UC Santa Barbara has received a $3.5-million contribution from SAGE Publications to launch a dynamic new interdisciplinary research center for the study of the mind.
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Letters and Science, Geography
New keys to understanding the evolution of life on Earth may be found in the microbes and minerals vented from below the ocean floor, say scientists at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
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Letters and Science, History
Sharon Ann Farmer, professor of history at UC Santa Barbara, is among the 186 artists, scholars, and scientists from the United States and Canada to receive prestigious Guggenheim fellowships for 2005.
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Letters and Science, Geography
Christopher Still, assistant professor of geography at UC Santa Barbara, has been honored with a NASA New Investigator Program in Earth Sciences Award. His proposal was one of 31 chosen nationally.
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Letters and Science, Communication
David Seibold, a professor of communication at UC Santa Barbara since 1990, has been selected to be a Distinguished Scholar by the National Communication Association.
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Letters and Science, English
What is cool?
The answer, says Alan Liu, a professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara, depends entirely upon whom one asks.
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Letters and Science, Physics
David D. Awschalom, a professor of physics and of electrical and computer engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara, has been awarded the 2005 Oliver E.
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Letters and Science, Anthropology
Michael Gurven of the Department of Anthropology has won UCSB's 2004 Harold J. Plous Award, one of the university's two most prestigious faculty honors.
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Gevirtz Graduate School of Education
The Verizon Foundation has contributed $127,000 to a coalition based at UC Santa Barbara to help schools improve family literacy in Goleta, Isla Vista, and Santa Barbara.
The foundation presented the award at a recent campus ceremony.
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Letters and Science, Physics
The 2004 Nobel Prize in physics has been awarded to David Gross, professor of physics and director of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and two others.
