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A deer looks a pair of hikers walking down a snow-covered trail.
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Gary Bendig via Unsplash
Our presence affects animals beyond merely how we’ve modified the landscape.

Data on human and wildlife movement during the pandemic suggest new ways for us to coexist
Sunbeams filter down on a algae-covered rocks on a shallow seafloor.
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Johan Holmdahl via iStock
Oxygenated seafloors were likely the cradle of eukaryotic life.

Early complex life clung to oxygenated seafloors for hundreds of millions of years
Snags cover a mountainside under white puffy clouds.
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Cavan Images via iStock
Forests can’t offset emissions as a carbon store if trees are constantly succumbing to droughts, pests and fires.

Carbon markets underestimate the risks U.S. forests face from climate change
a gray whale blows in in the San Francisco Bay
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Darrin Allen © NOAA Permit #26532
The new technology will detect whales by sensing the heat of their blows with thermal imaging

New AI system uses cameras and thermal sensors to steer ships clear of gray whales in the San Francisco Bay
concept illustration of the energy landscape of 2D materials

The first-time direct observation of exotic charge-neutral quasiparticles in twisted tungsten diselenide
Man in a blue shirt and tan pants tossing a blue bean bag, with a green tree and large building in the background
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Jeff Liang
The campus Bean Bag Toss Tournament brings out the crowds during the annual United for Education campaign.

UCSB’s United for Education campaign leverages small acts for big community impact
small model house with blue light
Alexis Childress, Experienced Isolation: Home, 2025, Digital Sculpture

MFA students featured in exhibition at AD&A Museum
Headshot of Yuheng Bu
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James Badham
Yuheng Bu is pursuing a project aimed at advancing watermarking

Yuheng Bu seeks a better way to ensure the trustworthiness of AI-generated text
hands holding up a piece of art with a woman blurry in background
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Elena Zhurkova/UCOP

Art of Wellness program offers students space to pause, create and connect
Concrete pours onto the ground on a construction site.
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Chaiyaporn1144 vis iStock
Cement production is an overlooked source of carbon emissions in public discourse.

Basalt could be the key to greener and cheaper cement
illustration of a person walking a tightrope between two heads, one thinking dark thoughts, the other thinking good thoughts
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iStock

Culture plays key role in people comfortable with contradiction and change
wide view of multiple modern buildings with green landscaping and people walking by
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Matt Perko/UC Santa Barbara

College of Engineering launches UCSB’s first fully online master’s degree program
A women in a black sweater and pink top sits on a chair, pointing, as another women in jeans with long grey hair looks her direction
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Jeff Liang
Playwright Melinda Lopez, left, with director Risa Brainin, during a rehearsal of "Standing Still."

Time to roll up your yoga mat and take a stand
Whale fluke, with cargo ship in background
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Asha de Vos

Global workshop focuses on protecting whales from ship strikes
A book with a red cover, titled Crying in H Mart, next to a photo of a young woman with dark hair on a yellow background
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Courtesy UCSB Library
Michelle Zauner, right, is the author of “Crying in H Mart,” the UCSB Reads program’s pick for 2026

UCSB Reads 2026 wraps up with Michelle Zauner’s appearance on campus
color photograph of Jia-Ching Chen
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Matt Perko
Jia-Ching Chen, May 2026

Global studies professor wins Fulbright to study energy geopolitics in Taiwan
overhead shot of giant collage mural on floor with one person touching it
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Courtesy
College of Creative Studies students created a mural for the exhibition “Scaling the Walls” at the Channing Peake Gallery and the Santa Barbara City Hall Gallery.

UCSB students and alumni featured in mural exhibition
wide shot of the interior of a building with people walking by blurred by motion
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Jeff Liang

UCSB to join major collaboration supporting battery innovation and commercialization
wildfire smoke rises behind a row of houses

Wildfire resilience has always been the goal. Now it's a number
four men stand shoulder to shoulder in matching blue team shirts
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Team UCSB-WA (left to right): coach Wesley Hung ‘24 (CoE Computer Science), Ezra Furtado-Tiwari ‘28 (CCS Computing, Mathematics), Om Mahesh ‘28 (CCS Mathematics; CoE Computer Science) and David Qiao ‘26 (CoE Computer Science; L&S Mathematics)

UCSB team heads to world finals in Dubai for programming competition
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