Associate Professor David López-Carr and PhD student Daniel Ervin received a 2012 – 2013 UC Global Health Institute (UCGHI) Award for $8,853. This award will be used for Daniel’s dissertation research about dietary change in Latino immigrants. The Institute’s three multi-campus, transdisciplinary Centers of Expertise comprise dozens of faculty across the 10-campus UC system and are harnessing their expertise...
Read More“Hi – my name’s Bryan Karaffa, and I’m the new CNT/IT guy working with Dylan, Guylene, and some of the research groups in the department. I’ll be 25 in August and am a recent GIS graduate (Winter 2012). I grew up in Irvine and moved to Santa Barbara in 2006 after visiting a friend who was attending SBCC. Originally I was a Computer Science major at SBCC working to transfer to UCSB, but through an old...
Read MoreJune 2012 marks the 20th anniversary of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro. This conference, often simply called the Earth Summit or the Rio Conference, was hailed as the beginning of a new future for international environmental regulation and cooperation. 20 years later, how did the ideas and promises of the conference play out? The Journal of Environment and Development tackles this idea...
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