Campus Point: New and Exciting Research at UCSB
New research in the climate crisis, fungi, and disease-detecting dogs
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Campus Point
Campus Point: New and exciting research from UCSB
A look at the cognitive and physiological effects of alcohol, determinants of glacier periods, and how our bodies remember stress.
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Campus Point: New and exciting research from UCSB
A look at carbon capture innovation, marine heatwaves, and deep-sea mining.
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Campus Point: New and exciting research from UCSB
A look at policy performance estimations, re-evaluating FDA approved antibiotics, and understanding the interactions of molecular complexes at low temperatures.
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Campus Point: New and exciting research from UCSB
A look at anatomical organization, battery efficiency, and nonviral genetic editing techniques.
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Campus Point: New and Exciting Research at UCSB
A look at ongoing efforts to protect salt-lake ecosystems and newly obtained images of "gasgiant exoplanets"
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Campus Point: New and Exciting Research at UCSB
A look at technological revivals, coral reef resilience, and how protecting forests is one of the best tools at our disposal to combat climate change.
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Campus Point: New and Exciting Research at UCSB
A look at academic dishonesty, antibiotics, and mindfulness.
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Campus Point: New and Exciting Research at UCSB
A look at AI in ecology, sustainability in marine biotech, and love in an industrial world.
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Campus Point: New and Exciting Research at UCSB
A look at mental health, laser manufacturing, the evolution of desirability, and food footprints.
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Campus Point: New and Exciting Research at UCSB
A look at data collection, deforestation and Drosophila.
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Campus Point: New and Exciting Research at UCSB
A look at breakthrough biofilters, ghost fishing, and greenhouse gas emission levels in China
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Campus Point: New and Exciting Research at UCSB
A look at the pitfalls of E-scootering, the maritime consequences of population growth, and the social cues children use to process the society they develop in.
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Campus Point: New and Exciting Research at UCSB
A look at the rise of zoonoses, addressing water demands, and the blue economy.
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Campus Point: New and Exciting Research at UCSB
A look at the counter-argument against the Standard Model, experimentation with viscosity, and the consequences of extreme rainfall events.
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Thanksgiving!
Labyrinth: Grades Search
Aries
March 21 - April 19
Forgetting to take off the ratty AF1’s at the potluck (most Asian households don’t take kindly to shoes in the house!)
Taurus
April 20 - May 20
Wearing your only red t-shirt to every final (Red is a lucky color in many cultures, especially Chinese cultures)
Gemini
May 21 - June 20
Putting spiders in your friend’s wedding dress for good luck (Has its origins in old english folklore, and represents abundance for the couple)
Cancer
June 21 - July 22
Accidentally summoned a ghost by leaving their chopsticks straight up (A superstition that has Chinese origins because the chopsticks are reminiscent of funeral incense)
Leo
July 23 - August 22
Didn’t like your friends significant other so they gifted them an umbrella (The word for umbrella ‘san’ sounds like the word for divorce in Chinese)
Virgo
August 23 - September 22
Believing in horoscopes (The modern western zodiac actually came from Babylonian astrology)
Libra
September 23 - October 22
Walked backwards in Portugal to live out the Faust fantasy (In Portugal, walking backwards allows the devil to know exactly where you are)
Scorpio
October 23 - November 21
Stole a raven from the tower of london as reparations (According to UK superstition, if there aren’t 6 ravens in the tower, the kingdom will fall)
Sagittarius
November 22 - December 21
Breaks a knuckle knocking on wood for good scores on finals (Knocking on wood may have originated from the Celts and their love for tree spirits)
Capricorn
December 22 - January 19
Drunkenly rearranging their apartment for the feng shui at 3 AM (A Chinese cultural practice that harmonizes a person with the energies of the environment around them)
Aquarius
January 20 - February 18
Left out their middle name on their taxes because the Fae run the IRS (Giving the Fae your full name gives them power over you, and the IRS has too much)
Pisces
February 19 - March 20
Hit by a car but the license plate had an angel number (Beyond just blowing up on TikTok, angel numbers were invented by... Pythagoras)
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