UC Santa Barbara has received a $500,000 gift from UCSB Physics Professor Guenter Ahlers and his wife, June, to establish an endowed chair in experimental physics, his area of academic expertise.
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Gevirtz Graduate School of EducationMelvyn Semmel of UC Santa Barbara's Gevirtz Graduate School of Education has been awarded the prestigious Edward A. Dickson Emeriti Professorship for 2008-09.
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Letters and Science, Geography
A doctoral student in the geography department at the University of California, Santa Barbara whose research in modeling and simulation resolution has important applications for homeland security, has recently been awarded three prestigious...
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Letters and Science, Philosophy
Renowned ethicists from the United States and Britain will meet at the University of California, Santa Barbara next month for The Fourth Steven Humphrey Excellence in Philosophy Conference.
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Letters and Science, Mathematics
Paolo Cascini, assistant professor of mathematics at UC Santa Barbara, has won a prestigious Sloan Research Fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
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Letters and Science, East Asian Languages and Cultural StudiesIn 1961, newly graduated from Harvard University with a bachelor's degree in Far Eastern languages, John Nathan hopped a Japan Airlines flight to Tokyo where he planned to study Japanese literature.
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Letters and Science, Psychological and Brain Sciences
Michael Gazzaniga, professor of psychology at UC Santa Barbara and director of UCSB's Sage Center for the Study of Mind, is the recipient of a 2008 Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award from the American Psychological Association (APA).
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Letters and Science, Mathematics
Carlos Garcia-Cervera, assistant professor of mathematics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, has been awarded a National Science Foundation CAREER award.
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Letters and Science, Black Studies
Musical improvisation as a model for political, cultural, and ethical dialogue and action is the focus of an international research project involving scholars at 18 universities across the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia...
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Letters and Science, Jewish Studies, Religious Studies
UC Santa Barbara has received a $1 million gift from Marsha and Jay Glazer to establish an endowed chair in Jewish Studies and help launch a major new educational initiative in the interdisciplinary field.
