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An exterior shot of the former Staples building on State Street in downtown Santa Barbara
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Matt Perko
An exterior shot of the former Staples building on State Street in downtown Santa Barbara

UC Santa Barbara heads to State Street
Bright colors and different shapes meant to illustrate a photonic array
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Brian Long
Artist's concept illustration of a photonic memory array

A new optical memory platform for super fast calculations
vector image of people at checkout in grocery store
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Adrian Hillman

In a paradigm shift for autism, practitioners move beyond traditional demographics and toward adaptive environments
An illustration of a bright red hand holding a 1950s era microphone
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Courtesy Carol Stabile
This illustration appeared on the cover of 'Red Channels,' a 1950s-era newsletter by an anti-Communist group that contained names of supposed subversives in the entertainment industry.

The long-term effects of the Hollywood blacklist
black and white photograph of Martin Luther King Jr. at the Lincoln Memorial
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Wikimedia Commons
Martin Luther King Jr. on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington, August 28, 1963.

Campus events honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s struggle for equality
Students studying at UCSB's newly opened arts library
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Jeff Liang

Sara Miller McCune Arts Library opens for study, research and learning resources
Hundreds of pairs of blue, purple and white plastic gloves
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Sarah Kidwell
The program so far has diverted more than 4,000 pounds of single-use plastic from the waste stream

Getting an upper hand on glove waste
Portrait of Tinish Bhattacharya
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Courtesy UCSB Engineering
Tinish Bhattacharya in his UC Santa Barbara lab.

Innovative hardware for rapidly solving optimization problems
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Yang Yang’s wizardry with enzymes earns him early career recognition
photograph of a school psychologist speaking with a student
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iStock/Marcos Elihu Castillo Ramirez

Program addresses need for bilingual and culturally responsive school psychologists
A human brain against a background of double helices.
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Matt Perko
Differences in gene expression, not just their presence, seems to drive the remarkable specialization found in the human brain.

It’s all about expression
A dark salamander sits on a gloved hand.
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Brooklyn Stone
Noel the northwestern salamander hitched a ride on a Christmas tree from the Pacific Northwest to sunny Santa Barbara.

From forest to living room: How Christmas trees can transport wildlife across states
students eat together in dining commons
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Matt Perko

Gauchos give back: New program allows students to donate dining commons meals
Beautiful Black woman sitting in a dark theater with a prop box of popcorn
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Matt Perko
UCSB lecturer and producer Wendy Eley Jackson spotlights advocacy in a compelling new documentary.

In the theater with Wendy Eley Jackson: ‘Facing the Falls’
A hand holding up a pair of high-tech glasses on a black background
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Matt Perko
Using virtual reality, an AI module for future vision prostheses, designed by Michael Beyeler’s Bionic Vision Lab, creates practical and useful artificial vision.

Seeing the future: Michael Beyeler’s work in neurotechnology earns him top faculty award
Textile waste fills a dump in Bangladesh.
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Bdspn via iStock
Textile waste has become a major source of plastic pollution, with lower-income countries shouldering the brunt of the problem.

Apparel industry leaks millions of tons of plastic into environment each year
scientist holds a chip-scale ring resonator and a commercially available Fabry-Perot laser diode
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Sonia Fernandez
Andrei Isichenko holds the ultra-high-quality ring resonator (left), which can help turn the "coarse" light from a commercially available Fabry-Perot laser diode (right) into a low linewidth laser

Bringing the power of tabletop precision lasers for quantum science to the chip scale
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Six UCSB researchers named among world’s most influential scientists
signpost with three potential directions

Resolving ambiguity
silhouettes of people with gears and other systems in their heads

Rethinking autism through the diagnostic process
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