UCSB — The Current — ‘Frog populations once decimated by disease mount a major comeback’ and more news, events
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Over 17 years, researchers and conservationists team to save, then reintroduce, mountain yellow-legged frogs to lakes in Yosemite where they’d been extirpated by a deadly fungus.
As the campus’s new Racial Justice Fellows, graduate students India Sanders, Diego Lazcano Avila and Marlene Lopez Torres will receive funding and mentorship for both research and teaching as they pursue their doctorate degrees.
Researchers Raphaële Clément and Ram Seshadri are part of a nationwide endeavor, funded by a five-year, $125 million grant, to accelerate next-generation battery technologies.
Distinguished professors Alison Butler and David Valentine speak, respectively, on marine bioinorganic chemistry and making discoveries from disasters.
Through the lens of a generational memoir, the ER physician and health equity advocate reflects on inequities in the U.S. healthcare system and offers prescriptions for how to change them.