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Matt Perko
Emily Jacobs

New study reveals changes in the brain throughout pregnancy
pink and black weaving
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Ruben Diaz
Sarah Rosalena, Spiral Arm Red, 2023. Hand-dyed cochineal wool yarn, cotton yarn, image source Milky Way Galaxy.

Artist Sarah Rosalena featured in six Getty PST ART shows, gains spot in LACMA’s collection
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UC Santa Barbara and City of Santa Barbara secure a grant to enhance pedestrian and cyclist safety
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Immersive ocean health project premieres at UCSB’s AlloSphere as part of Getty PST ART
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UC Santa Barbara partners with SB City College to expand workforce training in micro/nanotechnology and semiconductor manufacturing
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Opening up office hours
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Matt Perko
Paul Georg von Möllendorff Chinese cylinders, a collection of 16 recordings from the late 1800s

Linguistic artifacts: UCSB Library acquires rare Chinese audio recordings
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Graduate students receive national research fellowships, with significant funding
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Author measures memoir’s potential impacts on readers with eating disorders
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James Badham
Yangying Zhu (right), assistant professor in the UCSB Mechanical Engineering Department, receives her award certificate from ARPA-E Program Director Dr. Evelyn Wang at the National Academy of Sciences, in Washington, D.C.

Making desalination more efficient, by way of renewable energy
bald man in green car on fire with arrows chasing
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Wayne McCall
Keith Puccinelli, "Hot Rod Ambush," 2014. Blacklight ink and pen on paper, diptych. Gift of the Estate of Frances Garvin and Keith Julius Puccinelli.

Pooch’s World
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Exploiting atomically thin materials for energy efficient electronics
A globe made out of healthy foods with a stethoscope against a blackboard background.
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Udra via iStock

Billions worldwide consume inadequate levels of micronutrients critical to human health
scientists in lab with crates
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Jeff Liang
UCSB ExFAB staff and senior participants, from left, Oliver Vining, Elaine Kirschke, Jean-Marie Volland, Nathalie Elisabeth, Sherylle Mills Englander, Max Wilson, Michelle O'Malley, Joel Rothman, Niels Volkmann and Carolyn Mills.

UCSB to lead $22M NSF-funded center on exceptional microbes
glitched mosaic of images and data
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Laila Shereen Sakr
VJ Um Amel, "Boys on the Gaza Beach," digital mosaic, 2014

Laila Shereen Sakr’s ‘Arabic Glitch’ explores data, activism and technoculture
students with graduation regalia
Promise Scholars celebrate graduation

UCSB programs for student parents and low-income scholars win NASH awards
a group of Tanzanian men gather around a table and speak with a researcher
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David W. Lawson
A focus group of young men in Tanzania, led by project co-investigator Alexander Ishungisa (standing) and social scientist Elisha Mabula. (Photograph shared with participant consent.)

On gender: misperceptions about others can stifle women’s empowerment
Distinct patterns and traveling waves that can be generated by nonreciprocal interactions at the interface of two active matter systems. Video courtesy of Fridtjof Brauns.

Physicists work toward theory to describe pattern formation in conserved fields
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Aspiring engineers receive national research fellowships, with significant funding
Pedestrians in IR walk along a cobblestone street.
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It’s not quite heat vision, but mosquitoes do use thermal infrared to find human hosts.

Mosquitoes sense infrared from body heat to help track humans down
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