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Research Stories
MLPS Research stories from Convergence: The Magazine of Engineering and the Sciences
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Decades ago, children with severe social problems—many who didn’t talk and didn’t behave—were dispatched to psychiatric hospitals. Called “autistic,” they languished in a life of hopelessness, separated from family, friends, and normal life. Now UC Santa Barbara is leading the way, on two major fronts, in understanding and treating what has come to be recognized as a complex of disorders manifested in varying degrees of severity. |
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Start-up of the world’s largest particle accelerator hasn’t been exactly smooth... |
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With roots in geography and a reach into subjects ranging from music and psychology to black studies, spatial thinking is big at UC Santa Barbara. It all comes together at the UCSB Center for Spatial Studies, known as spatial@ucsb. Convergence Issue 10, Spring 2008
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