Victor Rios, assistant professor of sociology at UC Santa Barbara, has received the New Scholar Award from the American Society of Criminology.
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Letters and Science, Molecular Cellular and Developmental BiologyNobel Prize-winner Carol Greider, a UC Santa Barbara alumna who solved a fundamental problem in biology that has stimulated the development of new therapeutic strategies for cancer and age-related disease, will lecture on Friday, Jan.
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Letters and Science, Molecular Cellular and Developmental BiologyIn nature, it's a dog-eat-dog world, even in the realm of bacteria. Competing bacteria use "toxic darts" to disable each other, according to a new study by UC Santa Barbara biologists. Their research is published in the journal Nature.
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Letters and Science, PhysicsPlanck –– an international satellite that peers back into the beginning of the universe –– has produced what scientists are calling new and provocative data.
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Letters and Science, PhysicsScientists can use cylinders as small as teapots to study the mechanisms involved in powerful hurricanes and other swirling natural phenomena.
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Letters and Science, Black StudiesUC Santa Barbara will celebrate Black History Month with a variety of academic and cultural events, including film screenings, lectures, discussions, and three art exhibitions –– two on campus and the other at the Karpeles Manuscript Library in...
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Letters and Science, Psychological and Brain SciencesA ballet dancer grasps her partner's hand to connect for a pas de deux. Later that night, in the dark, she reaches for her calf to massage a sore spot.
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Letters and Science, Molecular Cellular and Developmental BiologyJames A. "Jamie" Thomson, co-director of regenerative biology for UC Santa Barbara's Center for Stem Cell Biology and Engineering, has been named a co-winner of the 2011 King Faisal International Prize for Medicine.
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Letters and Science, GeographyUC Santa Barbara Professor Michael Goodchild, a global pioneer in geographic information science, is the first scholar appointed to the Jack and Laura Dangermond Professorship in geography.
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Letters and Science, AnthropologyDignitaries from Belize will travel to Santa Barbara later this month to join UC Santa Barbara in signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to support a collaborative research program at the ancient Maya city of El Pilar and to launch a...
