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AI making connections

UCSB to host second annual AI Spring Symposium
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Lithium-ion batteries power everything from cell phones to laptops

Lithium shows its metal, paving the way for better batteries
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Jeff Liang
A group of KITP postdoctoral scholars interact at Kohn Hall on the UC Santa Barbara campus

Continuing to enhance the physics community
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A high-resolution rendered site plan for the San Benito student residential community

University progresses on development plans to expand student housing
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Giovanni Batz wins book prize for 'The Fourth Invasion'
Christopher Parker, Black man with yellow background and abstract effect
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Photo illustration by Matt Perko
Carnegie Fellow Christopher Parker, a UCSB political science professor, researches how polarization affects communities of color.

Political scientist Christopher Parker named a Carnegie Fellow
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To power AI, data centers need more and more energy
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Transparency in government is good for global health
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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.
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Jeff Liang

University and community agencies partner on safety measures for Deltopia
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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
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Left to right: Leda Cosmides, Adina Roskies, Rachel Segalman

‘The embodiment of scientific excellence and service’
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