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Side-by-side sketch and photo of two teens in colorful plaid skirts and jackets
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Costume designer Mona May's book, “The Fashion of Clueless,” details how the iconic looks of Cher, Dionne and Tai evolved from sketch to screen.

How ‘Clueless’ used costumes to create its characters
Jenni Sorkin headshot with campus background

Warhol Foundation selects Jenni Sorkin for Arts Writers Award supporting book on 1990s textile art
color portrait photograph of Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English Alan Liu
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Matt Perko
Distinguished Professor Emeritus Alan Liu, January 2026

Faculty Research Lecturer Alan Liu ponders ‘good’ knowledge in the age of AI
scientist at work
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Matt Perko
A researcher in the lab of Stephen Wilson, whose group studies how magnetic interactions can produce unusual states of matter relevant to quantum research.

Using magnetic frustration to probe new quantum possibilities
A river meanders through green jungle on the edge of a large city.
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Thiago Japyassu via Unsplash
Yellow fever cases have begun to rise, spilling over the expanding border between the forest and urban areas.

Old diseases return as settlement pushes into the Amazon rainforest
Headshot of Michael V. Drake
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Michael V. Drake, M.D.

UC President Emeritus Michael Drake, M.D. to speak on campus in a free event
A super cargo ship is tended to by cranes and trucks in a commercial terminal. Lights from the port brighten the dimming sky, with mountains and low clouds in the distance.
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Curtailing overconsumption may be the easiest target for reducing the societal and environmental impacts of climate change.

UCSB professor tapped to co-author the seventh IPCC assessment report on climate change mitigation
molecules in blue
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Anusorn Nakdee/iStock

Designing better catalysts for cleaner, more efficient chemistry
Black and white photograph of Martin Luther King Jr at the Lincolm Memorial during the 1968 March on Washington
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National Park Service / Wikimedia Commons
Martin Luther King Jr. at the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington, August 28, 1963

UCSB kicks off MLK Day holiday weekend
Sunlight streams down through the kelp forest canopy.
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UC Santa Barbara
Declines in water clarity are a pressing concern for coastal ecosystems.

Scientists create a system for tracking underwater blackouts
female student reads on bench outside
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Matt Perko

Even brief lapses in attention can weaken memory
a small group of high school students posed for a picture on the truck of a giant fallen oak tree
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Caasi Chavez
Students from Lompoc High School at the Jack and Laura Dangermond Preserve

Bren School environmental education for local teens reaches new heights at Dangermond Preserve
city neighborhood from aerial view
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iStock

New data shows gun violence drives major declines in neighborhood foot traffic and economic growth
Two students ascend the modern stairway of an academic building with bright sun overhead
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Matt Perko

New, no-cost initiative helps undergraduates earn professional certificates and professional placement
kids look at machine with instructor
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Innovation Workshop Wizard Elina “Susy” Lopez Garza teaches students how to use a robotic sticker cutter.

UCSB program broadens STEM opportunity for underserved youth
A pregnant woman is silhouetted by diffuse, warm sunlight.
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The health of a woman and her future child may be at risk before she even knows she’s pregnant.

Hot, humid conditions during pregnancy undermine child health much more than heat alone
A pair of comets partially melt as they collide in an inset image, lower right, with the system’s young star and accretion disk in the background.
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Thomas Müller (MPIA/HdA)
Scientist imagine the scene when two comets collided in the Fomalhaut system, only 25 light years from Earth.

Astronomers discover huge dust clouds from violent collisions around nearby star
man sitting on chair with newspaper cover background
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Matt Perko
UC Santa Barbara English assistant professor Jim Casey is leading a project to recover and share 19th-century African American newspapers using artificial intelligence.

$750,000 Schmidt Sciences grant uses AI to transform Black press archives
two older white people on couch with virtual reality headsets
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Rendever.com

NIH backs UCSB virtual reality project to help older adults build real social connections
A pair of divers use bongo nets to collect marine snow in dark, blue water.
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J. Morin/ NOAA
Much of the organic carbon sinking into the deep ocean is carried by tiny organic particles known as marine snow.

A stormy ocean voyage yields insights on the global carbon cycle
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