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A still from UCSB student Travers Tobis's short film "The Circus Monkey," nominated for a Student Emmy Award.

Student Emmy nomination goes to UCSB team for 'The Circus Monkey'
grad student Kirsten Rollins on stage giving her Grad Slam presentation
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Jeff Liang
Grad Slam champion Kirsten Rollins, April 3, 2025

Promising cancer research earns top honors at 2025 Grad Slam
A fruit fly larva with imagined electric field lines in the background.
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Fruit fly larvae will reorient themselves toward the negative pole of an electric field.

Scientists discover that fruit fly larvae can sense electric fields
A women sitting in a red vinyl booth inside a diner
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Nori Muster was a devotee of the Hare Krishna movement of the 1970s and 1980s

Seeking inner peace, finding moral rot
A rat sits on a bag of grain.
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The non-native black rat was the only small mammal infected with Hantavirus in an immensely biodiverse region of Madagascar. Animals trapped in agricultural fields carried the disease more often than those trapped in homes or in the rainforest.

Hantavirus in Madagascar linked to black rats in agricultural areas
Pollution clouds a city skyline
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iStock / fazon1

Transparency in government is good for global health
Two adults facing each other, surrounded by yellow flowers
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Matt Perko
The sum total of our daily communication comprises our “social biomes.”

Improve your life by embracing everyday, even mundane, conversations? Research says yes.
An empty street lined with palm trees, before sunset
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Jeff Liang

University and community agencies partner on safety measures for Deltopia
two trucks high five

UCSB psychologist contributes to DreamWorks’ ‘Mighty Monsterwheelies,’ now on Netflix
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2025 Grad Slam set for final showdown at Campbell Hall
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Matt Perko
Jane Ward is a professor and chair of UCSB's Department of Feminist Studies

How feminist witch studies redefine magic and power
Viviana Valle Gomez and Betsy Kaminski
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Matt Perko
Viviana Valle Gomez, left, and Betsy Kaminski, right, lead the UCSB Women's Center

Visibility, inclusivity and community: UCSB Women’s Center celebrates 50 years
Leda Cosmides, Adina Roskies, Rachel Segalman
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Left to right: Leda Cosmides, Adina Roskies, Rachel Segalman

‘The embodiment of scientific excellence and service’
The chemical element nickel denoted the number 28 from the periodic table
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iStock / Olena Yefremkina

Adding nickel atoms to improve a silver catalyst
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New microCT machine unites biologists and materials scientists
machine learning brain symbol on circuit board, 3D rendering
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iStock / Karneg

Inspired by early biomimetic approaches, Kerem Çamsarı’s work evokes features of neural connectivity
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Winner of Second Chance round advances to Grad Slam campus final
Members of Girl Gains outside
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Jeff Liang
From left Girl Gains executive board, Jayden Ruth, Sindhu Guddanti, Teagan Golden, Awni Broughton, Ariana Rivera, Lola Alvarez, Emily Ge and Andelina Miller.

Girl Gains empowers women through weightlifting and community
artist rendering of #D semiconductor architectures using 2D materials
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Brian Long/UCSB

Next-gen 3D transistors transform energy-efficient electronics
man of East Asian descent in stadium with dramatic light
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Jeff Liang
Professor Sameer Pandya at UC Santa Barbara's Harder Stadium

In Sameer Pandya’s ‘Our Beautiful Boys,’ teenage secrets are the dark heart of suburbia
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