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5/17/2013
UCSB Assistant Professor Michelle O'Malley Receives 2013 DOE Early Career Award.
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– Michelle O'Malley, an assistant professor in UC Santa Barbara's Department of Chemical Engineering, has received a 2013 Early Career Award by the U.S. Department
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5/16/2013
Research into Carbon Storage in Arctic Tundra Reveals Unexpected Insight into Ecosystem Resiliency
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– When UC Santa Barbara doctoral student Seeta Sistla and her adviser, environmental studies professor Josh Schimel, went north not long ago to study how long-term
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5/16/2013
Alumni Couple, UC Santa Barbara Donors, Bridged Original and Current Campus
Trustee Lynn Reitnouer ('55) and wife Winnie ('54) longtime benefactors of alma mater
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– Lynn Paul Reitnouer played college basketball in the 1950's. He was a lithe, towering freshman from Monrovia starting a new chapter of his life at San Diego
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5/16/2013
Is Prophylactic Mastectomy a Universal Key to Breast Cancer Prevention? UCSB Feminist Studies Scholar Laury Oaks Addresses the Issue
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– Some people call them "previvors" –– individuals who survive a life-threatening illness, such as cancer, by taking dramatic preemptive measures to avoid
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5/15/2013
UC Santa Barbara Scientist Studies Methane Levels in Cross-Continent Drive
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– After taking a rented camper outfitted with special equipment to measure methane on a cross-continent drive, a UC Santa Barbara scientist has
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5/14/2013
UC Santa Barbara History Professor's Book Elucidates, Celebrates ‘Visioneers'
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– At the 2013 South by Southwest conference in Austin, Tex., entrepreneur and technology designer Elon Musk, founder of PayPal, Tesla Motors, and
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5/13/2013
UCSB Students Receive U.S. State Department Language Scholarships
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– Two UC Santa Barbara students have been awarded U.S. Department of State 2013 Critical Language Scholarships for Intensive Summer Institutes.
Graduate student
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5/13/2013
Lawrence D. Bobo, W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of Social Sciences at Harvard, to Deliver UCSB's Shirley Kennedy Memorial Lecture
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– Lawrence D. Bobo, a Harvard University scholar whose research focuses on the intersection of social inequality, politics, and race, will deliver UC Santa
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5/9/2013
Artist Favianna Rodriguez Donates Personal Papers to the UCSB Library
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– Favianna Rodriguez, the Oakland-based activist artist best known for bold posters and digital art that explore issues of social justice, has donated her
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5/8/2013
John Bowers Receives UCSB Faculty's Top Honor
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– John Bowers, professor of electrical and computer engineering and of materials at UC Santa Barbara, has been named Faculty Research Lecturer for 2013. The
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5/8/2013
Theater Troupe to Premiere Medieval –– and Bawdy –– French Farces at UCSB
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– They were the sitcoms of their time –– lowbrow comedies that lampooned every serious topic, from sex and relationships to politics and religion. Now a quartet
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5/7/2013
UCSB's Culture and Nature Series Kicks Off With ‘The Plague!' at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– Bubonic Plague. Yellow Fever. Cholera. H.I.V. and AIDS. For thousands of years, humans have faced devastating epidemics that suddenly kill millions and cause
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5/7/2013
UCSB Graduate Student Receives Fellowship From Autism Research Foundation
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– Avery Voos, a graduate student at UC Santa Barbara's Koegel Autism Center, has received a Dennis Weatherstone Pre-Doctoral Fellowship from Autism Speaks,
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5/6/2013
Mapping the Online Landscape to Predict, Prevent Digital Tipping Points
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– If somebody in a remote corner of the world sets fire to an American flag, but no one else is there to see it, did it really burn?
Absolutely.
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5/6/2013
Registration Open for Statewide Sustainability Conference at UC Santa Barbara
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– Hoping to bring greening into greater consciousness by sharing strategies for effective storytelling around such efforts, the 2013 California
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5/2/2013
UCSB Plous Lecture Will Explore Challenges of Endangered Species Conservation
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– The landmark federal Endangered Species Act –– the most powerful and comprehensive in United States environmental law, and the most ambitious biodiversity
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5/2/2013
UCSB's Economic Forecast Project Summit Analyzes World, National, Santa Barbara County Economies
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– "I'm optimistic," said Peter Rupert, professor and chair of economics at UC Santa Barbara, during his presentation at the 2013 Santa Barbara County Economic
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5/1/2013
Use of Laser Light Yields Versatile Manipulation of a Quantum Bit
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– By using light, researchers at UC Santa Barbara have manipulated the quantum state of a single atomic-sized defect in diamond –– the nitrogen-vacancy center
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5/1/2013
UCSB Institute for Energy Efficiency's Summit Focuses on a Sustainable Future
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– Some of the best and brightest minds in the field of energy efficiency gathered in Santa Barbara Wednesday morning to share ideas and discuss the newest
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5/1/2013
Solo Show at UCSB's MultiCultural Center Examines Notions of Racial Identity
Multimedia performance is produced by Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, and Chay Carter
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– When actress and playwright Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni married the love of her life in 2006, her father did not walk her down the aisle. In fact, he declined
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4/30/2013
UC Santa Barbara and The Trust for Public Land Partner to Restore Wetlands
Ocean Meadows to be preserved for public access, research, and teaching
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– With its characteristically large pectoral fins, big pouty mouth, and near-translucent appearance, the tidewater goby is a distinctive fish. Topping out
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4/30/2013
UC Santa Barbara Professor Galen Stucky Elected to National Academy of Sciences
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– UC Santa Barbara professor of chemistry and of materials Galen Stucky was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) for his excellence in
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4/29/2013
UCSB Researchers Successfully Treat Autism in Infants
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– Most infants respond to a game of peek-a-boo with smiles at the very least, and, for those who find the activity particularly entertaining, gales of laughter.
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4/29/2013
Exhibition at UCSB Art, Design & Architecture Museum Highlights Work of Architects Whitney Smith and Wayne Williams
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– From 1946 to 1973, Whitney Smith and his partner, Wayne Williams, designed more than 800 project, including residential, commercial, and public buildings,
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4/26/2013
Icelandic Novelist and Poet Sjón to Speak at UCSB
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– Icelandic author Sjón, whose novels and poems have been translated into 25 languages, will read from his work and discuss Icelandic literature's place within
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4/25/2013
UCSB Researcher Studies Correlation Between Changes in Hormone Levels and Variations in Sexual Motivation Among Young Women
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– Feeling frisky? If so, chances are greater your estrogen level –– and, perhaps, fertility –– are hitting their monthly peak. If not, you're more likely experiencing
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4/24/2013
UC Santa Barbara Employees Raise over $111,000 for United Way of Santa Barbara County
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– In a massive show of effort and good will, UC Santa Barbara employees raised over $111,000 for the local community, as part of the campus's 2013 United Way
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4/24/2013
Two UCSB Faculty Members Named Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– Gary Horowitz, professor of physics at UC Santa Barbara, and Ken C. Macdonald, professor emeritus of marine geophysics and earth science, have been elected
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4/23/2013
UCSB Neuroscientists Study Connectivity in the Human Brain
White matter functions like cable networks to connect different brain areas
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– The human brain is one of the most complex systems both in terms of its structural organization and of the diverse functionality that structure supports.
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4/23/2013
UCSB Religious Studies Scholar Receives Guggenheim Fellowship
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– Ann Taves, professor of religious studies at UC Santa Barbara, has received a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship for 2013. She is one of 175 artists, musicians,
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4/22/2013
UCSB's Early Academic Outreach Program Hosts UC Success Nights and Expanded Elementary School Swim Program
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– April is proving to be a particularly busy month for UC Santa Barbara's Early Academic Outreach Program (EAOP). With its weeklong series of UC Success Nights
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4/22/2013
UC Santa Barbara Scientist Identifies Protein Molecule Used to Maintain Adult Stem Cells in Fruit Flies
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– Understanding exactly how stem cells form into specific organs and tissues is the holy grail of regenerative medicine. Now a UC Santa Barbara
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4/18/2013
UCSB's North County Economic Summit Features Current Trends and Future Potential
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– The latest local economic trends and projections are the main topics of the UCSB Economic Forecast Project's North Santa Barbara County Economic Summit.
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4/18/2013
UCSB Offers Admission for Fall 2013 –– Its Most Selective Year Ever
Admissions Process Involves Hundreds of People and Thousands of Hours
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– For UC Santa Barbara's incoming freshman and transfer students, the admission process started long before the November application deadline. It began years
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4/17/2013
Fallout From the Federal Bailout Is Among the Topics of UCSB's 32nd Annual Santa Barbara County Economic Summit
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– As the country continues to climb out of the nation's worst economic downturn since the Great Depression, Main Street and Wall Street continue to be major
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4/17/2013
UCSB Ranked No. 2 in the World in Leiden Ranking of Top 500 Universities
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– In the latest rankings by the Centre for Science and Technology Studies at Leiden University in the Netherlands, UC Santa Barbara has placed second on the
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4/16/2013
UCSB Scholar, Conference Examine Value of Narrative Process
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– When comparative literature professor Susan Derwin taught her first writing workshop for student veterans at UC Santa Barbara, only three people signed up.
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4/15/2013
UCSB Faculty Member Named Education Association Fellow, Receives Award for Distinguished Career in Applied Sociology of Education
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– Russell Rumberger, a professor of education at UC Santa Barbara, has been named Fellow of the American Educational Research Association (AERA). He is among
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4/12/2013
UCSB Scientists Find Resilience in Shelled Plants Exposed to Ocean Acidification
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– Marine scientists have long understood the detrimental effect of fossil fuel emissions on marine ecosystems. But a group led by a UC Santa Barbara
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4/10/2013
Sustainability Efforts Soar, Score at UC Santa Barbara
Campus to host 2013 California Higher Education Sustainability Conference
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– It's the premier document of its kind in the University of California system, and now UC Santa Barbara's recently unveiled water conservation
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4/9/2013
Amgen Founder, Philanthropist Named Honorary Alumnus of UC Santa Barbara
UCSB benefactors Bill and Ute Bowes also attend investiture for chairs they endowed
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– Honored for his altruistic philanthropy, and celebrated for a decades-long devotion to improving health by advancing science, Amgen founder William
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4/8/2013
UC Santa Barbara Researchers Uncover New Pathways in Bacterial Intercellular Competition
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– There's an epic battle taking place that's not on the national radar: intercellular competition. While it's not an Olympic event, new research
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4/2/2013
UC Santa Barbara History Professor Receives Mellon New Directions Fellowship
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– Anthony Barbieri-Low always wanted to be an Egyptologist, and now, with a $238,700 New Directions Fellowship from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the UC
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4/1/2013
Television Producer Marcy Carsey Named Chair of UC Santa Barbara Foundation
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– Bringing the expertise gleaned from a successful career in the entertainment business –– and a passionate dedication to the university her children attended
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3/27/2013
UCSB Conference Will Address Key Issues Regarding Sea Level Rise
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– Over the next century, rising seas will transform coastlines and coastal zones around the world, from small islands to entire continents. "Figuring Sea Level
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3/26/2013
Mindfulness Improves Reading Ability, Working Memory, and Task-Focus, say UC Santa Barbara Researchers
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– If you think your inability to concentrate is a hopeless condition, think again –– and breathe, and focus. According to a study by researchers
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3/26/2013
Researchers Discover Sex-Selection Process of Multi-Sexed Organism Tetrahymena
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– It's been more than 50 years since scientists discovered that the single-celled organism Tetrahymena thermophila has seven sexes. But in all that time, they've
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3/25/2013
UCSB Theater Arts Scholar Wins Prestigious Book Prize
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– When President George W. Bush used the term "axis of evil" in his 2002 State of the Union Address and named North Korea among the world's worst perpetrators
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3/25/2013
NCEAS Research Sheds Light on Achieving Conservation's Holy Grail
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– Solutions that meet the broad, varied, and often competing priorities of conservation are difficult to come by. Research published in the March
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3/21/2013
Planck Mission Brings Universe Into Sharp Focus
UCSB physicists play key role in international effort to map the early universe
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– The Planck space mission today has released the most accurate and detailed map ever made of the oldest light in the universe, revealing new information
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3/20/2013
UCSB Art History Ph.D. Student Receives Rare Book School Fellowship
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) – For her dissertation project, Sophia Rochmes, a doctoral student in the history of art and architecture at UC Santa Barbara, is researching 15th-century
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3/18/2013
UC Santa Barbara's Water Action Plan Is the First of Its Kind In the UC System
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– A typical showerhead dispenses water at a rate of about 2.5 gallons per minute. On a large residential campus such as UC Santa Barbara, where
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3/18/2013
University of California's Unofficial Favorite Sea Slug Poised to Make a Comeback
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– After almost four decades of absence from local waters, a special sea slug appears to be making a comeback, and marine scientists at UC Santa
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