Science & Tech

May 18, 2017

Psychology Professor Honored for Lifetime of Contributions

By Dana Jessen

The research of applied psychologist Richard Mayer lies at the intersection of cognition, instruction and technology.

May 18, 2017

Conservation Efforts To Improve Public Health

By Aimee Miller

Ecologists collaborate on the relationships of conservation, biodiversity and infectious diseases in communities.

May 11, 2017

Physicist Measures Small-Scale Fluctuations in Cosmic Web

By Kevin Flores

Joseph Hennawi, an associate professor in the physics department at UCSB, has identified a pair or quasars in close proximity to one another. This allowed him and his team to the cosmic web on a much smaller scale than h...

May 11, 2017

Opinion Maps Detail Americans’ Climate Beliefs

By Jacqueline Wen

From 2008 to 2016, the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication ran major opinion polls on U.S. climate beliefs, surveying over 18,000 American adults bi-annually. Through the survey they found that the national aver...

May 4, 2017

Parrotfish More Concerned With Food Than Predators

By Natalie Overton

While the Daisy Parrotfish are not at the top of the marine food chain, their priorities do not lie in avoiding potential predators but rather finding their next meal.

May 4, 2017

Engineering a Solution for Diabetes

By Stephanie Pernett

Sumita Pennathur, an associate professor in the mechanical engineering department has been awarded $1.625 million to continue her research in diabetic monitoring.

April 30, 2017

Research Shows U.S. and UK Share Similar Fracking Concerns

By Aimee Miller

While the United States and the United Kingdom are separated by an ocean, researchers at UCSB find that these two countries share concerns about hydraulic fracking.

April 30, 2017

R.E.M.A.D.E. Crusade: UCSB Improves Energy Efficiency

By Jacqueline Wen

The R.E.M.A.D.E. institute at UCSB aims to find new ways to reuse metals, polymers and fibers.

April 20, 2017

Newly Discovered Microorganisms Possess Self-mutating Gene

By Kirstie Allen

Paul Blair and David Valentine of UCSB's Marne Science Institute teamed up with UCs and found microorganisms that can self mutant.

April 20, 2017

UCSB Researchers Find New Causes of Extinction

By Aimee Miller

A group of UC Santa Barbara researchers collaborated on a project combining several disciplines, including ecology, economics and conservation biology. Their objective was to examine and analyze many of the species that ...

April 20, 2017

Research Discoveries Lead to Art of Science Competition

By Dhanika Halili

The Art of Science initiative recognizes the creative and experimental nature of science and challenges UCSB researchers to visually communicate the beauty inherent to scientific investigations.

April 13, 2017

Drought in East Africa Predicted by Dataset

By Stephanie Pernett

A dataset compiled with the help of UCSB researchers has been able to predict droughts that have have been affecting East Africa

April 13, 2017

A Better Diet May Save Money and the Environment

By Stephanie Pernett

UCSB researcher David Cleveland and his colleagues have found that by making improvements in the standard American diet could reduce the amount of greenhouse gas emissions.

April 6, 2017

Cooperation May Lead to Coral Reef Improvement

By Aimee Miller

Two senior fellows at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis solution build a model to analysis how fixing road segments in Hawaii could benefit its coral reefs.