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Materials Research at the University of California, Santa Barbara
Author(s) -
Auston David H.,
Fredrickson Glenn H.,
Hawker Craig J.,
Morse Daniel E.,
Pollock Tresa M.,
Seshadri Ram,
Bazan Guillermo C.
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
advanced materials
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 10.707
H-Index - 527
eISSN - 1521-4095
pISSN - 0935-9648
DOI - 10.1002/adma.201101196
Subject(s) - materials science , library science , engineering physics , engineering ethics , archaeology , polymer science , nanotechnology , engineering , history , computer science
Figure 1 . Aerial view of the Marine Corps Air Station Santa Barbara. Photograph courtesy of UCSB Photographic Services. The antecedents of the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) trace back to 1891, when Anna S. C. Blake arrived from Boston to take up residence in the small mission city by the Pacifi c Ocean and shortly thereafter founded a manual training school. This private school was supported entirely by Miss Blake until her death in 1899, after which the city school district assumed expenses, with some aid from Miss Blake’s estate. The state took over responsibility for the school in 1909 and, after a couple of iterations in the name, became the Santa Barbara State College in 1935. It continued in that form until 1944, when the Regents of the University of California accepted responsibility, in accordance with a legislative bill approved by the state governor. The ultimate result was the creation of a new branch of the University of California for which the Regents originally envisioned a small liberal arts college. The campus moved in 1949 to an ex-Marine Base on a seaside mesa in Goleta with excellent accessibility to the beach and a beautiful ocean vista ( Figure 1 ). Increased enrollment pressure, in part as a result of the G.I. Bill, led to the designation