Science & Tech

October 11, 2020

Ethics in the University Setting: An Interview With Doug Thrower

By Serhat Suzer

What safeguards are put in place to prevent the university from engaging in unethical research practices? To find out, Serhat Suzer spoke to Dr. Doug Thrower.

October 11, 2020

Science and Ethics in History, the Ivory Tower and Beyond

By Serhat Suzer

Public confidence in science is important. In order to preserve this confidence, we must recognize its shortcomings.

October 4, 2020

UCSB Anthropologists Identify Common Misconceptions About Child Marriage Among Americans

By Leon Liu

The questionnaire was designed to ascertain the participants’ understanding of the legality of child marriage.

September 28, 2020

Over Land and Sea, UCSB Researchers Put a Number on Fast-Growing Microfiber Emissions

By Sean Crommelin

The amount of microfibers currently being released into the natural environment has drawn alarm from scientists, environmentalists and policymakers across the world.

September 24, 2020

The Balancing Act: “Using and Refusing the Law”

By Sean Crommelin

There is a struggle, as Hale describes, between “using” the law to advance one’s interests and “refusing” the tenets of it which invalidate one’s way of life.

September 16, 2020

Lions and Tigers and Bears, Oh My! How the “Ecology of Fear” Can Be Instrumental To Achieving Wildlife Conservation Goals

By Joshua Pham

“Research on the ecology of fear tries to understand the role that risk perception plays in driving not just animal behavior, but broader species interactions,” Gaynor said.

September 10, 2020

Imperiled by the Pandemic, Dorm Life Finds Refuge on Cyberspace With SixFeet

By Sean Crommelin

Victor Cheng and Aspyn Palatnick created a social media platform which aims to provide users with a “virtual dorm.” 

September 4, 2020

In Photos | Prescribed Burn Conducted on Lagoon Island

By Daily Nexus Photography, Sean Crommelin

At 11 a.m. on Thursday, Sept. 3, a prescribed burn was conducted on Lagoon Island to mitigate the growth of exotic species as part of a restoration effort.

August 30, 2020

“I really do believe that we owe it to future generations to protect these areas”: UCSB Lecturer Creates Website to Spread Awareness of Public Lands

By Sean Crommelin

The compendium provides information about 50 public land destinations within a 300-mile radius of Santa Barbara, specifically using Campbell Hall as the epicenter.

August 27, 2020

Who Decides — or Is Able — To Stay Home? Researchers Observe Mobility Drop Among the Wealthy and Increase Among the Poor During Quarantine

By Sean Crommelin

The foundational research is among the first of its kind to examine the role of income “as a predictor of social distancing behavior."

August 23, 2020

“That Anthro Podcast” Shines a Spotlight on UCSB Anthropology Department

By Sean Crommelin

Campbell and her guests have already covered such seemingly disparate subjects as the role of forensics in bioarchaeology and studies of land use in ecological anthropology.

August 17, 2020

Researchers Uncover Miniaturized Relative of Dinosaurs and Pterosaurs From Triassic Madagascar

By Sean Crommelin

Although a complete skeleton of K. kely has not been recovered, fossil fragments have given researchers a good idea of what the animal was like. 

August 14, 2020

Building Wheat to Take the Heat

By Sean Crommelin

There is much interest in making wheat resilient to drought and better cope with its varietal stressors, such as heat. 

July 29, 2020

UCSB Researchers Propose a Solution to Address “Bottlenecks” in COVID-19 Testing

By Joshua Pham

The research team developed a method called Precipitation Enhanced Analyte RetrievaL, or PEARL for short.

July 23, 2020

Bright Ideas: UCSB Researchers Establish a Laboratory Culture of Bioluminescent Ostracods

By Sean Crommelin

Establishing a laboratory culture of V. tsujii allowed the team to make observations regarding the ostracod's development.

July 19, 2020

Friends of the Island Fox Bolsters Research and Conservation Initiatives With Much-Needed Funds

By Sean Crommelin

Friends of the Island Fox works alongside the patchwork of organizations governing the Channel Islands in their “efforts to preserve and protect the island fox."