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7/1/2009
Alzheimer's Research Yields Potential Drug Target
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– Scientists at UC Santa Barbara and several other institutions have found laboratory evidence that a cluster of peptides may be the toxic agent in Alzheimer's
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6/29/2009
Study of Flower Color Shows Evolution in Action
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– Scientists at UC Santa Barbara have zeroed in on the genes responsible for changing flower color, an area of research that began with Gregor Mendel's studies
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6/25/2009
UCSB's Department of Religious Studies to Offer Three New Languages
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– Expanding its already extensive course offerings in Middle Eastern and South Asian languages, the UCSB Department of Religious Studies will add classes this
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6/24/2009
New Book by UCSB History Scholar Examines Wal-Mart
as a Business Model
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– Wal-Mart has come a long way since 1962, when founder Sam Walton opened his first discount store in Rogers, Arkansas. With nearly 8,000 retail outlets in
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6/22/2009
Local Residents Serve as Officers of the UC Santa Barbara Foundation
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– Several distinguished business and community leaders will serve as officers of the board of trustees of the UC Santa Barbara Foundation for the 2009-2010
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6/16/2009
UCSB TO HOST UC, CSU, CCC SUSTAINABILITY CONFERENCE
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– This won't be the first time that UC Santa Barbara will host the annual UC, CSU, CCC Sustainability Conference –– UCSB has been the site for the event four
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6/16/2009
Record Number of Admitted Students Indicate Plans to Attend UCSB in Fall
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– The University of California, Santa Barbara experienced a very robust response to its offers of admission for fall 2009. A total of 4,871 successful applicants
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6/15/2009
UCSB, County Fire Department to Conduct Prescribed Burn
on Lagoon Island
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– The Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration (CCBER), the UC Santa Barbara Fire Department, and the Santa Barbara County Fire Department
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6/15/2009
Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology Scholar Receives Harold J. Plous Award
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– Bradley Cardinale, an assistant professor of ecology, evolution, and marine biology, has received the 2009-10 Harold J. Plous Award. One of the university's
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6/11/2009
Scientists Find That Squid's Bioluminescence Comes From Eye-Related Genes
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– Scientists have found that a small Hawaiian squid can hide itself by using an organ with the same genes found in its eye.
Using a process called bioluminescence,
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6/11/2009
Religious Studies Scholar Publishes Volume on Islam
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– Juan E. Campo, associate professor of religious studies at UC Santa Barbara, has published the "Encyclopedia of Islam" (Facts on File, 2009). It is part
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6/10/2009
UCSB Chamber Choir Prepares for Italy Concert Tour
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– The UC Santa Barbara Chamber Choir, made up of 34 graduate and undergraduate students, will depart June 15 for a 15-day performance tour of Italy, with stops
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6/9/2009
Four UCSB Graduating Seniors Win Top Academic Awards
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) – Four graduating seniors in the College of Letters and Science at UC Santa Barbara have been selected to receive awards for outstanding academic achievement
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6/9/2009
Ph.D. Student is Named Winner of First WiSE Diversity Award at UCSB
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– Juliana Bernal Ostos, a second-year Ph.D. student in UC Santa Barbara's Materials Department, has been named winner of the 2009 WiSE Diversity Award.
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6/8/2009
Top Awards Presented to Three Outstanding UCSB Graduating Seniors
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– Three remarkable graduating seniors at UC Santa Barbara have been named winners of the university's top awards for their scholastic achievement, their extraordinary
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6/4/2009
UCSB Students, Faculty Member Receive Chancellor's Research Awards
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– Three graduating seniors, two graduate students, and a faculty member have been recognized for their outstanding contributions to undergraduate research
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6/4/2009
Researchers Test Nanoparticle to Treat Cardiovascular Disease in Mice
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– Scientists and engineers at UC Santa Barbara and other researchers have developed a nanoparticle that can attack plaque –– a major cause of cardiovascular
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6/3/2009
Number of UCSB Patents, Inventions Increases in 2008
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– From the atomic force microscope to light-emitting diodes, UC Santa Barbara has cemented its place as a world leader in scientific advancements and inventions.
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6/3/2009
Six UC Santa Barbara Senior Women Awarded Surprise
Cash Academic Prizes
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) – Six graduating women will receive cash awards totaling $51,000 from the now-defunct Santa Barbara City Club, whose members established the program 29 years
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6/2/2009
UCSB Will Graduate 4,500 Students in Eight Commencement Ceremonies
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) – Approximately 4,500 graduating students will take part in one of eight official commencement ceremonies scheduled at UC Santa Barbara over eight days starting
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6/2/2009
Renowned Geographer Reginald Golledge Dies in Santa Barbara
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– Reginald Golledge, 71, an internationally recognized scholar and professor of geography at UC Santa Barbara for more than three decades, died at home on
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5/28/2009
UCSB Researchers Describe Breakthrough in the Quantum Control of Light
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– Researchers at UC Santa Barbara have recently demonstrated a breakthrough in the quantum control of photons, the energy quanta of light. This is a significant
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5/28/2009
2009 Economic Outlook for Santa Ynez Valley Topic of June 5th UCSB Seminar in Solvang
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– The prospects for the Santa Ynez Valley economy in the year ahead will be the topic of a special morning seminar to be presented by the UC Santa Barbara
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5/27/2009
First Confirmed Case of H1N1 Flu in Santa Barbara County
(Santa Barbara) –– The Santa Barbara County Public Health Department and UC Santa Barbara health officials have reported a confirmed case of H1N1 flu in the county. The state laboratory
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5/26/2009
Scientists Find Microfossils Challenge Prevailing Views of the Effects of ‘Snowball Earth' Glaciations on Life
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– New fossil findings discovered by scientists at UC Santa Barbara challenge prevailing views about the effects of "Snowball Earth" glaciations on life, according
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5/26/2009
UCSB Restoration Project Provides Model for Future Efforts
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– When UC Santa Barbara built the Manzanita Village student housing project in 1999, the California Coastal Commission required that it mitigate the project's
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5/21/2009
UCSB Receives NSF Grant for Cloud Computing Research
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– UC Santa Barbara is one of 14 universities sharing nearly $5 million in grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to participate in the IBM/Google
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5/20/2009
Study Reveals Role of Evolutionary Processes
in Species Coexistence, Diversity
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– A team of researchers, addressing longstanding conflicts in ecology and evolutionary science, has provided key directions for the future of community
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5/20/2009
Discount Registration Deadline Approaches
for Sustainability Conference at UCSB
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– If you're hoping to attend the 2009 UC, CSU, CCC Sustainability Conference at UC Santa Barbara June 21-24, you might want to register by next Tuesday, May
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5/19/2009
UCSB Conference Commemorates 40th Anniversary of El Plan de Santa Barbara
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– In April 1969, a group of Chicano students, professors, and community activists met at UC Santa Barbara for a historic conference that would mark an important
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5/19/2009
Woodrow Wilson Foundation Fellowships Awarded
to UCSB Graduate Student
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation has awarded Leandra Zarnow, a doctoral candidate in history and feminist studies at UC Santa Barbara, a
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5/18/2009
Summer Program Allows High School Students
to Conduct University Research
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– Talented high school students have an opportunity to conduct cutting edge research and get a jump on their college careers through UC Santa Barbara's Research
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5/14/2009
Satellite Developed at UCSB Launched Today
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– A rocket launched today from French Guiana carried a satellite called Planck that scientists at UC Santa Barbara helped to design. The project is a collaboration
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5/14/2009
UCSB Professor Presents First Public Screening of New Film on Mothering
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– "Birthright: Mothering Across Difference," a film by Celine Parreñas Shimizu, associate professor of Asian American studies at UC Santa Barbara, will have
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5/13/2009
UCSB Scientists Document Fate of Huge Oil Slicks
From Seeps at Coal Oil Point
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– Twenty years ago, the oil tanker Exxon Valdez was exiting Alaska's Prince William Sound when it struck a reef in the middle of the night. What happened next
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5/13/2009
Voters Give Obama High Marks, According to New Zogby Poll
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– In his inaugural address, Barack Obama called for "a new era of responsibility." Recently, he pointed to a "confidence gap, when it comes to the American
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5/12/2009
UCSB'S SAN CLEMENTE GRADUATE STUDENT HOUSING PROJECT
RECEIVES GOLD CERTIFICATION FROM GREEN BUILDING COUNCIL
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– UC Santa Barbara's San Clemente Villages graduate student housing complex has been awarded the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) gold-level
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5/11/2009
Scientists Map West Coast Areas Most Affected by Humans
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– Climate change, fishing, and commercial shipping top the list of threats to the ocean off the West Coast of the United States.
"Every single spot of the
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5/7/2009
UCSB Political Scientist Elected to National Academy of Education
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– Lorraine McDonnell, professor of political science at UC Santa Barbara, has been elected to the National Academy of Education (NAEd). She is the only scholar
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5/7/2009
UCSB UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCHERS SHOWCASE THEIR WORK
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– Undergraduate researchers at UC Santa Barbara will present their discoveries and creative accomplishments at the annual Undergraduate Research Colloquium
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5/5/2009
UCSB Conference Examines the Role of Literature and the Arts in Sustainability
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– What does it take for people in one part of the world to become so distressed by an environmental crisis thousands of miles away that they adopt that crisis
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5/5/2009
UCSB Recreation Department Announces Friday Surf & Turf Events
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– Looking for a great way to end your work week with some exercise and fun? The UC Santa Barbara Recreation Department might have the solution.
Starting this
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