Bebe Barron didn't compose for a decade, but in 1999 she was invited to create a new work at the University of California-Santa Barbara, using the latest in sound-generating technology.

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The 83-year-old activist is a trustee of the University of California at Santa Barbara Foundation, the Rubin Museum of Art, and the Creative Vision Foundation.

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Former BIHE student Pedram Roushan recently completed a PhD in physics at Princeton University, and is now a post-doctoral researcher at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

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The most influential sprang up in the nineteen-eighties at the University of California, Santa Barbara, was popularized in books by Steven Pinker and others in the nineteen-nineties, and has largely won over science reporters.

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One, championed by James Kennett, a paleo-oceanographer from the University of California, Santa Barbara, is that it was indeed released from clathrates.

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The 19-year-old undergraduate from Santa Barbara, California, disappeared while visiting friends at the University of Nevada, Reno.

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"Unlike the typical campaign stump speech, they are not trying to mobilize their respective bases, " said Gerhard Peters, co-director of the American Presidency Project at the University of California at Santa Barbara.

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When all the students tackled the same problems a second time, those who had done a simple, boring task during a break had more creative ideas than those who were assigned a tough cognitive puzzle, those who rested, or those who didn't take a break, says the study, co-authored by Jonathan Schooler, a psychology professor at the University of California at Santa Barbara.

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The machine is egg-shaped, three stories tall, and located on the campus of the University of California, Santa Barbara.

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He said he was motivated by the knowledge that he could give a voice to the gays, lesbians and bisexuals serving in the military -- a number estimated at 65, 000 by the Palm Center at the University of California, Santa Barbara, which researches sexual minorities in the military.

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Transphorm was co-founded in 2007 by CEO Umesh Mishra, a professor of electrical engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

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