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7/22/2008
Area Students Receive UCSB Regents' Scholarships
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) – Thirty-five high school graduates and college transfer students from California, Colorado, and New Mexico will enter UC Santa Barbara this fall as Regents
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7/15/2008
Study Shows Parasites Outweigh Predators
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) – In a study of free-living and parasitic species in three estuaries on the Pacific coast of California and Baja California, a team of researchers from the
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7/15/2008
Polarizing Filter Allows Astronomers to See Disks Surrounding Black Holes
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) – For the first time, a team of international researchers has found a way to view the accretion disks surrounding black holes and verify that their true electromagnetic
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7/14/2008
UCSB Communication Scholars Receive Award for Outstanding Article
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –Michael Stohl, chair and professor of communication at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Cynthia Stohl, also a professor of communication at
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7/10/2008
UCSB Researcher Leads Worldwide Study on Marine Fossil Diversity
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) - It took a decade of painstaking study, the cooperation of hundreds of researchers, and a database of more than 200,000 fossil records, but John Alroy thinks
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7/3/2008
UCSB Statement About the Death of Mary Low Cheadle, Spouse of UCSB's Second Chancellor, the Late Vernon I. Cheadle
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) – Mary Low Cheadle, first lady of UC Santa Barbara when her late husband, Vernon I. Cheadle, was chancellor, died on June 30 in Louisville, Kentucky, after
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6/30/2008
UCSB Physicist Wins Prestigious Plous Award
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) – Tommaso Treu, an assistant professor in the Department of Physics, has received UC Santa Barbara's 2008-09 Harold J. Plous Award. One of the university's
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6/30/2008
MicroRNAs Provide New Insight in Study of Autism, UCSB Scientist Reports
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) – MicroRNAs may play an important role in the development of autism spectrum disorder, according to a new paper by University of California, Santa Barbara
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6/30/2008
UC Santa Barbara Psychology Professor Michael Gazzaniga Awarded Prestigious German Research Prize for Lifetime Achievements in Science
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) – Michael Gazzaniga, professor of psychology at UC Santa Barbara and director of the SAGE Center for the Study of the Mind, has received the Humboldt Research
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6/30/2008
Town Hall Meeting at UCSB to Focus on Stem Cell Research
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) – Top scientists will present the current state of research on stem cells at a UC Santa Barbara-sponsored town hall meeting July 18 from 2-4 p.m. in the Hatlen
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6/30/2008
Activists and Scholars Meet at UCSB to Learn How to Save Endangered Languages
(Santa Barbara, CA, June 18, 2008) – Ekegusi – a language spoken by 1.8 million people in Western Kenya – and Mandan – a language spoken by Sacajawea, which has just one remaining
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6/30/2008
UCSB Professor's Paper on Safety of Large Hadron Collider to be Published in Physical Review D
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) – Particle colliders creating black holes that could devour the Earth. Sounds like a great Hollywood script.
But, according to UC Santa Barbara Physics Professor
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6/20/2008
UCSB Alumnus Establishes Endowed Chair in International Security Studies
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) – UC Santa Barbara has received a $600,000 gift from UCSB alumnus Anton Vonk and his wife, Diane Boss, to establish an endowed chair in political science.
The
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6/16/2008
UCSB Releases Findings of Third Annual 'Central Coast Survey' Based on Poll of Santa Barbara, Ventura Residents
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) – Researchers at the University of California, Santa Barbara, today released the findings of the 2008 Central Coast Survey, a large-scale public-opinion poll
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6/12/2008
UCSB Scholar Examines Illegal Detention and Deportation of U.S. Citizens
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) – Although no circumstances exist under which a United States citizen can be deported legally by any government agency, research conducted by a legal scholar
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6/11/2008
More than 4,700 Students Plan to Enroll as Freshmen at UC Santa Barbara for Fall 2008
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) – A total of 4,725 students representing a broad section of talents and interests have indicated they intend to enroll as freshmen at UC Santa Barbara for fall
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6/5/2008
UCSB Students, Faculty Member Receive Chancellor's Research Awards
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) – Three graduating seniors, two graduate students, and a faculty member have been recognized for their outstanding contributions to undergraduate research
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6/4/2008
Six UC Santa Barbara Senior Women Awarded Surprise Cash Academic Prizes
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) – Six graduating women will receive cash awards totaling $49,500 from the now-defunct Santa Barbara City Club, whose members established the program 28 years
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6/4/2008
Four UC Santa Barbara Graduates Win Top Academic Awards
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) – Four graduating seniors in the College of Letters and Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara have been selected to receive awards for outstanding
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6/3/2008
UCSB Will Graduate 4,800 Students in Eight Commencement Ceremonies
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) – Approximately 4,800 graduating students will take part in one of eight official commencement ceremonies scheduled at UC Santa Barbara over eight days starting
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6/3/2008
Top Awards for Three Outstanding Graduating Seniors at UCSB
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) – Three remarkable graduating seniors at the University of California, Santa Barbara, have been named winners of the university's top awards for their scholastic
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6/2/2008
UCSB Faculty Member and Spouse Establish Endowed Chair in Economics
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) – UC Santa Barbara professor emeritus Walter J. Mead and his wife, Thelma, have made a $1 million gift to the campus to establish an endowed chair in the Department
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6/2/2008
UC Santa Barbara Recreation Center Gains Green Building Certification
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) – The U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) program for existing buildings has recognized the Recreation Center
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5/29/2008
New Book by UCSB Faculty Member Explores Preoccupation With Collecting
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) – One man's trash is another man's treasure and nowhere is that more apparent than in William Davies King's collection of cereal boxes, tuna can labels, envelope
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5/29/2008
UCSB to Host American Economic Association Summer Program
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) – Beginning in June, the University of California, Santa Barbara, will host the Summer Training Program in Economics, sponsored by the American Economic Association
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5/28/2008
English Broadside Ballad Archive at UCSB Receives Second NEH Grant
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) – The Early Modern Center (EMC) at the University of California, Santa Barbara has received a second grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to
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