Suraj Sood

August 27, 2014

Artificial Intelligence: Can Science Truly Recreate You?

By Suraj Sood

With the unprecedented rise of millennial computing, lightning fast telecommunication, vibrant social media and virtually limitless access to information, our lives are consumed by a torrent of powerful technological inf...

May 21, 2014

Nintendo Slated to Release Revamped Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire for Nintendo 3DS this November

By Suraj Sood

Suraj Sood details Nintendo's latest title announcement.

April 30, 2014

TEDx Hosts UCSB Faculty to ‘Spread Ideas Worth Sharing’

By Suraj Sood

This past Saturday evening, UC Santa Barbara’s Regents and Chancellor’s Scholars Association invited seven esteemed faculty members to share their ideas and wisdom at the second annual TEDx event. The theme of this y...

April 24, 2014

Mitsubishi Extending MRL Partnership with $6 Million

By Suraj Sood

Mitsubishi Chemical Center for Advanced Materials (MC-CAM) — a UCSB entity representing the ongoing materials research alliance between Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation (Tokyo) and UCSB — has recently announced its ex...

April 16, 2014

NASA’s Cassini Uncovers Lost Seas Within Saturn’s Moon Enceladus

By Suraj Sood

NASA announced last week that its Cassini spacecraft uncovered the existence of a large body of water underneath the surface of Enceladus, one of Saturn’s moons. Enceladus has been a fixation of the Cassini mission sin...

April 5, 2014

Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics Hosts a “Science Cafe” Featuring Astrophysicist Matteo Cantiello Speaking on Stars

By Suraj Sood

Despite the broad and plentiful array of research abounding on the University of California, Santa Barbara campus, many do not have the opportunity to learn about these scientific explorations in an approachable setting....

February 26, 2014

KAVLI Introduces Educators to Emerging Science Concepts

By Suraj Sood

Dozens of teachers from around the country gathered at UCSB’s Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP) to participate in “The Physics of Flocking: From Cells to Crowds,” a full-day workshop for high school sc...

January 29, 2014

NFL, GE Fund UCSB Brain Injury Research

By Suraj Sood

General Electric (GE) and the National Football League (NFL) recently donated $300,000 to University of California, Santa Barbara’s Brain Imaging Center as part of the Head Health Challenge, a joint initiative by GE an...

January 8, 2014

Late Bedtime? Expect Lower GPA, More Emotional Stress

By Suraj Sood

Researchers at the Golden Bear Sleep & Mood Research Clinic at UC Berkeley recently found that teenagers who go to sleep later are more likely to face emotional and academic problems down the road than their earlier-slee...

October 22, 2013

Taking a Look at How We Define Intelligence

By Suraj Sood

Intelligence: it’s a notion we’re all intimately familiar with. After all, we are intelligent, right? Do we not attend a top-tier public university? Have we not made all the necessary, intelligent moves to get where ...

October 10, 2013