Science & Tech

March 5, 2020

UCSB Researchers Investigate Cause of Sodium Dysregulation in Migraine

By Jacqueline Wen

Identifying the cause of disturbances in brain sodium levels may inform potential migraine treatment.

February 27, 2020

UCSB’s Fourth Annual Zero Waste Festival Highlights Sustainability and Waste Reduction

By Leon Liu

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.

February 27, 2020

Researchers in Kruger National Park Observe How Fire and Drought Shape Plant Communities

By Sean Crommelin

Scholars capitalized on this devastating drought to obtain information regarding the resilience and resistance of the plant communities found throughout the South African savanna.

February 20, 2020

National Society of Black Engineers at UCSB Provides Black S.T.E.M. Students “Encouragement” and “Knowledge”

By Jacqueline Wen

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

February 20, 2020

A Rooted Conversation About Hair

By Surya Pugal

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.

February 18, 2020

CO₂ and Climate Change: Same Goal, New Perspectives

By Leon Liu

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.

February 14, 2020

Inherited Cancer and Genetics: Mary-Claire King Describes Finding Cancer Susceptibility Gene BRCA1

By Phoenix Pham

Due to her dedicated effort, Mary-Claire King has shaped the way the science community views ovarian and breast cancer.

February 13, 2020

Molecular Engineering of Materials for Chemical Sensing and Metal-Organic Frameworks

By Surya Pugal

Currently, Mirica heads a research group whose main focus is “working with different realms of materials to try and find overarching emerging common properties.”

February 13, 2020

UCSB Researchers Develop Controlled Phage Therapy Techniques, Potential Alternative to Antibiotics

By Jacqueline Wen

"Our work is geared toward bringing phage therapy under control so that it can be used safely and more widely,” Irene Chen said.

February 7, 2020

“Three Billion Birds Lost”: A Seven-Action Plan to Help

By Anastassia Dardenne

Rosenberg and his team found that bird populations in North America have decreased by almost 2.9 billion since 1970.

February 6, 2020

New English Course at UCSB Offers Students a More Personal Understanding of Climate Change

By Daniel Seo

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.

February 6, 2020

Former UCSB Professor Faces Paper Retractions, Suspicions Regarding Anomalous Data

By Sean Crommelin

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.

January 30, 2020

Neuroscientists Find Categorization Influences May Begin in Earliest Stages of Visual System

By Jacqueline Wen

The results appeared to indicate that the effects of categorization were “basically immediate," Sprague said.

January 30, 2020

“Two Years After Fire and Flood”: Santa Barbara Community Evaluates Impacts and Responses

By Sean Crommelin

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.

January 27, 2020

UCSB Researchers Use Shark Denticles To Better Understand Pre-Human Era Population Baselines

By Sean Crommelin

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.