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Nov 4, 2024 · Mapping Alzheimer’s: UCSB’s Cristina Venegas follows a genetic puzzle tracing Alzheimer’s roots from Colombia. Coral underpin ecosystems as vibrant as they are. But these iconic animals face many challenges in the 21st century. October 28, 2024.
UCSB faculty and students among the American Geophysical …
Sep 23, 2024 · Two UC Santa Barbara faculty members have been elected as fellows of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), joining a distinguished group of 54 individuals in the 2024 Class of Fellows.
University progresses on development plans to expand student …
Feb 22, 2024 · With a goal to expand residential housing for students, UC Santa Barbara continues to advance on a development plan that will create 3,500 new student beds on the main campus, in accordance with the targets highlighted in the university’s 2010 Long Range Development Plan (LRDP).
Global groundwater depletion is accelerating, but is not inevitable ...
Jan 24, 2024 · The work revealed that groundwater is dropping in 71% of the aquifers. And this depletion is accelerating in many places: the rates of groundwater decline in the 1980s and ’90s sped up from 2000 to the present, highlighting how a bad problem became even worse.
Researchers create the first ever visualization of photoexcited …
Oct 10, 2024 · UC Santa Barbara researchers have achieved the first-ever “movie” of electric charges traveling across the interface of two different semiconductor materials.
Dead coral skeletons hinder reef regeneration by sheltering seaweed
Sep 26, 2024 · Researchers working at reefs in Moorea, French Polynesia found that the network of dead coral skeletons left in place by bleaching events caused critical processes to break down, ultimately preventing reefs from recovering.
In The Top Five - The Current
Sep 12, 2021 · In its 2022 listing of the “Top Public Schools,” U.S. News & World Report has ranked UC Santa Barbara No. 5. Among “Best National Universities,” which includes both public and private institutions, UC Santa Barbara placed No. 28.
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October 25, 2024. Campus teams with students, neighbors and local agencies to ensure a safe and serene Halloween. October 24, 2024. Early Academic Outreach Program is ‘Planting Dreams’ at UC Santa Barbara. October 23, 2024. UCSB’s cybersecurity chief on protecting digital spaces and the role of AI. October 23, 2024. UC Santa Barbara again ...
Deaf male mosquitoes don’t mate | The Current - news.ucsb.edu
Nov 4, 2024 · Researchers at UCSB created deaf mosquitoes by knocking out a single gene and found that the males had absolutely no interest in mating.