- Donald Bren
Donald Leroy Bren (born 1932) is a US real estate mogul born in Los Angeles, and currently residing in Newport Beach, CA. He is the son of Hollywood producer Milton Bren and the stepson of actress Claire Trevor. He attended the University of Washington, where he was a member of Beta Theta Pi, on a ski scholarship and tried out for the Olympic team in 1956. He holds a degree in business administration and economics. After college he served in the Marines. - Shuji Nakamura
Dr. Shuji Nakamura, who developed the world's first gallium nitride (GaN) LED, led the UCSB team, which focused on resonant cavity light-emitting structures. The LRC team, led by Director of Research Dr. N. Narendran, focused on challenges in packaging, testing and evaluation of nitride-based solid-state lighting. The LRC's work included: - Henry T. Yang
Henry T. Yang is the Chancellor of the University of California, Santa Barbara. Appointed in 1994, he is the fifth chancellor of the university. He also holds a professorship in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He had held the post of Neil A. Armstrong Distinguished Professor of Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering at Purdue University. He had also held the post of dean of engineering at Purdue. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, … - Nelson Lichtenstein
Nelson Lichtenstein (November 15, 1944) is a professor of history at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is best known as a labor historian and for his research into 20th century American political economics. - Leda Cosmides
Leda Cosmides, (born May 7, 1957 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American psychologist, who, together with anthropologist husband John Tooby, helped pioneer the field of evolutionary psychology. Cosmides originally studied biology at Harvard University, receiving her A.B. in 1979. While an undergraduate she was influenced by the renowned evolutionary biologist Robert L. Trivers who was her advisor. - Walter Kohn
Walter Kohn (born March 9,1923 in Vienna, Austria) is an Austrian-born American theoretical physicist. He was awarded, with John A. Pople, the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1998. The award recognized their contributions to the understandings of the electronic properties of materials. In particular, Kohn played the leading role in the development of the density functional theory, … - Lois Capps
Lois Grimsrud Capps (born January 10 1938), an American politician, has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1998, representing the 23rd District of California (District map), which was numbered as the 22nd District prior to the 2000 round of redistricting. It consists of a long, thin strip of the Southern California coast in San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara and Ventura counties. It includes the cities of San Luis Obispo, Morro Bay, … - Alan J. Heeger
Alan Jay Heeger (born January 22, 1936 in Sioux City, Iowa) is a United States physicist and chemistry academic and Nobel Prize winner. He earned his Ph.D in Physics from UC Berkeley in 1961. He won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2000 along with Alan G. MacDiarmid and Hideki Shirakawa "for their discovery and development of conductive polymers". He is currently a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara. - Michael Gazzaniga
Michael S. Gazzaniga (born December 12 1939) is a professor of psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he heads the new SAGE Center for the Study of the Mind. In 1961, Gazzaniga graduated from Dartmouth College. In 1964, he received a Ph.D. in psychobiology from the California Institute of Technology, where he worked under the guidance of Roger Sperry, with primary responsibility for initiating human split-brain research. - Mary Bucholtz
Mary Bucholtz is associate professor of Linguistics at the UC Santa Barbara. Bucholtz received her B.A. in Classics from Grinnell College in 1990 and her Ph.D. in Linguistics from UC Berkeley in 1995, and has held previous academic positions at Stanford and Texas A&M University. She is well-known for her contributions to research on language and identity within sociocultural linguistics, and especially the tactics of intersubjectivity framework developed with Kira Hall. - Finn E. Kydland
Finn Erling Kydland (born 1943) is a Norwegian economist. He is currently a professor of Economics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He previously taught at the Tepper School of Business of Carnegie Mellon University. Kydland was a co-recipient of the 2004 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics (shared with Edward C. Prescott), "for their contributions to dynamic macroeconomics: the time consistency of economic policy and the driving forces behind business cycles". - Tao Yang
Tao Yang is Chief Scientist and Senior Vice President of Ask.com for web search. He is a tenured full professor in Computer Science at University of California, Santa Barbara. Yang co-ran research and development of Teoma search engine with Apostolos Gerasoulis from its earlier startup stage in 2000 and at Ask Jeeves (now Ask.com) for Teoma web search after it acquired Teoma in 2001. Teoma has been the backend search engine for Ask.com since December 2001, … - Herbert Kroemer
Herbert Kroemer (born August 25, 1928) is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of California, Santa Barbara, received a Ph.D. in theoretical physics in 1952 from the University of Gottingen, Germany, with a dissertation on hot-electron effects in the then-new transistor, setting the stage for a career in research on the physics of semiconductor devices. - Jacob Israelachvili
Dr. Jacob Israelachvili is a professor of chemical engineering and materials at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). Dr. Israelachvili received his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Cambridge (in the United Kingdom) in 1972, and joined UCSB in 1986. His research has involved study of molecular and interfacial forces. His work is applicable to a wide range of industrial and fundamental science problems. - Bob Williams
Bob Williams is the head men's basketball coach at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He previously held the same position at the University of California, Davis. - Richard Mayer
Richard E. Mayer is an American educational psychologist who has made significant contributions to theories of cognition and learning, especially as they relate to problem solving and the design of educational multimedia. He has authored 18 books and over 250 articles and chapters. He received a PhD in psychology from the University of Michigan (1973), and is currently a professor of psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). - Reza Aslan
Reza Aslan earned a Bachelor of Arts in Religion from Santa Clara University, a Master of Theological Studies from Harvard University, a Master of Fine Arts in Fiction from the University of Iowa, and is currently a Doctoral Candidate in History of Religions at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Until recently, he was both Visiting Assistant Professor of Islamic and Middle East Studies at the University of Iowa and the Truman Capote Fellow in Fiction at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. - J. Gordon Melton
John Gordon Melton (b. September 19, 1942) is an American religious scholar who was the founding director of the Institute for the Study of American Religion and is currently a research specialist in religion and New Religious Movements with the Department of Religious Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of more than twenty-five books, including several encyclopedias, handbooks, … - Bernard Comrie
Bernard Comrie (born May 23, 1947 in Sunderland, UK) is a British-born linguist. He is a professor at and director of the Department of Linguistics at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, and Distinguished Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Between 1985 and 1986 he spent 12 months in New Guinea in the field working on the Haruai language. - James Hartle
James B. Hartle is an American physicist and professor of physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) since 1966.. He is known for his work in general relativity, astrophysics, and interpretation of quantum mechanics. Together with Stephen Hawking, he proposed the Hartle-Hawking wavefunction of the Universe - a specific solution to the Wheeler-deWitt equation meant to explain the initial conditions of the Big Bang cosmology. - Joseph Polchinski
Joseph Polchinski (born on May 16, 1954 in White Plains, New York) is a physicist working on string theory. He graduated from Canyon del Oro High School in Tucson, Arizona in 1971, obtained his B.S. degree from Caltech in 1975, and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1980. After postdoctoral positions at SLAC (1980-82) and Harvard (1982-84) he was a professor at the University of Texas at Austin from 1984 to 1992. - Angela Belcher
Angela M. Belcher is a polymath, having (so far) mastered materials science,biochemistry,molecular biology and electrical engineering. She is director of the Biomolecular Materials Group at M.I.T and a MacArthur Fellow,following the MacArthur Foundation awarding her their genius grant for 2004. - Curtis Roads
Curtis Roads is a composer of electronic and electroacoustic music specializing in granular and pulsar synthesis, author, and computer programmer. (CCMIX Paris) He studied composition at the California Institute of the Arts and the University of California, San Diego and teaches at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has previously taught at the University of Naples "Frederico II", Harvard University, Oberlin Conservatory, Les Ateliers UPIC (now CCMIX, … - Harold Marcuse
Harold Marcuse (b. 1957, Waterbury, Connecticut) is a professor of modern and contemporary German history at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He majored in physics at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut (B.A. 1979). He earned an M.A. in Art History from the University of Hamburg in 1987, with a thesis about a 1949 memorial dedicated "to the Victims of National Socialist Persecution and the Resistance Struggle". - Kip Fulbeck
Kip Fulbeck is an artist, filmmaker, writer, slam poet, and spoken word performer. His background is Cantonese, English, Irish, and Welsh. He attended UCLA, Dartmouth College, and UCSD. At UCSD, he was a four-year NCAA All-American Swimmer and 1988 Athlete of the Year. He earned his M.F.A. from UCSD in 1992. Fulbeck is recognized as one of the world's premier artists exploring Hapa identity. - John Foran
John Foran is an American sociologist with research interets in social movements, revolutions; social change; Third World cultural studies; Latin America and Middle East. He has a PhD from University of California, Berkeley and is a professor at University of California, Santa Barbara. - Walter Capps
Walter Holden Capps (born Omaha, Nebraska, May 5, 1934, died October 28, 1997) was a Democratic Party member of the United States House of Representatives. Capps had lost an election to Andrea Seastrand for the 22nd district in California in 1994, which had been a landslide year for the Republicans. Seastrand, a conservative, was targeted for defeat by a coalition of labor unions. - Howard Winant
Howard Winant is an American sociologist and race theorist. Professor Winant is most well known for developing the theory of racial formation along with Michael Omi. Currently, Winant is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Winant's research and teachings revolve around race and racism, comparative historical sociology, political sociology, social theory, and human rights. - Richard Anderson
Richard Andrew Anderson (born November 19 1960, in San Pedro, California) is a retired American basketball player in the NBA. A 6'10", 240 lb. power forward, he played collegiately at University of California, Santa Barbara from 1978 to 1982. He was selected with the 9th pick in the 2nd round of the 1982 NBA Draft by the San Diego Clippers. His NBA career lasted until 1990; his last season being with the Charlotte Hornets. - Verta Taylor
Verta Taylor is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Taylor previously taught in Sociology and Women's Studies at the Ohio State University. Her areas of specialization include: social movements; health; gender; sexuality; feminist studies. She co-authored: "Drag Queens at the 801 Cabaret" (with Leila J. Rupp, University of Chicago Press, 2003, ISBN ISBN 0-226-73158-8), … - Tsuyoshi Hasegawa
Tsuyoshi Hasegawa (b. 1941) is a Japanese historian, currently working at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His current field of research include the political history of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and Soviet-Japanese relations. He is also speaks English, Japanese, and Russian which help him give a different perspective when analyzing the Soviet-Japanese relations. - Ninian Smart
Additional biographical source: Ninian Smart. "Methods in My Life." Pp. 18-35 in "The Craft of Religious Studies", edited by Jon R. Stone. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998. - Tanya Atwater
Tanya Atwater is an American geophysicist and marine geologist who specializes in plate tectonics, in particular the evolution of the San Andreas fault plate boundary. Her educational work has focused on the creation of computer-animated multimedia products and presentations depicting plate tectonic histories. - Paul Orfalea
Paul Orfalea, nicknamed "Kinko" because of his curly red hair, born in Beirut, Lebanon, founded the copy-chain Kinko's. He is currently a philanthropist and a visiting professor in the Global and International Studies Department of the University of California, Santa Barbara and the Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at the University of Southern California Marshall School of Business. He was commemorated with a plaque by the community of Isla Vista, … - Dick Hebdige
Dick Hebdige (born 1951) is an expatriate British media theorist and sociologist, most commonly associated with the study of subcultures, and its resistance against the mainstream of society. He received his M.A. from the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies in Birmingham, United Kingdom. He is best known for his influential book in subcultural studies, Subculture: The Meaning of Style, originally published in 1979. - W. Patrick McCray
W. Patrick McCray (b. 1967) is a historian at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He researches, writes about, and teaches the history of science and the history of technology. McCray is the author of two books and over twenty articles which appeared in national and international journals. His first book detailed the history of Venetian glass technology during the Renaissance. - Richard Nelson
Richard K. Nelson (1941-) is a cultural anthropologist and writer whose work has focused primarily on the indigenous cultures of Alaska and, more generally, the relationships between people and nature. Nelson was born and raised in Wisconsin, attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and received his Ph.D. at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He lived for extended periods in Athabaskan and Alaskan Eskimo villages, … - Benjamin Cohen
Benjamin Cohen is the Louis G. Lancaster Professor of International Political Economy at the University of California, Santa Barbara. At UCSB, where he has been a member of the faculty since 1991, he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on international political economy. He previously taught at Princeton University and at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University. - Leila J. Rupp
Leila J. Rupp (born 1950) is a historian, feminist, and professor of women's studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her areas of interest include: women's movements, sexuality, LGBT and women's history. She was the editor of the "Journal of Women's History" from 1996 to 2004. - Brian M. Fagan
Brian Murray Fagan is an author of popular archaeology books as well as being emeritus professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA. Prof. Brian M. Fagan was born in England and educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he studied archaeology and anthropology (BA 1959, MA 1962, PhD 1965). He spent six years as Keeper of Prehistory at the Livingstone Museum in Zambia, Central Africa, and moved to the U.S.A. in 1966.
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