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2024 Goldwater scholars
Clockwise, from left: Matthew Unger, Riya Nilkrant, Xuanwei Liang, Isaac Heir, Anika Jena

Five UC Santa Barbara undergraduates named Goldwater Scholars

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Professor Kyle Meng will serve as a senior economist in Washington
open bottle pouring out a small pool of detergent
With this method, your empty detergent bottle can be turned into more detergent

Our plastic waste can be used as raw material for detergents, thanks to an improved catalytic method
close up of brown dog's nose

Dogs can detect COVID-19 infections faster and more accurately than conventional technology, demonstrating readiness for mainstream medical applications
The cover of “Mighty Bad Land” with Mount Luyendyk in the background.
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Bruce Luyendyk
Peak 1070 — near one of the team’s field camps — was renamed Mount Luyendyk in honor of the author’s contribution to our knowledge of Antarctica.

‘Mighty Bad Land’: A tale of danger and discovery in West Antarctica
a group of researchers in Bolivia
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Michael Gurven
The Tsimane Health and Life History Project mobile field team, consisting of UCSB anthropologist Michael Gurven, center bottom, and including UCSB undergraduate researcher Tianyu Cao (far right), is composed of several Tsimane anthropologists, a Tsimane health promoter, as well as a Bolivian physician and biochemist.

New research shows genetic mutation known for Alzheimer’s disease is associated with higher fertility in women
A scalloped hammerhead prowls a reef in the Galapagos Marine Reserve, Ecuador.
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Lopazanski et al.
The Galapagos Marine Reserve is one of many marine protected areas around the globe that safeguards biodiversity, cultural heritage and marine resources.

Theory meets practice: Marine protected areas overwhelmingly manage with climate change in mind
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NCEAS's Alexandra Phillips has been awarded the first Legislative Branch Fellowship in Climate Science by the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Auger-Meitner Effect on electron energy loss
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Fangzhou Zhao
The trap-assisted Auger-Meitner effect allows for energy to be transferred to another electron.

Trap-Assisted Auger-Meitner recombination exposed as a major loss mechanism in LEDs
researchers working with Senegalese partners
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UCSB geographer David López-Carr, center left, and Stanford University health and environmental scientist Andrea Lund, center right, working with Senegalese partners

Nuisance vegetation removal in Senegalese waterways reduces the overall prevalence of parasitic infections and increases local food production
abstract purple and pink peptide molecule

A new synergistic method can create non-canonical amino acids by merging synthetic photochemistry with biocatalysis
dune plant and dune fence
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Karina Johnston
Beach bur, a native plant that helped to form dunes on a section of Santa Monica Beach in Los Angeles

Dune restoration could increase the resilience of Southern California's urban beaches to sea level rise
concept of attaching radical molecule to aromatic compound
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A ‘toolbox of biocatalysts’ improves control over free radicals
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