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UCSB Men’s Basketball: Gauchos Fall in Overtime Thriller Against LMU
The UC Santa Barbara Men's Basketball team dropped its first game of the season during a thrilling overtime game against LMU on Monday night. Miro Little scored a team high 19 points while Colin Smith added 18. "We got what we deserved," said…
UCSB Women’s Soccer Loses to Cal Poly in Big West Championship Final
The UC Santa Barbara Women's Soccer team fell in a heartbreaker on Sunday afternoon in The Big West Championship final to Central Coast rival Cal Poly. A Cal Poly goal in the 89th minute sealed the deal for the Mustangs, thus…
Vast Collection of Historic American Music Released Via UCSB Library Partnership With Dust-to-Digital Foundation
By Keith Hamm, UCSB Thousands of songs representing some of the rarest and most uniquely American music borne from the Jazz Age and the Great Depression would have likely been lost to landfills and faded from memory. Fans and historians…
UCSB joins NSF’s National Quantum Virtual Laboratory
By Sonia Fernandez, UCSB UC Santa Barbara professor Daniel Blumenthal’s lab is part of one of four design teams from around the country selected by the National Science Foundation for its recently launched National Quantum Virtual Laboratory (NVQL). Aligning with colleagues at…
Advanced Mortality Modeling Earns UCSB Team International Actuarial Prize
By Seren Snow, UCSB For Nhan T. Huynh, the news came in an unexpected email from her former adviser, Michael Ludkovski, a professor in UC Santa Barbara’s Department of Statistics and Applied Probability. The note contained word of a career-defining achievement:…
Hotshots, History and The Human Choices Behind Megafires
By Harrison Tasoff, UCSB What happens when a sharp, young anthropologist joins an elite wildland firefighting crew — when scholarship co-mingles with blood, burns and sweat on the frontlines of America’s largest fires? In his book “When It All Burns” (Penguin RandomHouse,…
Novel Membrane Gel From UCSB Offers New Tool For Breast Cancer Research
By Cameron Walker, UCSB In 2020, right when Jane Baude was starting her Ph.D. research at UC Santa Barbara, she learned that a critical component of her experiment — the gel needed to grow and test mammary epithelial cells — wouldn’t…
Some Young Suns are Aligned with Their Planet-Forming Disks, Others are Born Tilted
By Sonia Fernandez, UCSB Researchers at UC Santa Barbara, The University of Texas at Austin, Yale University and National Taiwan Normal University have found that a fair number of sun-like stars emerge with their rotational axis tilted with respect to…