Science & Tech

November 23, 2021

Campus Point: New and Exciting Research at UCSB

By Sean Crommelin

A look at rockfish, LED lights, and fire probability predictions with UCSB researchers.

November 23, 2021

Simply Stated: What Are The Stages of Vaccine Development?

By Audrey Moeller

On November 2, the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine was approved for administration in an age-appropriate dosage for children aged 5-11. With this recent milestone, many of us have been wondering what the vaccine develop...

November 23, 2021

UCSB Marine Science Institute Highlights Microbes as Key to Further Medical Discovery

By Audrey Moeller, Anaya Khan

In early October, researchers Isabel J. Jones, Susanne H. Sokolow and Giulio A. De Leo from the Marine Science Institute at UC Santa Barbara explored the benefits of using natural enemies as a sustainable method to contr...

November 14, 2021

UCSB Physics Professor Proposes New Planetary Defense System

By Maddie Dewhirst

The project proposes a way to break up incoming cosmic objects, instead of just deflecting them as past efforts have sought to do.

November 5, 2021

UCSB Ecologist Looks to AI To Improve Wildlife Camera Trapping

By Emma Holm-Olsen

The data analyzed in this study was taken from a long-term camera trap project in Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique.

November 4, 2021

UCSB Professor Urges Centrality of Women in Biomedical Research

By Maya Ades

Emily Jacobs gave a lecture last week in the library entitled, “The Uncharted Mind — The Scientific Body of Knowledge: Whose Body Does it Serve?”

October 29, 2021

Despite Public Outrage, Pine Mountain Remains Threatened By Logging

By Nasim Elyasi

The project threatens 755 acres of conifer forest and chaparral on a mountain ridge in Los Padres National Forest.

October 28, 2021

River Flows Across You: Game Theory in the Harirud Basin

By Sean Crommelin, Audrey Pham

The Harirud flows west from the snow-capped peaks of the Hindu Kush. From this origin, the river traverses Afghanistan, Iran and Turkmenistan.

October 22, 2021

Thinking Globally and Acting Locally: Ian Shive and the Santa Barbara Wildlife Care Network Celebrate New Hospital

By Emma Holm-Olsen

Shive is an author, photographer, filmmaker and conservationist, whose most recent works include the Discovery+ series “The Last Unknown” (2021).

October 21, 2021

Campus Point: New and Exciting Research at UCSB

By Sean Crommelin

A look at soil, fish and psychology training programs with UCSB researchers.

October 15, 2021

Los Ingenieros Engineers a Space for Underrepresented Students in S.T.E.M.

By Sean Crommelin

For decades, Los Ingenieros has sought to create a community for underrepresented students in the College of Engineering.

October 14, 2021

Mechanical Engineering Professor Receives $1.8 Million NSF Grant

By Devanshi Tomar

“The grant will provide opportunities for training students in how to incorporate biological circuits and elements into designer materials and then the deployment of those materials in useful devices that can move, gra...

October 14, 2021

Simply Stated: Is There Such a Thing as “Good Fire?”

By Sean Crommelin

Is the Alisal Fire a “good fire” or a “bad fire?” Well, it depends.

October 8, 2021

The Psychological Science Behind Pseudoscience

By Sean Crommelin

How do pseudoscientific beliefs, as they are called, spread and come to be accepted by many as fact?

October 8, 2021

Mathematics Professor Xin Zhou Invited To Speak at International Congress of Mathematicians

By Devanshi Tomar

The ICM is considered to be “the most influential meeting in pure and applied mathematics, as well as one of the world’s oldest scientific congresses.”