ISLA VISTA, Calif. --University of California Santa Barbara's Alcohol and Drug Program has a student run group called Life of the Party that is working to save lives. Life of the Party isn't new, but ...
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To her family and friends, she was Henrietta Lacks. To scientists, however, she is HeLa, the first “immortal” human cell line. A poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ...
Dr. Mario Garcia smiles during Saturday's event to celebrate his work and legacy. The sixth biannual Sal Castro Memorial Conference at UCSB focuses on the Chicano movement and history of Mexican ...
Aaron Loy sat on his surfboard, bobbing in the flat Pacific, waiting for a wave. It was an unusually light day seven weeks into his freshman year at UCSB -- no classes, no lacrosse team practice and ...
In the spring of 2013, humanitarian and activist Eva Haller received the inaugural Forbes Magazine Award for Excellence in Mentoring. That occasion, which happened to coincide with her 83 rd birthday, ...
A portion of the “code” of life has been unraveled by a UC Santa Barbara graduate student from the town of Jojutla, Mexico. Annia Rodriguez worked with John Perona, professor in UCSB’s Department of ...
In her book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, award-winning author Rebecca Skloot tells the story of the HeLa cell line, Lacks, and her descendants, many of whom feel betrayed by the scientific ...