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UCSB — The Current — ‘Joining one of the world’s premier honorary societies, three professors are named to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences’ and more news, events

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May 2, 2023

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Joining one of the world’s premier honorary societies, three professors are named to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences

Professors Tanya Atwater, Leda Cosmides and Nelson Lichtenstein have been elected to the prestigious, 243 year-old institution.

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Beyond Moore’s Law: Innovations in solid-state physics include ultra-thin ‘two-dimensional’ materials

New devices address challenges of conventional computing, holding promise for information processing and data storage.

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A new mentorship program in science and engineering selects its first graduate fellow

Allison Chau, a fourth-year doctoral candidate in the Materials Department, is the Center for Science and Engineering Partnerships’s inaugural mentor leadership fellow.

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World Music Series: UCSB Jazz Combos

May 3, 2023

Jon Nathan directs the UCSB Jazz Ensemble in standard and freshly developed music for small jazz ensembles, performed by advanced student musicians.

Honey, Baby, Mine: A Mother and Daughter Talk Life and Love

May 3, 2023

Actors/mother-daughter/co-authors Laura Dern and Diane Ladd celebrate the power of leaving nothing unsaid in conversation with Catherine Remak.

Big Screen: Encanto

May 6, 2023

A screening of the popular animated Disney film is followed by a discussion with Oscar-winning producer and alumnus Yvett Merino, and Dolores Inés Casillas of Chicana and Chicano studies.

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Forbes • Apr 27, 2023

Why Antibiotics Fail — And How We Can Do Better

We are running out of new antibiotics that can be used to treat ever-increasing resistance in bacterial infections. By using a different culture medium to test antibiotics, a researcher at UCSB has shown that some common antibiotics may be useful against a wider range of bacterial infections than previously recognized.