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By Staff Report / Thursday, December 5th, 2013 / South Coast, Technology, Top Stories / Comments Off on UCSB snags $48M in Army funds for biology-related research
UC Santa Barbara said Dec. 5 that the U.S. Army has renewed its contract with the university’s Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies, providing an additional $48 million over three years to support biology-related research.
The new funds extend a decade of unclassified research in areas such as biotechnology tools, futuristic materials, energy generation and storage, systems and synthetic biology and neuroscience.
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By Dana Olsen / Friday, December 21st, 2012 / Top Stories / Comments Off on UCSB scientist joins push for research funds
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By Staff Report / Friday, March 23rd, 2012 / Letters to the Editor, Opinion / Comments Off on Letter: With Prop. 29, the devil is in the details
This measure allows Californians’ hard-earned tax dollars to be spent outside the state, even outside the country.
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By Stephen Nellis / Friday, October 28th, 2011 / Features, Technology / Comments Off on Shaking up science: UCSB team derives formula for oil and water
A team at UC Santa Barbara has derived a formula to describe why oil and water don’t mix.
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By Staff Report / Monday, October 10th, 2011 / Latest news, Technology / 1 Comment
UC Santa Barbara’s Materials Research Laboratory has received up to $15 million from Dow Chemical Co. to establish a new institute to study materials that can further technological discovery. The recent five-year gift comes just weeks after the research lab received $20 million from the National Science Foundation to fund its studies through at least Read More →
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By Stephen Nellis / Friday, August 19th, 2011 / Technology, Top Stories / Comments Off on Study targets diabetes
New research conducted on the South Coast could point the way to the prevention and cure of type two diabetes.
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