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Jan 2, 2025 · Inside our fall/winter issue you'll find a trio of inspiring conservation stories from California's eastern Sierra region, where UC Santa Barbara has a natural reserve — and a huge research presence. This mini-package, starring the Owens Valley pupfish, Yosemite’s mountain yellow-legged frogs ...
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Dec 18, 2024 · Andrei Isichenko holds the ultra-high-quality ring resonator (left), which can help turn the "coarse" light from a commercially available Fabry-Perot laser diode (right) into a low linewidth laser
In a paradigm shift for autism, practitioners move beyond …
21 hours ago · Historically, autism research and diagnostic tools have focused on white, cisgender boys under age five. As a result, countless individuals — particularly those from marginalized groups — have gone undiagnosed until adulthood or not at all, said Anna Krasno, clinical director of UC Santa Barbara’s Koegel Autism Center. Additionally, she noted that creating adaptive spaces, such as ...
Sara Miller McCune Arts Library opens for study, research and …
2 days ago · The newly opened Sara Miller McCune Arts Library at UC Santa Barbara culminates a multiyear effort to unite library collections and services in a central, state-of-the-art space. It also represents the vision of its namesake, a longstanding donor to the university. “Libraries are a place to learn, to explore, to read and they are often the doors to …
Campus events honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s struggle for …
2 days ago · Back-to-back events at UC Santa Barbara will kick off celebrations for Martin Luther King Jr. Day, including a free documentary screening and a silent march through campus. Starting at noon on Jan. 15 in 4603 South Hall, the Center for Black Studies Research will screen a recording of King reading ...
UC Santa Barbara to lead NSF-funded research institute for next …
May 4, 2023 · Vigna and UC Santa Barbara colleagues Chris Kruegel, João Hespanha and Ambuj Singh will be joined by more than 20 collaborators from UC Berkeley, Purdue University, Georgia Tech, The University of Chicago, University of Washington, University of Illinois Chicago, Rutgers, Norfolk State University, University of Illinois and University of Virginia. ...
UCSB to lead $22M NSF-funded center on exceptional microbes
Aug 29, 2024 · This week, the National Science Foundation announced the award of a six-year, $22M grant to UC Santa Barbara under its biofoundries program for the establishment of the BioFoundry for Extreme and Exceptional Fungi, Archaea and Bacteria (Ex-FAB), a collaboration led by UC Santa Barbara (UCSB), together with UC …
UC Santa Barbara ranks among top universities nationally and …
Oct 17, 2024 · For affordability, social mobility, research impact, academics and other metrics, the campus is again considered among the nation’s — and the world’s — top universities, according to myriad recent rankings.
UC Santa Barbara leads $1.3-million research project on coral ...
Oct 28, 2024 · Coral biologists have long assumed that energy moves from healthy parts of a coral colony to help heal damaged tissue. “We aim to reexamine this assumption by tracking damage signals at a molecular level,” said Ashley Seifert, a professor at University of Kentucky (UKY) and part of the research team.
UCSB’s cybersecurity chief on protecting digital spaces and the …
Oct 23, 2024 · Each and every member of the UCSB community has a role to play. At some point, security measures might fail and if they do, each individual in the organization has an obligation to detect and mitigate threats. People have less reason to worry if they are acting in ways that reduce the probability of falling victim to a breach.