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Edward C. Prescott, Nobel Prize recipient, Economics, 2004 [2] John Robert Schrieffer , Nobel Prize recipient, Physics, 1972 [ 3 ] Frank Wilczek , Nobel Prize recipient, Physics, 2004 [ 4 ]
Convergence is the magazine of Engineering and the Sciences at UC Santa Barbara. Sponsored by the College of Engineering, the Division of Mathematical, Life, and Physical Sciences in the College of Letters and Science, and the California NanoSystems Institute, Convergence was begun in early 2005 as a three-times-a-year print publication.
Gary Don Libecap (born 1946) is an American economist who is currently an emeritus professor in the Department of Economics and the Bren School at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
UCSB Engineering is home to the nation's first NSF-funded Quantum Foundry, a center dedicated to developing materials for quantum information-based technologies.The College operates as the West Coast hub of the American Photonics Manufacturing Institute and is a key participant in the federal Next Generation Power Electronics Institute.
UCSB traces its origins back to the Anna Blake School, which was founded in 1891, and offered training in home economics and industrial arts. [18] [19] The Anna Blake School was taken over by the state in 1909 and became the Santa Barbara State Normal School, which then became the Santa Barbara State College in 1921. [20]
Finn Erling Kydland (born 1 December 1943) is a Norwegian economist known for his contributions to business cycle theory. [1] He is the Henley Professor of Economics [2] at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
One area of Lundberg's research concerns the labour economics of households. In her seminal 1985 paper, Lundberg developed the concept of the added worker effect, which explains countercyclical increases in the labour supply of married women as responses to their husbands' cyclical unemployment.* [10] In further work, Lundberg finds that the labour supply of married couples remains separately ...
From 1990 to 1998 he was a member of the Santa Barbara Board of Education. Since 2005, he has been a visitor and lecturer in economic thought and history at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Ebenstein is well-known in the Santa Barbara community as a supporter of education.