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Jigna Desai - a woman with dark hair and glasses with brown skin
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Jeff Liang
Professor Jigna Desai, director of UCSB's Center for Feminist Futures

Center for Feminist Futures: A commitment to liberatory knowledge and action
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Russell Sage Foundation taps UCSB social scientists for fellowships
Two views: An Etruscan shrew and the breeching hide of a blue whale
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Shrew: Trebol-a/CC BY-SA 3.0 Whale: Jeff Jacobsen

Reference genomes from the world’s largest and smallest mammals pave the way toward solving mysteries of development and lifespan
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Matt Perko

‘In the Shadow of the Seawall’ tackles coastal land use dilemmas in the age of sea level rise
Wind turbines behind solar panels at sunset
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iStock \ hrui

Evaluating and advancing equity in energy transitions
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Student debate team finishes second at national Ethics Bowl
700 Palms, Venice, CA
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Ehrhard Pfeiffer
700 Palms, Venice, California, Ehrlich Architects

Archive of multicultural modernist architect Steven Ehrlich adds to UCSB art museum collection
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UCSB communication professors honored for lifetime of achievements
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Debra Herrick
Nelson Lichtenstein

Historian Nelson Lichtenstein: Clinton betrayed progressives, capitulated to the right
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EAOP Higher Education Week brings college representatives to area high schools
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Expert on contemporary Chinese capitalism to speak at East Asia Center
A chiton sits among algae on a rock.
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Marcelo Rojas González via iNaturalist
The shell of the variable tonicia is covered in complex, image-forming eyes.

Unraveling the mystery of chiton visual systems
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UC Santa Barbara moves toward restoration of Ellwood Marine Terminal
Beijing’s Forbidden City lies shrouded in industrial smog.
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Holger Kleine via iStock
China’s infamous air pollution affects its citizens’ minds as well as their bodies.

Clearing the air reduces suicide rates
gears as brains on wooden silhouettes of heads facing each other

A holistic framework for studying social emotions
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Grad Slam 2024: Diverse 3-minute talks, cash prizes
two-panel painting by social justice artist Ty Rawls
Painting by social justice artist Tyhib Rawls for UCSB's Black Student Union

Black studies conference examines criminal legal system, unveils new social justice art
a cathedral in the middle of a mountain town in Colombia
Yarumal, a municipality in the foothills of the Andes north of Medellín, is one of several communities in Colombia that host a large kindred with a genetic form of early-onset Alzheimer's disease

Untangling a sticky mystery: Researchers make precious headway into a genetic form of Alzheimer’s disease
Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand in costume as Lord and Lady MacBeth
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Courtesy photo
Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand in Joel Coen’s 2021 film, “The Tragedy of Macbeth”

Translating a Shakespeare masterpiece into a mesmerizing movie
A foothill yellow-legged frog perches on a rock.
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Brome McCreary
Foothill yellow-legged frogs live in the flowing water of rivers and streams, so are especially vulnerable when these shrink to isolated pools.

Scientists assemble a richer picture of the plight and resilience of the foothill yellow-legged frog
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