UCSB snags $20M grant
UC Santa Barbara’s materials researchers have received a $20 million grant to carry on their studies until at least 2017. The money came from the National Science Foundation. UCSB houses one of the foundation’s Materials Research Science and Engineering Centers and has received support since 1992. “Competition for these flagship centers is fierce,” Craig Hawker, Read More →
Social network startup targets college crowd
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Grant leaves entrepreneurial legacy at UCSB
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Study targets diabetes
New research conducted on the South Coast could point the way to the prevention and cure of type two diabetes.
UCSB series digs at roots of banking crisis
During the next five months, UC Santa Barbara will host a series of talks in which Nobel Prize-winning economists, best-selling financial journalists and other experts will take a deep look at the financial crisis and its aftermath.
Textbook hookup: Students develop tract-sharing app
A trio of UC Santa Barbara entrepreneurs wants to revolutionize the $5.5 billion U.S. textbook market with their book-sharing application 1night.me.
A $14.5M bet on computing supremacy
Last week, I spoke with Fareed Zakaria, an author and editor-at-large for Time magazine as well as a CNN host. He’s put a lot of thought into the “rise of the rest” — that is, what the post-American world is going to look like.
You can trot out the statistics of your choice to show how America is fast losing its technological edge. We lag other countries in math and science scores. But Zakaria pointed out a number to me that’s much more foreboding — citations in peer-reviewed research.
