UCSB — The Current — ‘Historic iceberg surges offer insights on modern climate change’ and more news, events
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Bringing warm surface water north and cold deep water south, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, or AMOC, is a major component of the global climate system, influencing marine ecosystems, weather patterns and temperatures. It’s also regarded as a potential tipping element of the Earth’s climate.
With a New Investigator Award from the Hevolution Foundation and American Federation for Aging Research, researcher Max Wilson will investigate how a particular stress-signaling pathway — the integrated stress response (ISR) — contributes to aging, and how its mechanisms degrade or change with age.
Chemistry professor Yang Yang is using photobiocatalysis — the use of light to enable and accelerate enzymatic reactions — to create new, not naturally occuring amino acids.
The Carsey-Wolf Center presents a 2K DCP restoration of the film and a post-screening discussion featuring Jan-Christopher Horak, former director of the UCLA Film & Television Archive, and Andréas-Benjamin Seyfert of Germanic & Slavic studies.
The UCSB Library showcases “Art & Reproductive Biology,” an exhibition of student work created as part of a quarter-long interdisciplinary class in anthropology and art.
