To David Cleveland, a professor of environmental studies at UC Santa Barbara, it seemed as though Santa Barbara County would be a great example of what many are advocating as a solution to the problems of a conventional agrifood network –– a...
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Letters and Science, Environmental Studies
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Engineering, Letters and Science, Chemistry and Biochemistry, Mathematics
UC Santa Barbara's Center for Scientific Computing (CSC) has expanded computing resources for campus researchers with a new, state-of-the-art, high-performance, $1 million computing cluster.
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UCSB Scientists Develop New Nanoscale Imaging That May Lead to New Treatments for Multiple SclerosisEngineering, Chemical Engineering, Materials
Laboratory studies by chemical engineers at UC Santa Barbara may lead to new experimental methods for early detection and diagnosis –– and to possible treatments –– for pathological tissues that are precursors to multiple sclerosis and similar...
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Letters and Science, Marine Science
Caroline Roy has plans, and she won't let a little thing like life-threatening illness get in her way.
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Letters and Science, History
Twenty-seven rare books and manuscripts from the 13th through 17th centuries are on display in the special collections department of Davidson Library at UC Santa Barbara.
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Letters and Science, Psychological and Brain Sciences
Virtual reality may seem a phenomenon of 21st-century technology, but, in fact, it has existed for thousands of years –– since human beings first developed the ability to imagine.
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Letters and Science, Sociology
Victor Rios, an assistant professor of sociology at UC Santa Barbara, has received the 2011-12 Harold J. Plous Award.
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Letters and Science, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Bruce H. Lipshutz, professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at UC Santa Barbara, was awarded the 2011 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award at a ceremony in Washington, D.C. last night.
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Letters and Science, Chemistry and Biochemistry, Molecular Cellular and Developmental Biology
In what they are calling a new direction in the study of Alzheimer's disease, UC Santa Barbara scientists have made an important finding about what happens to brain cells that are destroyed in Alzheimer's disease and related dementias.
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Letters and Science, Physics
Zombie stars that explode like bombs as they die, only to revive by sucking matter out of other stars. According to an astrophysicist at UC Santa Barbara, this isn't the plot for the latest 3D blockbuster movie.