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Convergence, the award-winning magazine of Engineering and the Sciences, is designed to offer insight into the breakthrough, interdisciplinary research and teaching at UC Santa Barbara. The writing and design are engaging and the topics are timely and fascinating. Take a look, and let us know what you think.

Questions or comments? Please email Tony Rairden, Communications Manager, at TRairden@Engineering.UCSB.edu.

Spring 2008, Volume 10

Contents Include:
Spatial Thinking
Q&A with Linda Petzold
Where the Wild Things Are
Spreading the Word
Energy-Efficient Buildings

Fall 2007, Volume Nine

Contents Include:
Plastic Power
Climate Clues
More from Less
Hydrogen Highway
Control Freaks

Summer 2007, Volume Eight

Contents Include:
Life-Saving Sand
Next Stop Mars
Silicon and Beyond
That Vision Thing

Spring 2007, Volume Seven

Contents Include:
Is That Tea Real?
Biobusters
Mapping the Body's Zip Codes
He'll Keep You in the Dark
Q&A: Earl and Almeroth

Winter 2006, Volume Six

Contents Include:
Hacking for Credit
The World's Smallest Factories
Q&A: Jean-Pierre Fouque
Brain Food
Got Gas?
Taking Technology to the Village

Summer 2006, Volume Five

Contents Include:
The New Electronics
Six Microns Under
The Next Big Things
Up Close and Digital
Wireless Unjammed
Nano in Society
Shorts... Have you heard?

Spring 2006, Volume Four

Contents Include:
The Robot Will See You Now
Surface Attention
Light My Fire
Silicon from Sea Life
Laser Tag
Shorts...Have you heard?
Q&A with Tanya Atwater

Fall 2005, Volume Three

Contents Include:
A New Century for Physics
Fantastic Voyage
Engines of Discovery
The New Aerospace
Scoping Out the Synapse
Q&A with Michael Gazzaniga

Summer 2005, Volume Two

Contents Include:
Systems Biology: Real Life
Outsmarting the Smart Bugs
Re-Inventing the Claw
The Inherited Mind
An Engineer in Orbit

Winter 2005, Volume One

Contents Include:
Solar Power: Photovoltaics with a Twist
Location, Location, Location
Watching Your Brain
Q&A with Nobel Laureate David Gross
The UV Lagoon: Primordial Nano Soup