Science & Tech

Excel in Office on the Cheap

March 4, 2015 by

Gauchos know that making a dollar stretch as far as possible is a top priority. One course tool that nearly all students use that is not only overpriced, but also costs a student-budget fortune, is Mi...
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UCSB Hosts Sustainable Seafood Summit

February 19, 2015 by

As part of the University of California Global Food Initiative, UCSB hosted its first “Food from the Sea” summit yesterday, which focused on the role of fisheries and aquaculture in global food sy...
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UCSB Researchers Tackle Pediatric Diabetes With Artificial Pancreas

February 12, 2015 by

Type 1 diabetic patients know that the responsibilities necessary to manage life with the disease are all routine: monitoring food consumption, maintaining a balance in physical activity and tracking ...
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UCSB Microbial Oceanographer Receives Prestigious Award

February 5, 2015 by

Craig Carlson of UC Santa Barbara’s Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology was awarded the prestigious G. Evelyn Hutchinson Award by the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and O...
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Kim Lewis brings the environment into the labroratory to develop antiobiotics to counter the growing antimicrobial-resistant bacteria that are threatening effective treatment of infections.
Kim Lewis brings the environment into the labroratory to develop antiobiotics to counter the growing antimicrobial-resistant bacteria that are threatening effective treatment of infections.

Tricking Soil Bacteria to Grow in Lab: Discovering a Class of Antibiotics to Combat Drug-Resistant Bacteria

January 23, 2015 by

Finding new antibiotics to combat the growing list of antimicrobial-resistant bacteria is crucial to fighting infections and maintaining food supplies. Now, scientists are introducing the first new cl...
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PHOTO COURTESY OF Scott Hamilton

Size Matters: Smaller Fish and Endangered Reefs

January 15, 2015 by

UC Santa Barbara research biologist Jenn Caselle recently published a study revealing the importance of and threats to the California sheephead fish (Semicossyphus pulcher) in maintaining healthy mari...
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PHOTO COURTESY OF Scott Hamilton

UCSB Alums Found – and Grow – Apeeling Food Technology Company

January 15, 2015 by

Apeel Sciences is a start-up that aims to reduce worldwide food waste and pesticide-use through ultrathin film-like crop sprays that extend the shelf life of produce and camouflage the growing crops f...
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UCSB Researchers Successfully Immortalize Rodent Stem Cells

December 4, 2014 by

Researchers led by UC Santa Barbara Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology professor James Thomson recently found a way to hold mouse stem cells on the threshold of differentiation, allowing them t...
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Santa Barbara’s Doctors Without Walls Turns Tech

November 20, 2014 by

Beyond the beaches and beautiful weather of Santa Barbara lies a prevalent homeless population. Since 2008, however, the organization Doctors Without Walls — Santa Barbara Street Medicine (DWW-SBSM)...
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MCDB Professor Receives Grant to Study Polycystic Kidney Disease

November 20, 2014 by

UCSB Professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology Thomas Weimbs, was recently awarded a three-year grant for $600,000 by the Lillian Goldman Charitable Trust of New York to support his l...
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A Week of Science Round-Ups

October 23, 2014 by

1. Top-secret military space plane returns from orbit. On Oct. 17, an ultra-secret space plane belonging to the United States Air Force touched down in Southern California. Unbeknownst to the world, t...
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A Look Into the Physics Behind Shuji Nakamura’s Nobel Prize

October 16, 2014 by

Shuji Nakamura, Professor of Materials and Research Director of the Solid State Lighting and Energy Electronics Center (SSLEEC) at UCSB, recently received the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics from the Roya...
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Adding Mathematics to the Biological Equation

October 9, 2014 by

Mathematics can be used to express a variety of phenomena; a masterful Mozart sonata, for example, can be represented as an elaborate sequence of longitudinal pressure waves or acoustic wave functions...
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UCSB Outreach Allows Kids Deep-Sea Insight

October 9, 2014 by

UCSB’s Marine Science Institute (MSI) is partnering with Robert Ballard — most famously known for his discovery of the Titanic — through the MSI’s new facility for Outreach to Teach Ocean Scie...
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UCSB Engineers Introduce An Innovative Biosensor that Rivals Graphene in Sensitivity

September 25, 2014 by

UC Santa Barbara researchers recently engineered a 2-D next-generation field-effect transistor (FET) biosensor using molybdenum disulfide (MoS2), a compound 75 times more sensitive than graphene in de...
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