Stephanie Pernett

March 7, 2016

SB Shelter Seeks To Give Dogs Their Own Spring Break

By Stephanie Pernett

With finals looming around the corner, students are looking forward to spring break, a sentiment shared by the dogs at Santa Barbara County Animal Services (SBCAS).

February 11, 2016

Laying Down the Roots of S.T.E.M. Education

By Stephanie Pernett

“Science is more than a school subject, or the periodic table or the properties of waves. It is an approach to the world, a critical way to understand and explore and engage with the world, and then have the capacity t...

February 4, 2016

The Search for Dark Matter

By Stephanie Pernett

One of the greatest mysteries in modern astrophysics is dark matter. While it makes up about 80 percent of the matter in the entire Universe, its detection has eluded physicists and scientists since it was first hypothes...

January 7, 2016

A Polymeric Future

By Stephanie Pernett

Research in one field is oftentimes applicable in another, and for UC Santa Barbara chemist Abby Knight her research is no different. While pursuing her doctorate at UC Berkeley, Knight created a plastic micro bead that ...

October 29, 2015

Commonly Abused Drugs – Heroin

By Stephanie Pernett

Not So Heroic, Heroin First synthesized in 1895 by Heinrich Dreser, who worked for the Bayer Company in Germany, heroin was originally marketed as treatment for a variety of illnesses, such as asthma, bronchitis, tubercu...

October 15, 2015

Let There Be Light

By Stephanie Pernett

The United Nations has declared 2015 the International Year of Light. To honor that, UC Santa Barbara’s College of Engineering along with the Institute of Energy Efficiency (IEE) hosted a light symposium at Corwin Pavi...

September 17, 2015

Earth Versus Asteroid: Who Will Win?

By Stephanie Pernett

Natural disasters and the diminishing of Earth’s resources are only some of the problems that humans have to face; there is also the threat of asteroids colliding into Earth and causing a razing of the environment, its...

May 28, 2015

Supernova Collision May Reveal Its Origin

By Stephanie Pernett

Decades ago, Type Ia Supernovae, or “standard candlelight’s,” as their known, have lent to significant advancements in cosmology, providing scientists with a marker with which to estimate the age and chart the expa...