Portable cocaine sensor developed at UC Santa Barbara
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) A real-time sensor for detecting cocaine made with inexpensive, off-the-shelf electronics has been developed by a team of researchers at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Two local high school students and a Nobel laureate participated in the discovery. The potential applications of the sensor are far-reaching and include bioterrorism detection and important...Barbara B. Kahn, M.D., elected to Institute of Medicine
BOSTON Barbara B. Kahn, M.D., chief of the division of endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) and professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School has been elected to the Institute of Medicine (IOM), it was announced today.... ......Established in 1970 by the National Academy of Sciences to honor professional achievement in the health sciences and t...UC Santa Barbara named to National Cancer Institute's multi-center nanotechnology collaboration
Santa Barbara, California October 10, 2005 UC Santa Barbara has been named to collaborate with UCSD and the Burnham Institute, in La Jolla, to apply its acumen in materials science and nanofabrication to the task of creating intelligent nanoplatforms that can deliver payloads of smaller particles to destroy, image or modify tumors, deliver therapies and perform key measurements. ......UCSB wil...Children's Hospital, Oakland's Dr. Barbara Staggers wins prestigious award
April 15, 2005 - Berkeley, CA - Dr. Barbara Staggers, director of Adolescent Medicine at Children's Hospital & Research Center at Oakland, will be awarded the Peter E. Haas Public Service Award, one of the most prestigious honors given by the University of California, Berkeley. The award recognizes an alumnus of the university who has made "a significant voluntary public contribution to the bett...