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An aerial shot of a pumping plant for the California Aqueduct. The channel continues through pipes into the background toward parched hills.
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While reducing demand is important, most successful cases of groundwater recovery also involve moving huge amounts of water to meet demand.

Why some regions are winning the fight against groundwater depletion
white man with beard at sunset at beach with sunlight peering from behind his shoulder
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Matt Perko
Daniel Masterson, UC Santa Barbara

Political scientist Daniel Masterson named UCSB’s 7th Pahl Scholar
close up of photonics chip
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Jeff Liang

California prepares to accelerate quantum research and industry
UCSB Chancellor Dennis Assanis pictured with nonprofit CEO Melissa James
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Jeff Liang
UC Santa Barbara Chancellor Dennis Assanis in discussion with REACH President and CEO Melissa James

Regional leaders discuss education, industry, energy and housing
child at table with big colored crayons drawing on white paper
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Stephen Andrews, Unsplash

New study explores links between early-life gut microbiome and neurodevelopment
two researchers in blue, one holding a crab
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Matt Perko
Sophia Lecuona Manos, right, is one of several student researchers who discovered a new crab egg predator in the lab of UCSB parasitologist Armand Kuris, left, holding a yellow rock crab.

UCSB students discover new crab egg predator
A cyclists speeds down a bike path.
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Matt Perko
Integrating infrastructure for pedestrians, bicycles and motor vehicles makes for a healthier, more vibrant community.

New dashboard maps bike safety across Santa Barbara County
group shot of UCSB's Surfrider Battalion team
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Kailyn Heck
Surfrider Battalion team at Fort Hunter Liggett, pictured clockwise from top left: Madison Mohun, Yevgeny Beams, Darius James Khatami, Caz Arroyo, Zachary Trebotich, Jonathan Saenz, Fionn Bailey, Winston Bergseid, Jake Bermillo, Nicolas Gandolfo, Katelyn Hamel and Mia Lee

UCSB ROTC cadet team wins invite to prestigious West Point competition
A visualization of a magnetar with tilted accretion disk and energetic polar jets.
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Joseph Farah and Curtis McCully of LCO
A spinning magnetar twists space-time itself, causing the disk of material around it to wobble and produce the ultra-bright flashes of this peculiar kind of supernova.

UCSB researcher bridges the worlds of general relativity and supernova astrophysics
researchers at an optical table
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Matt Perko

UCSB’s Eddleman Quantum Institute announces new round of funding to accelerate quantum research
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Professional honors for two UC Santa Barbara geographers
grapes, asian pear, apple, persimmon, sweet potato and chestnuts

How farming perennial crops can help us in times of climate change, food insecurity and social division
Tiffany Chung in front of her map artwork at the UCSB AD&A museum
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Matt Perko
Tiffany Chung with her hand-embroidered maps in “Tiffany Chung: indelible traces” at UC Santa Barbara’s Art, Design & Architecture Museum.

Tiffany Chung’s exhibition at the AD&A Museum maps history within deep geological time
An anemometer against clouds and sky.
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Pixfly via iStock
3D printed instrumentation means that national meteorological services in Africa can take full ownership of their networks, building, repairing and sustaining them independently.

3D-printed weather station initiative enhances local monitoring in Southern Africa
red and purple blotches like blurry watercolor strokes like floating in yellowish gell with pick splotches and red strokes
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National Cancer Institute
Acute Myelocytic Leukaemia

UCSB researchers develop a genetic sensor that could allow MRIs to image molecular-level changes
a patient intake form, a stethoscope and a red ribbon that symbolizes HIV

HIV patients are especially vulnerable to extreme weather events
four dancers with flowy yellow skirts
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Stephen Sherrill
"We Were Light" by Annalise Evans, UCSB Dance Company

UCSB Dance Company to debut ‘Convergence’ before European tour
professors Tobias Fischer and Ben Halpern discuss AI in their research during a library speaker series
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Johannes Steffens
Earth science professor Tobias Fischer (left) and Bren School professor Ben Halpern at UCSB Library's "AI in Action" spreaker series

UCSB Library launches ‘AI in Action’ speaker series
Two padlocks appear floating in space linked by a colorful infinity symbol
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Brian Long
A new project aims to understand theoretical aspects of quantum cryptography that could be used to protect computing in the future.

Could quantum computers protect privacy and security?
Headshot of Caitlin Dickerson
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Earl Wilson
Caitlin Dickerson is a presenter in the Arts & Lectures Justice for All series

Pulitzer-winning journalist Caitlin Dickerson to give A&L Justice for All talk on deportation policies
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