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Innovation Workshop Wizard Elina “Susy” Lopez Garza teaches students how to use a robotic sticker cutter.
UCSB program broadens STEM opportunity for underserved youth
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Jeff Liang
UCSB's Grace Han’s research centers on solar fuels that capture sunlight and convert it into usable heat.
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Fibroblasts secreting matrix-bound nanovesicles
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The El Niño Southern Oscillation drives major weather patterns across the globe. Disrupting it could have intense and far-reaching ramifications.
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Dorit Hanein
Dorit Hanein’s team and collaborators captured Rac1, a tiny molecular switch, rapidly building and breaking cellular scaffolds, revealing how cells swiftly reshape their skeletons to move and adapt.
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Eutrophication — caused by excessive nutrients, such as fertilizer runoff — causes a bloom of algae that depletes the water of oxygen and causes 'dead zones' that kill fish and other marine organisms
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Elena Zhukova
There’s a cacophony of acoustic signals below the range of human hearing, many quite intense, that you can pick up with the right “ears.”
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Matt Perko
A cancer researcher at UCSB investigates the potential for macrophages to selectively 'eat' solid tumor cells