Science & Tech

UCSB Researchers Investigate Cause of Sodium Dysregulation in Migraine

March 5, 2020 by

Identifying the cause of disturbances in brain sodium levels may inform potential migraine treatment.
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UCSB’s Fourth Annual Zero Waste Festival Highlights Sustainability and Waste Reduction

February 27, 2020 by

The festival, held at Storke Plaza, featured over a dozen on-campus organizations and local businesses that are dedicated to reducing Goleta’s waste output.
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Researchers in Kruger National Park Observe How Fire and Drought Shape Plant Communities

February 27, 2020 by

Scholars capitalized on this devastating drought to obtain information regarding the resilience and resistance of the plant communities found throughout the South African savanna.
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National Society of Black Engineers at UCSB Provides Black S.T.E.M. Students “Encouragement” and “Knowledge”

February 20, 2020 by

NSBE also frequently collaborates with another MESA engineering program partner, Los Ingenieros, as well as UCSB’s College of Engineering.
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A Rooted Conversation About Hair

February 20, 2020 by

The conversation about natural hair in the African American community has been a hard one, riddled with misconceptions that lend to discriminatory practices both within and outside of the workplace.
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CO₂ and Climate Change: Same Goal, New Perspectives

February 18, 2020 by

Hain believes that the boron isotope-pH proxy may be the next step in climate change research, as it generates a baseline representation of the relationship between CO₂ and global temperature.
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Inherited Cancer and Genetics: Mary-Claire King Describes Finding Cancer Susceptibility Gene BRCA1

February 14, 2020 by

Due to her dedicated effort, Mary-Claire King has shaped the way the science community views ovarian and breast cancer. 
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Molecular Engineering of Materials for Chemical Sensing and Metal-Organic Frameworks

February 13, 2020 by

Currently, Mirica heads a research group whose main focus is “working with different realms of materials to try and find overarching emerging common properties.”
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UCSB Researchers Develop Controlled Phage Therapy Techniques, Potential Alternative to Antibiotics

February 13, 2020 by

"Our work is geared toward bringing phage therapy under control so that it can be used safely and more widely,” Irene Chen said.
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“Three Billion Birds Lost”: A Seven-Action Plan to Help

February 7, 2020 by

Rosenberg and his team found that bird populations in North America have decreased by almost 2.9 billion since 1970. 
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New English Course at UCSB Offers Students a More Personal Understanding of Climate Change

February 6, 2020 by

Ken Hiltner developed and teaches English 23, or “The Climate Crisis: What It Is and What Each of Us Can Do About It,” known colloquially as Climate Crisis 101.
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Former UCSB Professor Faces Paper Retractions, Suspicions Regarding Anomalous Data

February 6, 2020 by

The investigations into Pruitt’s data will no doubt have an enormous impact on Pruitt, his collaborators and the broader field of animal personality research.
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Neuroscientists Find Categorization Influences May Begin in Earliest Stages of Visual System

January 30, 2020 by

The results appeared to indicate that the effects of categorization were “basically immediate," Sprague said.
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“Two Years After Fire and Flood”: Santa Barbara Community Evaluates Impacts and Responses

January 30, 2020 by

On Sunday, Santa Barbara community members attended a public conversation regarding the aftermath of the Thomas Fire in December 2017 and January 2018 and the Montecito mudflows.
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UCSB Researchers Use Shark Denticles To Better Understand Pre-Human Era Population Baselines

January 27, 2020 by

Dillon is looking at the dermal denticles of sharks, the tooth-like scales which cover shark skin, to better understand their population baselines and abundance in a number of contexts. 
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