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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. Professor Naomi Tague, from the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, studies ecohydrology, exploring how water, ecosystems and climate interact.
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.
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.
Free film series hits the panic button at Carsey-Wolf Center
Sep 19, 2024 · Free film series hits the panic button at Carsey-Wolf Center. A fall lineup of films at UC Santa Barbara will dive deeply into realms of social anxiety, moral vice and political subversion with a range of free screenings that include a …
UC Santa Barbara ranks among top universities nationally and …
Oct 17, 2024 · UC Santa Barbara listed at No. 67 — out of 2,000 institutions from 115 countries and territories — in the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings 2025. THE’s 2024 subject-based rankings placed UCSB 37th worldwide in the …
Researchers reveal a new approach for treating degenerative …
Apr 30, 2024 · A paper out of UC Santa Barbara reveals a new connection between a particular ion transport protein and the cell’s garbage disposal, which grinds up misfolded proteins to stave off their toxic accumulation.
Two UCSB professors selected by the Gordon and Betty Moore …
Aug 21, 2024 · UCSB professors Jon Schuller and Andrew Jayich have been selected by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation to be part of this year's cohort of Experimental Physics Investigators.