In the second project of the Pahl Initiative on the Study of Critical Social Issues, researchers will examine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the underserved.
UCSB — The Current — Essential Workers, Vital Scholarship
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UCSB — The Current — Supporting Solutions
The Schmidt Environmental Solutions Fellows program receives an additional two years of funding to support student research in environmental science.
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UCSB — The Current — Sneak Peek
The Library presents its shortlist of books under consideration for UCSB Reads 2021 and invites the campus community to vote for their preference.
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UCSB — The Current — A Framework for the Future
Researchers collaborate on a strategy for sustainable aquaculture, the world’s fastest growing food sector.
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UCSB — The Current — Using Artificial Intelligence to Forecast COVID-19
Nicole Lamartine is ready to do the heavy lifting as the campus’ new choir director.
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UCSB — The Current — ‘And She Could Be Next’
The CWC Docs virtual dialogue with filmmakers Grace Lee and Marjan Safinia centers on the women of color who are transforming politics.
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UCSB — The Current — Starve the Cancer
A newly detected cancer metabolic pathway could be a valuable target for therapy.
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UCSB — The Current — A COVID State of Mind
A doctoral candidate who has studied mental health amid the pandemic offers insights into coping strategies.
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UCSB — The Current — Managing the Complex
The Bren School announces a master’s degree program in environmental data science.
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UCSB — The Current — An Affordable Alternative
A new virtual reality tool slashes costs and opens optogenetics to scientists and students alike.
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UCSB — The Current — Arts & Lectures rolls out a free Summer Cinema series of family-friendly films at Santa Barbara’s only drive-in theater
Arts & Lectures rolls out a free Summer Cinema series of family-friendly films at Santa Barbara’s only drive-in theater.
UCSB — The Current — United Against COVID-19
The Graduate Division has awarded special summer funding to 55 students for pandemic-related research and creative projects.
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UCSB — The Current — Michael V. Drake is Named the Next UC President
UCSB — The Current — Pernicious Effects of Stigma
UCSB — The Current — Researchers with GRIT
ummer Sessions presents a new season of GRIT Talks, a series of free public lectures by notable faculty members.
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UCSB — The Current — Essential and At Risk
Scholars organize a webinar series, beginning today, that addresses the plight of front-line workers amid the pandemic.
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UCSB — The Current — Strangely Ordinary Strata
A researcher uncovers why most of the geological records left by ancient rivers preserve processes more commonplace than extraordinary.
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UCSB — Research Ramp-Up
With strict safety protocols and modifications, on-campus research operations gradually resume after COVID-19 cessation.
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UCSB — Science for Women
Neuroscientist Emily Jacobs has been awarded a $5M NIH grant to advance women’s health.
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UCSB — Mo’orea: Coral Reef Research in Paradise
With groundbreaking discoveries and innovative techniques in long-term ecological research, scientists at Gump Research Station, Mo’orea, are expanding our understanding of coral reef ecosystems.
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UCSB — The Current — Distinguished Graduates
The Dean’s award and other prizes recognize scholastic achievement in the sciences, social sciences, humanities and fine arts.
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UCSB — The Current — A Virtual Celebration
UC Santa Barbara will recognize 6,793 graduates for the 2019-2020 academic year.
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UCSB — The Current — The Fishy Future of Oil Platforms
Marine biologists forecast the effects of oil platform decommissioning on fish communities.
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UCSB — The Current — A Balancing Act
An Economic Forecast Project webinar dives into the ramifications of reopening Santa Barbara.
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UCSB — The Current — Keeping On
May 28, 2020 Top News Keeping On New initiatives have been offering resources and support for students and instructors adjusting to remote education. Read More ? Egregious Emissions Researchers find that over a 15-year period, a small percentage of industrial…
UCSB — The Current — Fish Feed Foresight
May 26, 2020 Top News Fish Feed Foresight A new paper describes how fishmeal and oil alternatives can support aquaculture growth. Read More ? Wired for Marriage For the first time, researchers have explored the neural and genetic connections to…
UCSB — The Current — (COVID-19) Sewage Surveillance
May 21, 2020 Top News Sewage Surveillance Researchers are developing methods to monitor the COVID-19 virus through the community’s wastewater. Read More ? A Boon to Research Four graduate students have been awarded Fulbright Fellowships to pursue projects abroad. Read…
UCSB — The Current — Indigenous Protection
May 19, 2020 Top News Indigenous Protection Anthropologists, physicians and tribal leaders develop a strategy for managing COVID-19 among an indigenous population. Read More ? A Lasting Legacy An anonymous gift establishes the Jules Zimmer Dean’s Chair in the Gevirtz…
UCSB — The Current — Not Business as Usual
The Economic Forecast Project’s new webinar highlights local business’ efforts to reopen as some COVID-19 restrictions are lifted.
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UCSB — The Current — Scholars’ national survey finds the COVID-19 crisis is hitting low-income Americans particularly hard
Scholars’ national survey finds the COVID-19 crisis is hitting low-income Americans particularly hard.
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UCSB — The Current — Identifying the Novel Coronavirus
When you take on something as virulent as the novel coronavirus, you have to act fast. In the three months since the first report of COVID-19 infection in the United States, the virus has spread to all 50 states and U.S. territories except for American Samoa, Micronesia, Palau and the Marshall Islands. It has caused quarantines, lockdowns, illness and death, and brought abrupt and significant changes to life as we know it.
UC Santa Barbara — The Current
April 22, 2020 Top News ‘Rising’ Elizabeth Rush, author of the UCSB Reads 2020 selection, will discuss her acclaimed book about sea level rise in an online community forum. Read More ? A Bleak Picture Lost jobs and lost revenue…
UCSB — The Current — Tracking the Spread
April 15, 2020 Top News Tracking the Spread An undergraduate computer science student has built a website to track the epidemiology of COVID-19. Read More ? The Power of Light Ultraviolet LEDs prove effective in eliminating coronavirus from surfaces and,…
UCSB — Your Wednesday News Briefing — Stay in Place, Maintain Your Space, Cover Your Face
April 8, 2020 Top News Tracking Tau Understanding how the protein tau moves between neurons yields insight into possible treatments for neurodegenerative diseases. Read More ? A Grim Outlook Scholar Benjamin J. Cohen says the Covid-19 crisis has the U.S.…
UCSB — The Current — Scientists provide essential COVID-19 testing supplies to Cottage Health System
April 1, 2020 Top News A Quick Reaction Scientists provide essential COVID-19 testing supplies to Cottage Health System. Read More ? Printing Protection Researchers begin 3D-printing protective gear to aid local medical facilities. Read More ? Promises Kept A tumultuous…
UCSB — The Current
March 25, 2020 Top News The Dirt on the Dig Students who participated in an excavation at La Purisima Mission turn findings into data. Read More ? A Life of Words Scholar Shirley Geok-lin Lim will be honored for her…
UCSB update — The Current — A Coordinated Response
March 19, 2020 Top News A Coordinated Response Researchers who have studied xenophobic reactions to disease outbreaks consider society’s response to COVID-19. Read More ? Soft Robot, Unplugged A new, human-scale soft robot can move untethered and navigate human environments.…
5th Bi-Annual Sal Castro Memorial Conference (Feb. 28-29) to explore the growing scholarship of the Chicano Movement
By Jim Logan • UCSB SANTA BARBARA — When teacher and activist Sal Castro encouraged students in Los Angeles to protest what they saw as decades of substandard education for Mexican-American youths, he helped kicked off what was then the…
Nov. 7 — Film screening of ‘Dolores’ to be held at UCSB
SANTA BARBARA — A film screening of ‘Dolores’ will be held at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 7 at UCSB Campbell Hall. A film about a rebel, activist, feminist and mother Dolores Huerta. Dolores Huerta is among the most important, yet least…
Nov. 17 — Sérgio Mendes & Bebel Gilberto to perform at UCSB
SANTA BARBARA — Sérgio Mendes & Bebel Gilberto to perform at 7 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 17 at UCSB Campbell Hall. The 60th Anniversary of Bossa Nova Bossa nova was born on July 10, 1958, at the old Odeon recording studios in…
He was going nowhere in a hurry. Now 35, he’s about to earn his bachelor’s degree in anthropology
By Jim Logan • UCSB Ron Jimenez was not on the college track. His high school GPA was 1.5. He dropped out a week before graduation. Higher education wasn’t an option — or even a consideration. Fast-forward nearly two decades.…
Marking a first for the UCSB, the inaugural cohort of Promise Scholars gets set to graduate
By Shelly Leachman • UCSB Rodolfo Hernandez is the eighth of nine siblings in his family. And on June 16, he’ll become the first among them to finish college. That he has reached this point — graduating from UC Santa…
El Plan de Santa Bárbara, catalyst for Chicano Studies departments across California, turns 50
By Shelly Leachman • UCSB In the late 1960s, so few other Latinos attended his college, Cástulo de la Rocha could find and personally call them all in a matter of days. And as a student activist in a growing…
UCSB to present ‘Migration, Environment and the Search for Sanctuary’ symposium on March 1
Symposium, presented by UCSB’s Asian American Studies and the Department of Chicano and Chicana Studies at Cal State Northridge, will kick off a global public history project on migration and environmental justice. By Jim Logan • UCSB If we consider…
Carlos Marquez, new manager of the Charles T. Munger Physics Residence, reflects on a long and fruitful career on campus
By Shelly Leachman • UCSB Carlos Marquez wasn’t too long returned from a four-year stint with the U.S. Army and looking for steady work when his brother referred him to his own employer, UC Santa Barbara. It’s a solid job,…
‘Hailing Cesar’ documentary on Cesar Chavez by grandson Eduardo Chavez to be presented Jan. 30 at UCSB Multicultural Center Theatre
SANTA BARBARA — “Hailing Cesar,” a documentary on Cesar Chavez by grandson Eduardo Chavez, will be presented at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 30 at the UCSB Multicultural Center Theatre. The grandson of civil rights activist Cesar Chavez, Eduardo Chavez, embarks…
Coming to America — Understanding the migrant caravan requires an awareness of Central America’s recent history, social scientists say
By Andrea Estrada • UCSB . The migrant caravan that traveled from Central America to the United States last month generated headlines — and angry rhetoric — long before it arrived. The situation reached fever pitch the Sunday after Thanksgiving when…
Professor Mario García’s biography of Father Luis Olivares illuminates the birth of the sanctuary movement in Los Angeles
By Jim Logan • UCSB Father Luis Olivares had it made. As treasurer of the Claretians, a congregation of Catholic missionaries, he was wined and dined by the titans of Wall Street. They flew him to New York first class, put…
UCSB update for Nov. 29 — Latin Fusion (to perform Nov. 30)
November 29, 2018 Top News Elevating Voices The Interdisciplinary Humanities Center pairs student translators with non-native English-speaking parents for parent-teacher conferences at local elementary schools. Read More The Ambitious Dragon A new book examines China’s drive to become the world…
The American Mathematical Society awards fellowships to UCSB’s Hector Ceniceros and Zhenghan Wang
By Harrison Tasoff • UCSB Recognized for their outstanding contributions to the advancement, use and communication of mathematics, UC Santa Barbara Professors Hector Ceniceros and Zhenghan Wang have been named 2019 fellows of the American Mathematical Society (AMS). The association of mathematicians promotes mathematical research and…