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WEBWith an eye in the sky, researchers can track white sharks off the coast. September 30, 2024. Scientists use drones to track white sharks along California beaches. The structural complexity of a healthy coral reef provides habitat for a diversity of lifeforms. September 26, 2024. Dead coral skeletons hinder reef regeneration by sheltering seaweed.
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WEBSep 30, 2024 — Federal broadband subsidies boosted rural internet, but service faded once funding ended, researchers find. September 23, 2024.
UCSB to lead $22M NSF-funded center on exceptional microbes
WEBAug 29, 2024 — Andrew Masuda. This week, the National Science Foundation announced the award of a six-year, $22M grant to UC Santa Barbara under its biofoundries program for the establishment of the BioFoundry for Extreme and Exceptional Fungi, Archaea and Bacteria (Ex-FAB), a collaboration led by UC Santa Barbara (UCSB), together with UC Riverside (UCR), and ...
Researchers' reconstruction of fruit fly’s anterior visual pathway …
WEB14 hours ago — UC Santa Barbara neuroscientists have reconstructed the entire anterior visual pathway of a fruit fly, a complex series of connections between the insect’s eyes and the navigation center of its brain.With the help of artificial intelligence and manual proofreading, systems biologist Sung Soo Kim’s research group and collaborators worked out the relationships between more than 3,000 neurons ...
Talk on AI and the creative process kicks off Interdisciplinary ...
WEB17 hours ago — The Key Passages inaugural event, “ AI: A New Passage to Human Creativity? ” features UCSB’s Sowon Park, an associate English professor specializing in cognitive literary criticism.As Park explores the impact of artificial intelligence on the production of fiction and, more broadly, on creativity itself, her talk will ask a range of AI questions related to writing, she said, including ...
SciTrek, UCSB’s largest education outreach program, garners new …
WEBAug 13, 2024 — Reaching students earlier. In 2010, Feldwinn and biochemistry professor Norbert Reich had an idea: Get enthusiastic undergraduate volunteers to lead hands-on learning experiences in K-12 classrooms. Now entering its 14th year, the SciTrek outreach program is set to expand its scope and offerings. Spearheaded by U.S. Representative Salud Carbajal, a nearly $1 million grant directly from ...
UC Santa Barbara researchers launch CoastSnap, citizen science ...
WEBApr 10, 2024 — About UC Santa Barbara. The University of California, Santa Barbara is a leading research institution that also provides a comprehensive liberal arts learning experience.
University progresses on development plans to expand student …
WEBFeb 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). The first phase of …
UC Santa Barbara leads $9 million research project on ocean cycles
WEBJun 3, 2024 — UC Santa Barbara leads $9 million research project on ocean cycles. Harrison Tasoff. The ocean is a vast and complex web of intertwined systems. Chemistry, currents, temperature and nutrients all ebb and flow, each feeding back into the others. A multinational research team, led by UC Santa Barbara’s Tim …
From impact to academics to outcomes, UC Santa Barbara ranks …
WEBSep 18, 2023 — In student outcomes and academics. In affordability and social mobility. For return on investment. For overall excellence. In multiple rankings across an array of metrics, UC Santa Barbara continues to place in the upper echelons of higher education.