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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
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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
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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
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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
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NIH backs UCSB virtual reality project to help older adults build real social connections
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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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AI helps explain how covert attention works and uncovers new neuron types
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Addressing world hunger requires an accurate account of those in need.

Global measure underestimates the severity of food insecurity
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Matt Perko
Kylie Falcione

Brain science, social media and a modern moral panic
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UCSB physicists accept Nobel Prizes in Sweden
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The MicroBooNE detector being installed at Fermilab

MicroBooNE experiment finds no sign of light sterile neutrinos
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Snaring is an important hunting method. But it’s impact on African wildlife has become unsustainable.

Researchers map Africa’s snaring crisis, calling for sustainable solutions
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Baka, a waste collector, at home.

How Europe’s green transition is reinforcing racial inequality
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2026 Grad Slam opens call for graduate student competitors
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UCSB’s Education Abroad Program recognized among nation’s best
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The inaugural cohort of Engineering + Technology Management Fellows at UCSB

UCSB engineering students get a management edge with new program
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New haptic display technology creates 3D graphics you can see and feel
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Microbes are responsible for much of carbon sequestration in the ocean

The mystery of the missing deep ocean carbon fixers
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New UCSB research shows p-computers can solve spin-glass problems faster than quantum systems
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Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky, December 2024

A feat of multilingual research, Hamed-Troyansky’s “Empire of Refugees” wins eight book prizes
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