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Mayan Apocalypse - UCSB Professor Gerardo Aldana will highlight the errors of fact that underlie proposals of a Mayan prophecy for the apocalypse in 2012.
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Chronic Uncertainty on Undocumented Immigrants - A UCSB Communication course studies the effects of chronic uncertainty
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New Study Evaluates Impact of Land-Use Activity - A new paper reveals that human land-use activity has begun to change the regional water and energy cycles.
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Hair Down There - UCSB undergrad's research on female pubic hair removal wins a prestigious award.
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Sociologist Receives Grant to Study Gang Youth - Victor Rios, associate professor of sociology at UCSB, has received a $300,000 grant to study how society interacts with gang-associated youth.
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UCSB Frosh Move In - UCSB reminds the community of the Freshman Move-In weekend on campus. They are expecting 5,577
students to move into the residence halls this weekend.
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UCSB Receives 68,331 Applications for Fall 2012 - UCSB has received 68,331 applications for undergraduate admission for fall 2012. The total is 5,028 more than last year, an increase of 7.9 percent.
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Composite Number Factoring - Researchers at UCSB have designed and fabricated a quantum processor capable of
factoring a composite number into its constituent prime factors.
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Scholars Study Religious Pluralism - Seventeen scholars from around the world have gathered at UC Santa Barbara this
summer to study the religious diversity of the United States.
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Student Groups Come Together to Ban Plastic Bags - Student groups at UCSB have banded together to make a profound impact on the campus community and the City of Santa Barbara's use of plastic bags.
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UCSB #35 in the World - UC Santa Barbara has been ranked number 35 on a list of the world's top 200 universities.
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- Researchers from UCSB say there is enough evidence to associate climate conditions in East Africa with projected rainfall deficits that could lead to food shortages.
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- UCSB Researchers discovered why we easily spill coffee.
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UCSB Teams to Study Largest Undersea Canyons - A research collaboration involving UCSB, Greenpeace, and the NOAA has documented abundant corals in the world's largest underwater canyons of the Bering Sea.
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UCSB Computer Science Grant - With a grant of nearly $600,000, two professors at UCSB will develop computer
science curricula geared toward children in grades two through six.
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UCSB Grant - UCSB researchers receive $1.2M NIH grant to design and implement preschool health and biology
curriculum.
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- UCSB was again ranked in the Top 10 party schools by the Princeton Review.
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Scholar Named to Treasury Department - A UCSB statistics and applied probability scholar has been named to the treasury
department advisory committee on financial research.
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UCSB TV to Debut on Cox Cable Channel 72 - Local television viewers will have a new means of experiencing research, breakthroughs, and media and fine arts that distinguish UCs, specifically UCSB.
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UCSB Top 25 Healthiest College - UC Santa Barbara has been named one of the 25 healthiest colleges in the U.S.
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Forest Insects & Diseases Arrive Via Plants - According to a study by UCSB, trading live plants has proved to be a boom for the economy but has also been shown to have devastating effects on the environment.
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Epigenetic Gene Expression - UCSB researchers' discovery of intrasite hopping of bacterial enzyme on DNA gives
insight into epigenetic gene expression.
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UCSB Science Education - UCSB brings a new type of science education to local schools which helps children learn the
scientific process.
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Effects Catch Shares Program - UCSB resource economists will be examining the ongoing effects of a fisheries
management system implemented in January 2011.
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UCSB Anthropologist Studies Reciprocity - A UCSB Anthropologist studies the reciprocity among chimpanzees and bonobos that may reveal clues to
the evolution of favor exchanges in humans.
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UCSB Cheadle Center Receives Grant for Restoration - The continued restoration of UC Santa Barbara's West Campus Bluffs has received financial support, in the form of a grant from the Goleta Valley Land Trust.
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Less is More - More modest male displays attract females when it comes to brown-headed cowbirds,
contrary to sexual selection theory, according to UCSB researchers.
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UCSB Study Supports Theory of Extraterrestrial - A study jointly led by a UCSB researcher supports the Theory of Extraterrestrial Impact.
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UCSB Study Measures Spatial Planning - A UCSB study is the first to measure the value of marine spatial planning.
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Bacteria Communicate by Touch - What if bacteria could talk to each other? What if they had a sense of touch? A
new study by researchers at UC Santa Barbara suggests both.
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Plants & Climate Change - According to a study that UCSB scientists are working on, plants may be reacting to climate change more than we think.
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UCSB Offers Admission to 23,875 for Fall 2012 - UC Santa Barbara has offered a place in its fall 2012 entering class to a total of 23,875 high school seniors.
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Original Santa Barbara Unearthed - UCSB professor Lynn Gamble and her students were recently presented with a rare
opportunity to excavate a Chumash Indian site.
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UCSB Semiconductor Research Grant - UCSB's Solid State Lighting and Energy Center has received a $500,000 endowment
to further its research on gallium nitride.
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Lars Bildsten Named Director - After an international search for a new director for the Kavli Institute for
Theoretical Physics at UCSB, Lars Bildsten was selected.
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UCSB Peace Corps Volunteers - UCSB has moved up in the 2012 rankings of colleges and universities that send the
largest number of volunteers to serve in the Peace Corps.
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Teach for America Ranks UCSB 20th - Teach for America ranked UCSB at number 20 in the annual ranking of universities
contributing the greatest number of graduates to its teaching corps.
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Politics of Headscarves - A new book by a UCSB Global and International Studies Scholar examines the
politics of headscarves.
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NCEAS Study - A recent study suggests that climate change predicted for the United States will
boost demand for imported drought- and heat-tolerant landscaping.
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- UCSB adds a sustainable and organic restaurant to the University Center, focusing on fresh, local, natural
and organic ingredients.
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U.S. News Ranks UCSB Graduate Programs Among Best - In its annual ranking of leading graduate programs, U.S. News and World Report magazine has rated two of UCSB's programs among the top 10 in the nation.
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New Particle Announced - The observation of a new particle was presented at a seminar on July 4 by UC Santa
Barbara physics professor Joe Incandela.
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Michael Douglas Donates $500,000 - Academy Award-winning actor and producer and UCSB alumnus Michael Douglas has
contributed $500,000.
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Sustainable Ocean Solutions - UC Santa Barbara-based sustainable ocean solutions is aiming to aid vulnerable
fisheries.
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Study Evaulates Effects of Atmospheric CO2 - A UCSB marine scientist and a team of 18 other researchers have reported results of the broadest worldwide study of ocean acidification to date.
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UCSB Campus Projects Recognized - Three landscaping and infrastructure projects on the UCSB campus have received
recognition and awards from Goleta Valley Beautiful.
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UCSB Professor Receives $750,000 - Songi Han, associate professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at
UC Santa Barbara, has received a $750,000 award.
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Gulf of Mexico Topography in Deep Water Disaster - UCSB scientists can now explain how the Gulf of Mexico topography played a key role in oil and gas consumption after the deep water horizon disaster.
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Effects of Manufactured Nanoparticles - A group of UCSB scientists examined the effects of common manufactured
nanoparticles on soybean crops.
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U.N. Environmental Assessment - UC Santa Barbara researchers will play a key role in the United Nations
Environmental Assessment.
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- UCSB draws in many international students every year. Ever wonder where they come from? Here's a map put together by the Geography department.
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Fish Sustainability - UCSB scientists have captured clues to the sustainability of fish populations.
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STEM Grant Supports Partnership - With a $6 million award, UC Santa Barbara and Oxnard College are partnering to
create additional education opportunities.
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Look Below The Eyes - They say that the eyes are the windows to the soul. However, to get a real idea of what a person is up to,
according to UCSB researchers the best place to check is right below the eyes.
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Philanthropist Named Honorary Alumna - A prominent philanthropist has been named Honorary Alumna of UC Santa Barbara.
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New Fuel Cell Technology - UCSB is now host to a unique new energy system that is providing electricity as part of the university's
commitment to energy efficiency and sustainability.
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New Study Reveals Leading Cause of Blindness - Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is one of the leading causes of blindness worldwide, especially in developed countries.
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UCSB Reads - UCSB Reads continues through winter quarter with faculty members across a variety
of disciplines participating in a series of Community Conversations.
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UCSB Bookstore Fight Plastic Pollution - On April 2nd, the UCSB Bookstore and a coalition of students put aside plastic
bags and distributed 3,500 re-usable bags to students
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MESSENGER Spacecraft Reveals New Insights on Plane - Thanks to the MESSENGER spacecraft, and a mission that took more than 10 years, scientists now have a good picture of the solar system's innermost planet.
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Kavali Institute Rewarded $2.5 Million - The Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP) at UCSB has been awarded $2.5 million to support the work of leading scientists.
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Motor Chunking Tasks - A study by UC Santa Barbara psychologists reveals how the brain performs ‘motor
chunking' tasks.
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Laboratory Safety Awareness - UCSB is working with The Dow Chemical Company on a pilot program to increase
laboratory safety awareness.
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Lagoon Island Prescribed Burn - UCSB's Cheadle Center for Biodiversity will conduct a prescribed burn on UCSB's
lagoon island on one day during the week of July 21-27.
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UCSB Is Praised For Diversity - UC Santa Barbara is among the ‘Five-Star' campuses rated for LGBT-Friendliness.
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- Mechanical engineering professor Rouslan Krechetnikov received a 2012 Ig Nobel
Prize for coffee sloshing fluid dynamics research.
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- While age-related increases in blood pressure are commonplace in the U.S., that does not seem to be the case among hunter-gatherers and forager-horticulturists.
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- By using powerful X-rays that see down to the molecular level, researchers are now able to determine why some materials perform better than others.
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Stem Cell Research Soars - Biomedical research at UC Santa Barbara has catapulted to a position of leadership
in the arena of stem cell biology.
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UCSB Ranks No. 17 Among Nation's Top 100 Colleges - Kiplinger's Personal Finance has named UC Santa Barbara to its 2012 list of 100 best values in public colleges and universities.
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Thomas More Storke Award Winners - Three remarkable graduating seniors at UC Santa Barbara have been named winners of
the university's top awards for their scholastic achievement.
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UCSB Bicycle Repair Stations - Thanks to funding provided by the UCSB Department of Housing and Residential
Services, four bicycle repair stations were recently installed on campus.
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Hubble Finds Farthest Protocluster of Galaxies - NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered a cluster of galaxies in the initial stages of construction. An astrophysicist at UCSB contributed to the discovery.
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UCSB Faculty's Top Honor - The faculty of UCSB has bestowed its highest honor on Leda Cosmides and John
Tooby, professors of psychology and anthropology, respectively.
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Groundbreaking Compost Pilot Project - A student run Compost Pilot Project (CPP) will be implemented on January 23rd and is intended to capture post-consumer food scrap waste generated on campus.
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Brain Functions During Visual Searches - A recent UC Santa Barbara study reveals how the brain functions during visual
searches.
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UCSB Receives $224,000 in Grants - The Experimental Visualization Lab at UCSB has received from the Robert W.
Deutsch Foundation and the NSF grants totaling $224,000
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UCSB Researchers Discover Dangerous Salmonella - UC Santa Barbara researchers have discovered Salmonella bacteria that are up to 100 times more capable of causing disease.
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Prescribed Burn - UC Santa Barbara will conduct its prescribed burn on Lagoon Island tomorrow at 11 am.
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Discovery About Temperature in Convection - An international team of physicists is working to ascertain more about the
fundamental physical laws that are at work in a process known as convection.
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Historian to Receive Sol Stetin Award - Historian Nelson Lichtenstein is the recipient of the 2012 Sol Stetin Award for Labor
History.
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UCSB Water Study - A new UC Santa Barbara-Based project will study contaminants in an urban water environment.
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- An international team of researchers has reported a new understanding of a little-known process that happens in virtually every cell of our bodies.
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- UCSB Researcher finds that age-related increases in blood pressure are common in the United States, but
does not seem to be the case among hunter-gatherers.
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- A recent study from UCSB has found that loss of biodiversity impacts the environment as significantly as climate change and pollution.
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Seafood, Wild or Farmed? - Most people think of seafood as either wild or farmed, but in fact both categories
may apply to the fish you pick up from your grocery store.
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Processes Leading to Leukemia - Researchers at UC Santa Barbara have discovered a molecular pathway that may
explain how a particularly deadly form of cancer develops.
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Packard Fellowship Award - A physicist at UCSB is quickly racking up national
and international awards honoring his research in quantum physics.
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UCSB Mixes Lasers to Get Light at Many Frequencies - A team of physicists at UC Santa Barbara has seen the light, and it comes in many different colors.
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Verizon Foundation Grant - Thanks to a $30,000 grant from the Verizon Foundation a research project at UCSB will
expand to include two partner schools.
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National Academy of Engineering Election - Steven P. DenBaars of UCSB is among the 66 new members elected today by the
National Academy of Engineering.
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Astronomers Watch Replays of Powerful Eruption - Astrophysicists affiliated with UCSB are contributing to a study that examines replays of powerful stellar eruptions.
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UCSB Multiblock Polymers Research - Emerging theoretical framework may guide researchers through the complex world of
multiblock polymers.
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Leal and Reardon Awards - Four graduating seniors in the College of Letters and Science at UCSB have been
selected to receive awards for outstanding academic achievement.
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First Genetically Evolved Semiconductor - In the not-too-distant future scientists may be able to use DNA to grow their own
specialized materials thanks to the concept of directed evolution.
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Are Jellyfish Increasing in the World's Oceans? - A new global study conducted at UCSB's National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis questions claims that jellyfish are increasing worldwide.
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UCSB Awarded $553,000 - UCSB's Department of Earth Science has received a $553,000 award from Seismic
Micro-Technology Inc. in the form of educational software.
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- Taking advantage of the combination of social networking and venture capitalism, several UCSB scientists are participating in the #SciFund Challenge.
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UCSB Professor's Film to Screen at Festival - Nothing Like Chocolate, a film by a UCSB sociology professor, will be screen at the SBIFF.
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UCSB Grad Student Given Prestigious Award - A UCSB grad student has been awarded a prestigious fellowship with the UNESCO-L'Oréal Fellowships for Young Women in Life Sciences.
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Low Testosterone in Amazonian Tribe - Anthropologists at UC Santa Barbara and the University of Washington have
recently finished their research on testosterone levels.
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Nanoscale MRI Research - MRI on the nanoscale and the ever-elusive quantum computer are among the
advancements edging closer toward the realm of possibility.
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Chemical Measurements Confirm Estimate of Gulf Oil - A team of scientists including UCSB's David Valentine estimated how fast gases and oil were leaking during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
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UCSB Physicists Receives Grant for Research - David Weld, assistant professor of physics at UCSB, has received a grant for $360,000 to continue his work with ultracold atoms.
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Detecting 'Hypervirulent' Salmonella Strains - A recent discovery of hypervirulent Salmonella bacteria has given UCSB researchers
a means to potentially prevent food poisoning outbreaks.
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Chemists Mimic Nature - Chemists at UCSB and University of Rome Tor Vergata have adapted some strategies of evolution to improve the performance of DNA detectors.
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UCSB Researchers Receive Award for Soil Study - UCSB researchers received a $600,000 NSF award for a study of soil and carbon sequestration.
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UCSB Graduate Students Receive Scholarships - Four UCSB graduate students have been awarded U.S. Department of State 2012
Critical Language Scholarships for Intensive Summer Institutes.
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Seeing Nature - UCSB students and experts have created "Seeing Nature" which is a collection of
media that illustrate the human ways of viewing the world.
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UCSB Researchers Examine Endangered Apes - UCSB researchers discovered that infectious disease has joined poaching and habitat loss as a major threat to the survival of African great apes.
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