UCSB — The Current — ‘New microCT machine unites biologists and materials scientists’ and more news, events
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“A microCT is important because it allows us to look at internal anatomy and the inside of bee nests as bees are growing,” said Katja Seltmann, the Katherine Esau Director of the Cheadle Center.
The professor and his team received the prestigious Misha Mahowald Prize in Neuromorphic Engineering for their work on stochastic neuromorphic computing.
The short film directed by Travers Tobis and produced through UCSB’s Crew Production course, taught by Chris Jenkins and Wendy Jackson, is one of only three national finalists in the College Television Awards.
Filmmakers Alexey Chupov and Natasha Merkulova will join Sasha Razor of Film and Media Studies for a post-screening discussion of the fast-paced fable.
In the past year alone, there have been exhibitions from the artist Lisa Jevbratt, a professor at the University of California Santa Barbara and her collaborator Helén Svensson, who dye wool with fennel, wisteria and other overabundant species on Santa Cruz Island, and the emerging New York artist Kay Kasparhauser, who derives pink pigment from the wings of spotted lanternflies, a species government officials say to squash on sight.
