Adding to a run of student-led recycling programs at UC Santa Barbara, fourth-year undergraduate students Kaili Mikami and Lauren Buyalos are helping combat the rising tide of discarded plastics in ...

His biology class also visits the site to learn about its vegetation. "It's provided a great lab for our (students), and that was part of the purpose of the buffer zone," explains Henderson. "But also ...

The high carbon footprint typical of a lab space is due to multiple factors, including high energy usage and large volumes of waste. Labs generally use four to five times the energy of a similarly ...

This course is a multidisciplinary introduction to understanding the effects of human actions and social systems on the natural world. We will emphasize science and social-science based approaches to ...

Microorganisms have long been the object of study of life science disciplines. However, in recent years there has been evidence that simple physical and chemical processes govern many biological ...