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 Six adults sitting across from one another near a chalkboard filled with equations
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Jeff Liang
A group of KITP postdoctoral scholars interact at Kohn Hall on the UC Santa Barbara campus

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Aerial view six white buildings surrounded by trees
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© SOM | Mithun
A high-resolution rendered site plan for the San Benito student residential community

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Christopher Parker, Black man with yellow background and abstract effect
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Photo illustration by Matt Perko
Carnegie Fellow Christopher Parker, a UCSB political science professor, researches how polarization affects communities of color.

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data servers center with blue neon lights
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woman on stage with cello and composer
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A still from UCSB student Travers Tobis's short film "The Circus Monkey," nominated for a Student Emmy Award.

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grad student Kirsten Rollins on stage giving her Grad Slam presentation
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Jeff Liang
Grad Slam champion Kirsten Rollins, April 3, 2025

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A fruit fly larva with imagined electric field lines in the background.
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Sakkmesterke vi Adobe Stock
Fruit fly larvae will reorient themselves toward the negative pole of an electric field.

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A women sitting in a red vinyl booth inside a diner
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Courtesy Jason Lapeyre
Nori Muster was a devotee of the Hare Krishna movement of the 1970s and 1980s

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A rat sits on a bag of grain.
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H. Zell via Wikimedia
The non-native black rat was the only small mammal infected with Hantavirus in an immensely biodiverse region of Madagascar. Animals trapped in agricultural fields carried the disease more often than those trapped in homes or in the rainforest.

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Pollution clouds a city skyline
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iStock / fazon1

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Two adults facing each other, surrounded by yellow flowers
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Matt Perko
The sum total of our daily communication comprises our “social biomes.”

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woman in dark light and shadow with red streaks of light
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Matt Perko
Jane Ward is a professor and chair of UCSB's Department of Feminist Studies

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Viviana Valle Gomez and Betsy Kaminski
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Matt Perko
Viviana Valle Gomez, left, and Betsy Kaminski, right, lead the UCSB Women's Center

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Leda Cosmides, Adina Roskies, Rachel Segalman
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Left to right: Leda Cosmides, Adina Roskies, Rachel Segalman

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The chemical element nickel denoted the number 28 from the periodic table
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iStock / Olena Yefremkina