Latest posts tagged with #UCSB on Bluesky
A UCSB group has launched the Santa Barbara County Active Transportation Dashboard bringing official and community-reported safety data together in one place, revealing patterns, trends and hotspots for collisions and near-misses across the county.
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#edhat #SBnews #UCSB
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What if quantum computers could help protect privacy and security instead of jeopardizing it? That’s what #UCSB's Prabhanjan Ananth is focusing on as part of a new National Science Foundation grant.
Full story: https://ow.ly/Js1N50YrUFW
A Mony's bowl for lunch. Yum. Not as fancy as 🦞 or 🦀 like @WhiskeyPete had... But still nummy. #UCSB
Congratulations to ECE & Materials Distinguished Professor Steven DenBaars for receiving the 2026 @optica.org Nick Holonyak, Jr. Award! 🏆💡
Read more about this prestigious honor: bit.ly/4lj15RH
#UCSB #Engineering #Optica #LED #Sustainability #GaN
It’s not difficult to join the perennial food movement, according to #UCSB's Liz Carlisle, whose research focuses on food and farming.
Co-editor of the book "Living Roots," Carlisle asserts that relying on perennial crops can ease the difficulties of a changing climate: https://ow.ly/OiMN50YrycZ
Scientists from #UCSB, UCSF, and CUNY have created a historical record linking extreme weather events to HIV cases.
Many people with HIV "live in areas that are historically and/or increasingly prone to severe weather events," said UCSB's Frank Davenport.
Full story: https://ow.ly/AhV850YpgS5
In a development that could transform how scientists study cancer, neurodegeneration and inflammation, #UCSB researchers have invented a modular, genetically encoded, protein-based sensor that enables MRI machines to visualize molecular activity inside cells.
Full story: https://ow.ly/cRmg50YqsiU
Group photo of the team member Ezra, Om, and David, with this faculty sponser. They are wearing navy blue team shirts.
3 UCSB @ucsb.bsky.social students are heading to the #ICPC North America Championship on March 19–22, 2026, after placing 4th out of 75 teams at regionals.
Congrats to Ezra Furtado-Tiwari, Om Mahesh, and David Qiao!
Read more: ccs.ucsb.edu/news/2026/cc...
#UCSB #GoGauchos #ComputerScience
UC Santa Barbara ranks first among U.S. public universities, third among all U.S. institutions, and seventh worldwide for scientific impact in engineering and the physical sciences, according to the 2025 Leiden Rankings.
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#edhat #SBnews #UCSB
#UCSB research has found that new LED designs the size of a human hair could replace lasers. This new microLED design improves both efficiency and beam directionality.
"We’re talking about devices that are literally the size of a hair follicle."
Full story: https://ow.ly/49HV50YkvgO
Ozempic makes headlines but it's just one in a growing class of drugs called peptide therapeutics. A #UCSB research team has developed a new technique for synthesizing non-natural amino acids and applying them to peptide construction.
Full story: https://ow.ly/EQCs50Yj17i
From the Bahamas to #UCSB and back again: Using citizen science smartphone app CoastSnap, Ph.D. student Divina Cox is monitoring sea level rise off the beaches of her home country.
Full story: https://ow.ly/m1g250YimR7
Congratulations to @ Spatial Students Yuyan Che, Lily Heidger, and Jiahua Chen on their AAG awards!
#spatial #aag #geography #ucsb #awards #research
When rebel movements win civil wars and take power, outcomes vary widely. In a new book, #UCSB's Kai Thaler argues that ideology plays a central role in shaping those divergent trajectories.
Full story: https://ow.ly/gL7T50YhMUr
Mosquitoes are the most dangerous animals in the world: A research team at #UCSB may have found a key to a new class of more effective, life-saving repellent 🦟
The team has identified the first known taste receptor in the mosquito gustatory system that detects fatty acids: https://ow.ly/trqt50YhfKR
🏆 #UCSB ranks #1 in scientific impact among public universities (#3 overall)!
Congratulations to our researchers!
@ucsantabarbara.bsky.social @ucsbengineering.bsky.social @uofcalifornia.bsky.social
Proud of our faculty, students, and the culture of excellence they've built. Go Gauchos! 💙💛 #UCSB
VIDEO: Mary's Danish- University of California Santa Barbara UCSB 5/6/89 xfer f/1st gen VHS tape incomplete
from my collection. got it in a tape trade in 1989
#marysdanish #UCSB
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Selected from a global field of composers, #UCSB professor João Pedro Oliveira has received a 2025 commission from the Fromm Music Foundation at Harvard University 🎼 🌎
Born in Portugal, Oliveira is one of jusyt 12 composers worldwide in this year’s cohort.
Full story: https://ow.ly/tk5550Y9EuE
In the 1940s & '50s, books about electronic brains introduced readers to machines that were inaccessible outside of government and industrial laboratories 💻📚
In a new book #UCSB's W. Patrick McCray examines the role books played in familiarizing Americans with computers: https://ow.ly/O9xl50Y5JSo
Get to know Michelle Zauner, the author of our UCSB Reads 2026 book selection, "Crying in H Mart." 📕
She is a Korean-American musician, writer, and the lead vocalist of indie pop band Japanese Breakfast. TIME named her 1 of the 100 most influential people of 2022.
#ucsb #ucsblibrary #ucsbreads
📰Research we did in Singapore and US was featured in the Berkeley's Greater Good Magazine! #NUS #UCSB #wellbeing #selfcontrol
Last week, we debuted our newest event, Spatial Sips🍷! This quarterly outreach event brings together our academic peers and the GIS community to discuss one of Spatial's impactful initiatives, services, or projects. This quarter, we focused on the Guide to the Geographic Approach🌎
#ucsb #geog #gis
It feels like AI is everywhere right now but questions surrounding its merits remain at the center of ongoing debate. #UCSB's Alan Liu will discuss "AI Virtue: What’s 'Good' Knowledge in the Age of Artificial Intelligence?" in a free event on Feb. 9.
Full story: https://ow.ly/23jl50Y1RlP
#UCSB materials professor Stephen Wilson found an innovative way to engineer unusual magnetic states, which could be impactful for quantum technologies 🧲
"It's meant to probe what physics may be possible for future devices," Wilson said.
Full story: https://ow.ly/oRKy50Y0PnV
We put a mic on our University Librarian Todd Grappone during the UCSB Reads book giveaway, and the results did not disappoint. Here’s what happened when he handed out hundreds of free copies of "Crying in H Mart" to @ucsantabarbara students.
#ucsblibrary #ucsb #ucsbreads
Get to know our UCSB Reads 2026 book selection, "Crying in H Mart" by Michelle Zauner! ❤️⭐
This vibrant and sensory memoir explores self-discovery, grief, and Korean-American culture through the celebratory lens of food and family.
#ucsb #ucsantabarbara #ucsblibrary #ucsbreads2026
