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color photo of a UCSB grad student and a local junior high teacher in the classroom
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Maria Zate / UCSB Gevirtz Graduate School of Education
Teacher Education Program graduate Isabella Garcia-Bernasconi (left) with La Colina Junior High School teacher Cameron Hatcher-Day

Back to school: UCSB teacher candidates assist local K-12s
a picture of smoke rising from a wildfire in the hills behind a coastal city
The Palisades Fire of January, 2025, burned watersheds in the Santa Monica Mountains, subsequently impacting water quality at several Southern California beaches

Researchers link wildfires in California’s coastal watersheds to the water quality at the beach
drawing of animals at table
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AM / UCSB Library
Detail from Thomas Nast's layout design for the story of "Poor Robinson Crusoe", c.1880-1900.

Expanded humanities and social science collection at UCSB Library is a research treasure trove
An aerial view of the Totten Ice Shelf during the 61st Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition in late 2019 and early 2020.
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Yoshihiro Nakayama
The Totten Ice Shelf contributes to ice loss in East Antarctica, but this was offset by the increased snowfall from 2021 to 2023.

Antarctica’s brief rebound was caused by climate variability, not a ‘new normal’
man with facial hair in PPE holding a vial in a lab coat
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Courtesy
Doctoral student Andrew White receives personalized guidance in UCSB’s Interdisciplinary Predoctoral Training Program in Quantitative Mechanobiology.

NIH support expands mentorship and training for UCSB bioengineering students
Bolivian tribe receiving health education regarding COVID-19
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Michael Gurven
A health educator conveys information about COVID-19 transmission to members of Bolivia's Tsimané population

Tsimané and Moseten peoples of lowland Bolivia demonstrate an intriguing case of epidemiological resilience
Two Caribbean reef sharks swim past a coral-encrusted rock on a flat, sandy bottom in clear blue water.
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Photo by Alex Rose on Unsplash
Caribbean reef sharks are frequent denizens of Caribbean coral reefs, and their scales certainly find their way into the region’s sand.

Two oceans, one country, 20 times the number of sharks
Two Mapuche women smiling and wearing colorful, traditional attire with silver necklaces.
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Oscar Gutierrez Zozulia via iStock
The Mapuche are Chile’s largest Indigenous group, having retained independence form the Spanish empire for centuries.

Indigenous land restitution empowers communities, but environmental gains require extra support
black and white aerial photograph from 1929 of the coast between Cole Oil Point and Campus Point
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Fairchild Aerial Surveys / UCSB Library Special Research Collections
A 1929 aerial photograph of what is now called Coal Oil Point (lower left), Isla Vista and UC Santa Barbara's Campus Lagoon

UCSB team saves historic aerial photos critical to coastal research
a pair of elderly hands hold onto a walker

Researchers find direct human evidence for a neural circuit that may help better understand a mystery of Parkinson’s Disease
Female scientist with choral background
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Assistant professor of bioengineering Marley Dewey

NSF grant supports Marley Dewey’s work to restore coral reefs
hand holding a pair of prosthetic glasses
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Matt Perko
UCSB’s Michael Beyeler is using AI to improve visual cortical prostheses, or “bionic eyes.”

Deep learning refines how bionic eyes communicate with the brain
a charging cable into an electric vehicle at sunset.
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Michael Fousert, Unsplash
Accounting for the emissions over a vehicle’s entire lifecycle overturns the sunk-cost thinking that keeps gasoline vehicles on the roads.

Thinking about trading your car in for an EV? There’s a compelling new reason to do it now
color graphic image of the UCSB Reads logo

Library opens voting for UCSB Reads 2027
aerial photo of fractal shape on landscape created by erosion
Vegetation highlights a self-similar repeating pattern created in the landscape by erosion

UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow uses fractals to study erosion
Artist in black clothing in front of monumental textile work in red, blue, white and black
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Damien Maloney
Associate Professor of Art Sarah Rosalena with "Threading the Infinite: Omnidirectional Terrain" in LACMA's new Geffen Galleries.

Sarah Rosalena creates monumental textile work for LACMA’s new galleries
A shark fin sticks out of the ice at a fish market.
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enginakyurt11 via iStock
Small and easily stored, shark fins can be far more valuable than the rest of the animal’s carcass.

Combining fishing regulations and trade data reveals the complex global market for shark products
Christopher Costello
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Matt Perko
Christopher Costello

Christopher Costello recognized for his pioneering work in environmental markets
woman with red hair in blue lab coat with purple gloves at work at counter in laboratory
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Courtesy
BioPACIFIC MIP lab assistant Marissa Beyer

UCSB to lead national cloud laboratory for advanced materials
color photograph of professor Wenfei Xu sitting outside
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Matt Perko
Wenfei Xu, an assistant professor of geography at UC Santa Barbara, coauthored the study "New Deal mortgage programmes benefited white borrowers disproportionately" in the journal Nature.

Exclusionary federal mortgage lending widened racial wealth gap in the US
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