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11/19/2009
UCSB Physicists Move One Step Closer to Quantum Computing
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– Physicists at UC Santa Barbara have made an important advance in electrically controlling quantum states of electrons, a step that could help in the development
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11/19/2009
UCSB Co-Sponsors Fall Rummage Sale in Isla Vista
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– The first annual GIVE fall rummage sale will be held on Sunday, November 22, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the parking lot of UC Santa Barbara's
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11/18/2009
UCSB's NCEAS is Partner in DataONE, a New Global Data Access Network
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– Researchers at the University of California, including UC Santa Barbara's National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS), have partnered with
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11/17/2009
UCSB History, Environmental Studies Scholar to Discuss Endangered Species
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– In 1889, a large male California grizzly bear was captured in the San Gabriel Mountains at the behest of newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst. Given
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11/12/2009
New Books Published by UCSB French and Italian Scholars
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– Three faculty members in the Department of French and Italian at UC Santa Barbara have published new books ranging in subject from deadly medieval theater
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11/10/2009
Famed Artist Esteban Villa to Speak at UCSB and in Santa Barbara
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) ––Esteban Villa, a renowned artist, master muralist, and co-founder of the Sacramento-based artists collective known as the Royal Chicano Air Force, will discuss
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11/10/2009
Fulbright Scholars From Canada, Europe, and the Middle East to Study at UCSB
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– The Fulbright Scholar Program has awarded grants to seven researchers from Korea, Spain, Canada, and the Middle East to study at UC Santa Barbara during
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11/9/2009
Literary Scholar at UCSB to Receive Lifetime Achievement Award
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) ––Shirley Geok-Lin Lim, a professor of English at UC Santa Barbara, is the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society of the Study of the
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11/5/2009
‘Galileo, the Universe, and God': UCSB Science and Humanities Faculty to Discuss Legacy of Galileo and his Astronomical Discoveries
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– Galileo Galilei is revered as the father of modern science, a true Renaissance man who made important discoveries in astronomy, physics, mathematics,
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11/5/2009
New Type of Supernova Explosion Reported; Predicted by Theoretical Physicists at UCSB
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– A new class of supernova was discovered by scientists at Berkeley and may be the first example of a new type of exploding star. A team of astrophysicists
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11/4/2009
Trayless Dining, Composting Projects Are Sustainability Successes at UCSB
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– Two of UC Santa Barbara's latest sustainability projects –– trayless dining and composting –– are proving to be very successful, enhancing UCSB's reputation
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11/3/2009
New UC Santa Barbara Police Chief Takes Up Duties
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– A new chief of the UC Santa Barbara Police Department has taken up his duties this week.
Dustin Olson, formerly the Assistant Chief of Police at the University
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11/3/2009
UCSB Affiliates Explore Energy Production, Conservation, and Efficiency
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– A new Science Lite lecture series presented by the UCSB Affiliates will explore various aspects of energy, including production, conservation, and efficiency.
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11/2/2009
UCSB Scientists Say Size of Area Lagoons Can Be Predicted, Helping Steelhead Trout Recovery
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– The size of Santa Barbara area lagoons can be predicted, according to a new study by UC Santa Barbara scientists, who say that their research could help
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10/29/2009
Bay Area Event to Focus on UCSB's DigitalOcean Program
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– The DigitalOcean project at UC Santa Barbara is going on the road –– all the way to San Francisco's Pier 39 –– for a special event on Sunday, November 8,
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10/28/2009
UCSB Joins in $20 Million Grant for Vision Research Using Stem Cells
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– UC Santa Barbara will receive $2.5 million of a $20 million, multi-institution grant for vision research. The research will focus on macular degeneration,
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10/28/2009
Two UCSB Series Will Focus on Oil, Water and Impact of 1969 Santa Barbara Spill
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– As oil in many ways defined the economy and politics of the last century, experts believe that water will be a defining element of the 21st
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10/26/2009
Discussions, Roundtables on the Future of the University Sponsored by UCSB
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– The California Master Plan for Higher Education of 1960 was built on a foundation of state-supported higher education. That plan and its promise are now
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10/26/2009
Geography, Psychology Scholars Give Lectures in Memory of Reginald Golledge
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– In memory of Reginald Golledge, the professor of geography at UC Santa Barbara who was named the 2009 Faculty Research Lecturer –– the highest honor that
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10/22/2009
UCSB Announces First-Ever Sustainability Champions
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– Food and energy –– two of the world's most important resources –– are what fuel the research and fervor of UC Santa Barbara's first-ever Sustainability Champions.
For
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10/22/2009
UCSB Trades Union Agrees to Furloughs
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– The University of California Office of the President released the following announcement today:
University of California officials announced today that
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10/21/2009
UCSB's External Research Funding Shows Slight Decline
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– UC Santa Barbara's external research funding slipped a bit in fiscal 2009. Due in part to the country's financial crisis, UCSB's external funding total of
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10/21/2009
Geologist Analyzes Earliest Shell-Covered Fossil Animals
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– The fossil remains of some of the first animals with shells, ocean-dwelling creatures that measure a few centimeters in length and date to about 520 million
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10/21/2009
Suspect in UCSB South Hall Incident Taken Into Custody
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Department and UC Santa Barbara police announced today that a man taken into custody in Isla Vista Tuesday evening is believed
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10/20/2009
UCSB Chancellor Henry Yang To Chair Association of American Universities
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– Henry T. Yang, chancellor of the University of California, Santa Barbara, has been elected chair of the Association of American Universities, a nonprofit
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10/20/2009
Author Graciela Limón to Receive UCSB's Luis Leal Literature Award
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– Writer and educator Graciela Limón is the recipient of UC Santa Barbara's 2009 Luis Leal Award for Distinction in Chicano/Latino Literature. The award, which
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10/19/2009
Large-Scale Camera Network Part of New Study at UCSB
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– B. S. Manjunath came up with the idea for his latest research project during a faculty meeting a few years ago. The UC Santa Barbara professor of electrical
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10/19/2009
UCSB Anthropologist Studies Human Life Span, Evolution of Physiology
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– A remote Amazonian tribe in central Bolivia may offer proof that heart attack and stroke –– the leading causes of death in the United States and other developed
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10/19/2009
UCSB Police Respond Quickly to Report of Suspicious Person at South Hall
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– UC Santa Barbara police are investigating an incident in which a suspicious person was seen on the sixth-floor balcony of the campus's South Hall. One caller
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10/16/2009
Jeff Dozier of UCSB's Bren School Wins Microsoft Research's Jim Gray Award
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– Jeff Dozier, a professor and founding dean of UC Santa Barbara's Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, has today been awarded Microsoft Research's
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10/15/2009
Fall Shows at UCSB's University Art Museum Highlight
Photography, Travel, and Death –– Plus a Zombie
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) ––The depth of the extensive photography collection at UC Santa Barbara's University Art Museum will be on display in two of the museum's four fall exhibitions,
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10/15/2009
UCSB Geologist Wins National Award
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– Douglas Burbank, professor of earth science at UC Santa Barbara, has been selected as the 2009 winner of the Don J. Easterbrook Distinguished Scientist Award
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10/14/2009
UCSB Early Academic Outreach Presents Higher Education Week
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) ––The Early Academic Outreach Program at UC Santa Barbara is hosting Higher Education Week, a four-day event beginning October 20. It will bring representatives
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10/7/2009
UCSB Nanotechnology Breast Cancer Study Receives $2.8 Million Grant
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– Erkki Ruoslahti, professor at UC Santa Barbara's Burnham Institute for Medical Research, is the recipient of a $2.8 million award from the Department of
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10/6/2009
Private Giving for UC Santa Barbara Reached $40.6 Million in 2008-09, Bringing Campus's Campaign Total to $544 Million
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– The Campaign for UC Santa Barbara continues to attract strong philanthropic support for the campus, thus far generating a total of $544 million for priority
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10/5/2009
UCSB Alumna Carol W. Greider Shares Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– Carol W. Greider, a graduate of the University of California, Santa Barbara, has been awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Greider shares
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10/5/2009
Teach-In at UCSB to Explore Solutions to UC Budget Crisis
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– With UC's budget crisis generating fee increases, layoffs, furloughs, and frustration, a group of faculty and staff members and students at UC Santa Barbara
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10/1/2009
Conference at UCSB Examines Environmental and Resource Economics
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– Economic and environmental scholars from universities across the United States, Canada, and Europe will gather at UC Santa Barbara for the 11th Occasional
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10/1/2009
UC Santa Barbara to Close Off-Campus Studies Center in Ventura
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– The University of California, Santa Barbara has announced plans to close its Ventura Center for Off-Campus Studies. The decision was made for financial reasons,
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9/29/2009
UCSB Geologist Receives Prestigious German Award
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– Tanya Atwater, professor emeritus of earth science at UC Santa Barbara, will be awarded the Leopold von Buch Medal of the German Geosciences Society. It
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9/28/2009
Federal Stimulus Grants Support Diverse Research at UCSB
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– With funds made available through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), more than 40 grants already have been awarded to research projects
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9/24/2009
UCSB Dean of Social Sciences Joins W.T. Grant Foundation Board of Trustees
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– Melvin Oliver, the SAGE Sara Miller McCune Dean of Social Sciences and a professor of sociology at UC Santa Barbara, is one of four new members appointed
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9/23/2009
Scientists Outline Planetary Boundaries: A Safe Operating Space for Humanity
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– New approaches are needed to help humanity deal with climate change and other global environmental threats that lie ahead in the 21st century,
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9/23/2009
Physicists at UC Santa Barbara Make Discovery in Quantum Mechanics
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– Physicists at UC Santa Barbara have made an important advance in quantum mechanics using a superconducting electrical circuit. The finding is reported in
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9/22/2009
UCSB Unveils New Three-Building Education, Social Sciences, Media Studies Complex
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– The newest addition to UC Santa Barbara is an impressive three-building complex that adds 209,750 square feet of high-tech classrooms, offices, meeting rooms,
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9/21/2009
UCSB Historian to Discuss Wal-Mart and the Future of American Business
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– A retail giant that began as a corner store in a small Arkansas town, Wal-Mart has become the largest private employer in the world. It is a typical American
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9/17/2009
UCSB Taking Precautions for Possible Next Wave of H1N1 Flu
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– After dealing with multiple cases of the H1N1 "swine flu" virus in late spring and early summer, UC Santa Barbara health officials are preparing
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9/15/2009
UCSB Offers ‘School for Scientific Thought' for High School Students
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) – A total of 100 high school students have enrolled in UC Santa Barbara's new "School for Scientific Thought" to learn about "Mutants, Spirals, and Riots,"
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9/15/2009
Reading Kafka Improves Learning, Suggests UCSB Psychology Study
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– Reading a book by Franz Kafka –– or watching a film by director David Lynch –– could make you smarter.
According to research by psychologists at UC Santa
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9/10/2009
Biologist Honored for 50 Years of Service at UCSB
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– Research Professor (Emeritus) Eduardo Orias will be honored for his 50 years of service at UC Santa Barbara during an all-day research colloquium to be held
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9/9/2009
UCSB Researchers Develop Drug Delivery System Using Nanoparticles and Lasers
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– Researchers at UC Santa Barbara have developed a new way to deliver drugs into cancer cells by exposing them briefly to a non-harmful laser. Their results
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9/3/2009
UCSB Receives NSF Grant to Preserve Herbarium, Algae Collections
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– Tucked away in a room beneath the bleachers at the south end of UC Santa Barbara's Harder Stadium, the 100,000 specimens stored in the herbarium of the Cheadle
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9/2/2009
UCSB Ranked Among Top U.S. Universities by Washington Monthly
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– UC Santa Barbara has been ranked number 21 in a list of the Top 30 National Universities released today by Washington Monthly magazine in its September/October
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9/1/2009
UCSB Chemist Named Fellow of the American Chemical Society
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– Michael T. Bowers, professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at UC Santa Barbara, has been named a Fellow of the American Chemical Society
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8/27/2009
The Invasive Green Mussel May Inspire New Forms of Wet Adhesion
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– The green mussel is known for being a notoriously invasive fouling species, but scientists have just discovered that it also has a very powerful form of
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8/25/2009
UCSB Scientists Propose Antarctic Location for ‘Missing' Ice Sheet
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– New research by scientists at UC Santa Barbara indicates a possible Antarctic location for ice that seemed to be missing at a key point in climate history
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8/24/2009
UCSB Scientists Discover Potential Drug Delivery System
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– Scientists at UC Santa Barbara have discovered a potential new drug delivery system. The finding is a biological mechanism for delivery of nanoparticles
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8/20/2009
UCSB Ranked Among Country's Best Universities by U.S. News & World Report
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– U.S. News & World Report has ranked UC Santa Barbara number 11 in its annual listing of the "Top 50 Public National Universities" in the country, and number
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8/20/2009
Chief Executive of Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas to Speak at UCSB
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– Richard W. Fisher, president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, will speak at UC Santa Barbara on Thursday, September 3.
His
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8/13/2009
UCSB Ethnic and Multicultural Archive Launches Teatro Campesino Online
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– More than 100 vintage video recordings of the world- renowned Latino theater company El Teatro Campesino are now available online courtesy of the California
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8/12/2009
UCSB's Blue Horizon Student Filmmakers to Screen Their Work
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– A series of short films produced by students in Blue Horizons, UC Santa Barbara's summer program for environmental media, will screen on Friday, August 21,
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8/12/2009
Scientists Demonstrate Importance of Niche Differences in Biodiversity
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– Scientists at UC Santa Barbara have found strong evidence that niche differences are critical to biodiversity. Their findings are published online in this
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8/11/2009
Experiments at UCSB Push Quantum Mechanics to Higher Levels
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– Scientists at UC Santa Barbara have devised a new type of superconducting circuit that behaves quantum mechanically –– but has up to five levels of energy
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8/10/2009
UCSB's Bren Hall Is Nation's First Building to Earn
‘Double Platinum' Rating for Sustainability
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– Bren Hall, which houses the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management at UC Santa Barbara, has become the nation's first building to earn two LEED
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8/10/2009
UC Santa Barbara and Burnham Institute for Medical Research Announce Director of New Joint Research Center for Nanomedicine
(La Jolla and Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– The Burnham Institute for Medical Research and the University of California, Santa Barbara have named leading biomedical researcher Jamey D.
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8/6/2009
UCSB Library Awarded Second National Endowment for the Humanities Grant To Document Historical Sound Recordings by Victor Talking Machine Company
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– The University Library at UC Santa Barbara has been awarded a second National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant to further develop an online encyclopedia
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8/5/2009
New Book by UCSB Scholar Offers Firsthand Account of a North Korean Labor Camp Survivor
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– In 1993, Kim Yong was a model North Korean citizen. Dedicated to his country and its leaders, the lieutenant colonel in the National Security Agency (NSA)
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8/5/2009
UCSB Projects Receive Multi-Campus UC Research Awards
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– Six research programs based at UC Santa Barbara have received awards in the 2009 University of California Multi-Campus Research Programs and Initiatives
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8/4/2009
UCSB Study Links Strength and Beauty to Anger, Pro-War Attitudes
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– Anthropologists, psychologists, and other experts in human behavior have long recognized anger as a universal emotion. Evident in humans across all cultures,
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8/4/2009
Scientists Isolate Protein that may be ‘Boon' to Medicine
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– Scientists at UC Santa Barbara have isolated a unique protein that appears to have a dual function and could lead to a "boon in medicine." The findings are
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8/3/2009
Chemists Explain the Switchboards in our Cells
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– Our cells are controlled by billions of molecular "switches" and chemists at UC Santa Barbara have developed a theory that explains how these molecules work.
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7/30/2009
Scientists Document Prospects for Recovery of Fisheries,
Call for More Global Action
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– Scientists have joined forces in a groundbreaking assessment on the status of marine fisheries and ecosystems. The two-year study, based at the University
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7/28/2009
Alan Stephens, Renowned Poet and Scholar, Dies in Santa Barbara
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– Alan Archer Stephens, 83, a renowned poet and founding faculty member of UC Santa Barbara's College of Creative Studies (CCS), died July 21 after a long
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7/28/2009
UCSB Scientist Appointed to New Post at Large Hadron Collider Experiment
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– Already a key player in the team of UC Santa Barbara physicists working at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Europe for the past two years,
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7/27/2009
Driving Fast –– New Book by UCSB English Scholar Examines the Thrill of Speed
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– As fighter pilot Pete "Maverick" Mitchell walks across the tarmac toward his F-14 Tomcat in the 1986 film "Top Gun," he turns to his co-pilot and says, "I
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7/21/2009
Collaboration Involves UC, Caltech, Canadian Universities
MAUNA KEA SELECTED FOR THIRTY METER TELESCOPE
After careful evaluation and comparison between two outstanding candidate sites –– Mauna Kea in Hawaii and Cerro Armazones in Chile –– the board of directors of the TMT Observatory
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7/21/2009
Tiny Diamonds on Santa Rosa Island Give Evidence of Cosmic Impact
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– Nanosized diamonds found just a few meters below the surface of Santa Rosa Island off the coast of Santa Barbara provide strong evidence of a cosmic impact
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7/20/2009
UCSB Professor Receives National Mentoring Award
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– Steven Gaines, professor of ecology, evolution and marine biology at UC Santa Barbara, has received the inaugural Marc J. Hershman Excellence in Mentoring
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7/15/2009
UCSB Director of Institute for Energy Efficiency Awarded Kavli Professorship
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– John E. Bowers, a pioneering professor of electrical and computer engineering at UC Santa Barbara and director of the campus's Institute for Energy Efficiency,
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7/9/2009
New Study Ranks ‘Hotspots' of Human Impact on Coastal Areas
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– Coastal marine ecosystems are at risk worldwide as a result of human activities, according to scientists at UC Santa Barbara who have recently published
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7/7/2009
2 New Exhibits Open at UC Santa Barbara's University Art Museum
The architecture of classic Los Angeles eateries from the mid-20th century will be featured in one of two exhibitions opening this month at the University Art Museum at UC Santa Barbara.
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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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