Science & Tech

Photonics Society Wins ‘Chapter of the Year’ Award

April 18, 2016 by

UCSB’s student chapter of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Photonics Society won the 2016 “Chapter of the Year” award.
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UCSB Professor Leads Alzheimer’s Trial

April 14, 2016 by

Kenneth Kosik, professor of neuroscience at UCSB, has been running drug trials with Colombian families who are genetically predisposed to Alzheimer’s disease
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Phenology Emphasizes Importance of Pollen

April 14, 2016 by

Susan Mazer, UCSB professor of ecology and evolution, explains that despite pollen’s small size, it is an essential part of the life cycle and genetic diversity of plants
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Assembly Discusses Computer Science Education, Women in S.T.E.M.

April 11, 2016 by

Members of the California Select Committee on STEM Education spoke out against barriers to computer science education in California’s schools at a meeting of the state Assembly on Thursday.
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NASA Approves Study of Ocean Carbon Cycles

April 7, 2016 by

In a plan recently approved by NASA, researchers from UCSB and other institutions have developed a study for a major NASA field campaign to quantify the state of the ocean carbon cycle from satellite ...
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City Rejects Desalination Plant Study Revision

April 7, 2016 by

Santa Barbara City Council declined to revise a study on the feasibility of alternatives for the Charles E. Meyer Desalination Plant at a council meeting on March 22.
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Fecal Matter to Fuel: UCSB Lab Does the Dirty Work

April 5, 2016 by

Get a load o' this shit.
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Paleontologist Finds ‘The Lost Giant’ on Expedition to Sahara Desert

April 4, 2016 by

In 2008, National Geographic paleontologist Nizar Ibrahim was on an African expedition when he and his team found “the lost giant” of the Sahara—the Spinosaurus—he told UCSB students Sunday.
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Healthcare Apps Save Money, Lose Interaction

April 1, 2016 by

With a rise in mobile healthcare applications, “telehealth” services such as Lemonaid Health, Maven, Doctor on Demand and Nurx are providing students with increasingly immediate medical assistance...
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Capps’s H.O.P.E. Act Yields Two Successful Surgeries

March 31, 2016 by and

Johns Hopkins University Medical Center announced the first successful HIV-positive organ donation on Wednesday, made possible by the HIV Organ Policy Equity (H.O.P.E.) Act, sponsored by Santa Barbara...
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Organs Made to Order

March 9, 2016 by

A team at Wake Forest University has refined the process of 3D-printing to create human body parts such as ears, muscles and jawbones, through a combination of living cells and a special gel.
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Sylvester’s Guide to Roadside Geology

March 3, 2016 by

Since his retirement, Arthur Sylvester has been researching and leading student tours all throughout Southern California.
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Cloudy With a Chance of Monsoons

March 3, 2016 by

Recently, there has been a rise in debates and information regarding intense weather events. Californians are not the only ones experiencing both extreme drought and dangerous flooding; there has been...
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How to Prevent Alzheimer’s 101

February 25, 2016 by

How many times have you walked into a room and forgotten what you needed? Forgetfulness is a part of everyone’s daily lives, but many fear that as they age and their scatter-brained tendencies incre...
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The Kidney-Saving Diet

February 25, 2016 by

Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) is a genetic disease, characterized by giant fluid-filled cyst growing in the kidneys, which enlarges the organ to potentially fatal sizes. Treatment for slowing or sto...
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