc 152A Professors Reminisce Over More than Four Decades of Teaching Sex-Ed

By Sean Crommelin

Janice and John Baldwin have been teaching the current iteration of Soc 152A for over 40 years.

February 6, 2020

Former UCSB Professor Faces Paper Retractions, Suspicions Regarding Anomalous Data

By Sean Crommelin

The investigations into Pruitt’s data will no doubt have an enormous impact on Pruitt, his collaborators and the broader field of animal personality research.

January 30, 2020

“Two Years After Fire and Flood”: Santa Barbara Community Evaluates Impacts and Responses

By Sean Crommelin

On Sunday, Santa Barbara community members attended a public conversation regarding the aftermath of the Thomas Fire in December 2017 and January 2018 and the Montecito mudflows.

January 30, 2020

RCSGD Personnel and Students Reconvene to Discuss 2017 Demands, Including Unmet Demand for New Building

By Sean Crommelin

Two years later, the largest and most costly demand is the last one left: the designation of a free-standing building for the RCSGD.

January 27, 2020

UCSB Researchers Use Shark Denticles To Better Understand Pre-Human Era Population Baselines

By Sean Crommelin

Dillon is looking at the dermal denticles of sharks, the tooth-like scales which cover shark skin, to better understand their population baselines and abundance in a number of contexts. 

January 16, 2020

The Code Less Traveled: SB Hacks 2020 Focuses on Hacker Experience

By Sean Crommelin

For 36 hours from 5 p.m. on Friday to 9 a.m. on Sunday, over 340 coders worked tirelessly in Corwin Pavilion during SB Hacks VI, UC Santa Barbara’s largest annual hackathon.

January 9, 2020

One Limb, Two Limb, Left Limb, Right Limb: The Ground Rules of Planar Cell Polarity

By Sean Crommelin

The way in which structural symmetry is broken and complexity forms in an organism depends on the directional instructions given to cells, provided by pathways known as planar polarity pathways.

December 5, 2019

Recapping the First Annual Blockchain Summit at UCSB

By Sean Crommelin

On Nov. 23, the campus organization Blockchain at UCSB hosted the first-ever Santa Barbara Blockchain Summit at Corwin Pavilion, featuring tech industry leaders, start-up founders and professors. 

November 21, 2019

You Reef What You Sow: Coral Reef Management and Status in a Warming World

By Sean Crommelin

“Many reefs around the world are losing ecosystem function and declining to degraded states with a loss of coral cover, less fish and the proliferation of algae,” Donovan said.

November 21, 2019

Mental Health in Medicine: Presented by Vania Manipod, D.O., at UCSB

By Sean Crommelin, Jacqueline Wen

Manipod described her own experience with occupational burnout and how living with the condition led to her reevaluate her career and her priorities as a psychiatrist.