UCSB — The Current — ‘Why do kids outperform their parents in this rural California town? A sociologist looks for answers’ and more news, events
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Trevor Auldridge-Reveles spent 13 months in Dixon to investigate the remarkable levels of upward social mobility among teenagers from the small agricultural town between San Francisco and Sacramento.
New molecular-level insights on the way pathological tau spreads could lead toward “a therapeutic intervention potentially capable of disaggregating tau or preventing its aggregation.”
For her 3-minute research talk, “Healthy Forests, Healthy Humans,” Kacie Ring, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology, earned the title 2024 UCSB Grad Slam Champion.
Communal, comprehensive and a little competitive — Give Day is a 36-hour sprint to raise support for campus. Join the celebration by sharing memories and photos on social media or supporting a campus area close to your heart.
Held in conjunction with UCSB Reads, which this year selected the book “Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us,” CCS students in book arts, sculpture and painting programs hold open studios.
The timing of the rain, a plant’s growth strategy and regional differences affect which plants flourish in a given year, said Joan Dudney, an associate professor of global change ecology at UC Santa Barbara.
