Science & Tech

October 27, 2016

The Santa Barbara Basin: Home of the Largest Underwater Bathtub Ring Caught on Camera

By Natalie Overton

“We expected to find changes in the biological community,” he said, “but we did not expect to find a mile-long colonization of bacteria.”

October 20, 2016

Gaucho Granted 600 Grand to Continue Research

By Andy Garcia

Gaucho alumna Victoria Orphan has recently been awarded a grant of $600,000 to continue her research of deep sea microorganisms. The creativity and future application of Orphan’s work stems from her unorthodox combinat...

October 20, 2016

Blurring the Boundaries of the Mind

By Dana Jessen

Tucked away in the Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences domicile is the University’s interdisciplinary brainchild, the S.A.G.E. Center for the Study of the Mind, where researchers are encouraged to come tog...

October 20, 2016

Mathematical Model To Predict Vein Growth

By Kirstie Allen

Imagine being able to predict the growth of the tumor. How about the vein growth of premature babies’ eyes? All of these applications and more can be determined with the use of a certain mathematical model. The model f...

October 13, 2016

UCSB Alumnus Adapts Pipe Flow Software to Engineering Student Needs

By Stephanie Pernett

A computer software program that is used in engineering industries is now available to students attending U.S. universities for the price of $10 a year.

October 13, 2016

The Anti-Resistance: UCSB Chemist Irene Chen Explores Alternatives to Antibiotics

By Kelly Shi

With an eye for creative impact, the National Institute of Health has awarded the Director’s New Innovator Award, a $2.1 million grant, to Chen to support her research on phage therapy.

October 6, 2016

UCSB Professors Receive Grant for Outer Space Research

By Kevin Flores

Coastal communities like Isla Vista and Santa Barbara are faced with an incessant barrage of environmental threats on a daily basis. Dealing with everything from eroding cliffs to excessive oil drilling, researchers are ...

October 6, 2016

Learning Patterns: A Look Into Freshman Seminars

By Kelly Shi

The announcement of the 2016 Nobel Prize awards will be broadcast this week internationally to an audience of billions. The discussion of its history will be presented to a much smaller audience in one of UC Santa Barbar...

September 29, 2016

UCSB Professor Receives $10 Million To Establish Benioff Ocean Initiative

By Kirstie Allen

The Benioff Ocean Initiative (BOI) is a foundation focused on helping universities understand the pressing problems the world’s oceans face. The BOI aims to find solutions resulting in cleaner and healthier oceans.

September 29, 2016

Polymer Brush Growing Made Easier and Faster

By Dana Jessen

A team led by Christian Pester and Craig J. Hawker of the Materials Research Laboratory at UCSB has recently invented a new process called sequential stop-flow photopatterning to create complex micron-sized, polymer brus...

September 22, 2016

Competition Begets Life-Saving Innovation

By Stephanie Pernett

UCSB alumnus participates in a competition with the goal of inventing a device that relays danger.

September 14, 2016

Cosmic Watch Brings Space Exploration to Smartphones

By Stephanie Pernett

The stars and planets above us may now be easier to spot with the development of a new app, Cosmic Watch, that turns your smartphone into an interactive 3D astronomical time device. Serving as a modern astronomical instr...

September 14, 2016

De-extinction: Not Just Science Fiction Anymore

By Dana Jessen

As the intriguing phenomenon of de-extinction becomes less like science fiction, UCSB ecologists have published a list of basic criteria to ensure de-extinction is as beneficial and sustainable as possible.

August 31, 2016

Chemistry 101: The Classic Potato + Iodine = Blue/Black Experiment Finally Has an Explanation

By Dana Jessen

An exciting collaboration between the Chemistry Department and the Materials Research Laboratory at UCSB has unexpectedly solved a 200 year-old chemistry enigma.

August 25, 2016

50 Years of Education, Innovation and Technology

By Stephanie Pernett

An interdisciplinary culture of innovation committed to developing new technology in ways that benefit the world, the UCSB College of Engineering has proven itself as one of the most successful public research institutio...

August 25, 2016

What Came First: The Venus Table or the Feathered Serpent?

By Dana Jessen

Gerardo Aldana, a professor in the Chicana and Chicano Studies and Anthropology Departments at UCSB, presents a new interpretation of the Venus Table, which tracks the observable phases of the planet, in the Maya book, T...