UC Santa Barbara's Top News & Featured Events

March 10, 2026

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HIV patients are especially vulnerable to extreme weather events

In an approach that can be used on populations managing endemic diseases, researchers link real-life climate and weather data to a large multinational cohort of HIV patients to illustrate the effects of extreme weather on people with the infectious disease.

 

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An explosion of light fires out strings of 1s and 0s

A robust new telecom qubit in silicon

Researchers in Professor Chris Van de Walle’s Computational Materials Group discover a more durable defect for quantum applications.

 

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Microscopic view of Acute Myelocytic Leukaemia

UCSB researchers develop a genetic sensor that could allow MRIs to image molecular-level changes

The modular, genetically encoded, protein-based sensor enables MRI machines to visualize molecular activity inside cells. It could transform how scientists study cancer, neurodegeneration and inflammation.

 

Read more about the sensor-based approach

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▤ Featured Events

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Jazz for the Soul

Thursday, March 12

Professor Jeffrey Stewart presents an evening with Ben Caldwell and Love in Exile Players as part of Jeffrey’s Jazz Coffeehouse.

Montgomery Clift and Marilyn Monroe in a scene from 'The Misfits'

CWC Classics: The Misfits

Thursday, March 12

Emily Carman of Chapman University joins CWC Interim Director Ross Melnick for a post-screening discussion of the 1961 John Huston western.

UCSB Gospel Choir sings onstage

UCSB Gospel Choir Winter Concert

Friday, March 13

Victor Bell directs a concert of traditional and contemporary gospel, including the music of the late Richard Smallwood.

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