Andrew Stull, a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Psychology at UC Santa Barbara, is one of 20 scholars nationwide to be awarded a prestigious Spencer Fellowship by the National Academy of Education.
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Letters and Science, Psychological and Brain Sciences
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Letters and Science, Religious Studies
Eighteen scholars from around the world will gather at UC Santa Barbara this summer to study the religious diversity of the United States and to learn firsthand how people with widely differing beliefs can coexist.
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Letters and Science, Anthropology, Psychological and Brain Sciences
For our ancestors, misjudging the physical strength of a would-be opponent might have resulted in painful –– and potentially deadly –– defeat.
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Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, Environmental Science and Management, Environmental Studies
Among the many tools being used to clean up the country's worst environmental disaster –– the Deepwater Horizon platform explosion and oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico –– is a new device called the Groovy Drum Skimmer.
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Bren School of Environmental Science & Management
UC Santa Barbara's National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) supports a graduate student working group in fisheries that produced an article in a recent issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Letters and Science, English
Debates about the nature of the Enlightenment date to the 18th century, when philosopher Imanual Kant himself addressed the question, "What is Enlightenment?" A new book edited by William Warner and Clifford Siskin offers a paradigm-shifting...
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Letters and Science, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Song-I Han, assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry at UC Santa Barbara, has received a Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award. She is one of 14 recipients from universities across the United States.
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Letters and Science, Communication
Karen Kroman Myers, an assistant professor of communication at UC Santa Barbara, has received the 2010-11 Harold J. Plous Award.
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Letters and Science, Physics
Paul Hansma's face lights up when he talks about what his latest research might mean for people who suffer after breaking their hips or other bones that become more and more brittle as they age.
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Letters and Science, Psychological and Brain Sciences
With the aging of nearly 80 million baby boomers, Alzheimer's disease is an impending epidemic that requires a new approach to prevention as well as management of the disease, according to a UC Santa Barbara professor who has co-authored a new...