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A leader in promoting global engagement, reflecting diversity and embracing different perspectives
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Library’s new consultation service targets campus research labs
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Matt Perko

The university’s foundation board adds new trustees, welcomes new chair
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Center for Black Studies Research launches documentary series with ‘Slavery by Another Name’
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Neuroscientist Bianca Acevedo examines the impact and challenges of sensory processing sensitivity
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Materials scientist Chris Van de Walle receives top computational physics award from the American Physical Society
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Jeff Liang

Learn and grow: Dilling Yang Staff Scholarship Program marks 20-year milestone
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Kaustav Banerjee named a JSAP Fellow International
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Mapping Alzheimer’s: UCSB’s Cristina Venegas follows a genetic puzzle tracing Alzheimer’s roots from Colombia
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Coral underpin ecosystems as vibrant as they are. But these iconic animals face many challenges in the 21st century.

UC Santa Barbara leads $1.3-million research project on coral regeneration
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Campus teams with students, neighbors and local agencies to ensure a safe and serene Halloween
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Ferrets are among the vertebrates that get the most tumors, while black footed penguins get the fewest

Researchers complete the largest compilation of cancer prevalence across vertebrates
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Early Academic Outreach Program is ‘Planting Dreams’ at UC Santa Barbara
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UCSB’s cybersecurity chief on protecting digital spaces and the role of AI
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‘James’ author Percival Everett discusses reimagining ‘Huckleberry Finn’ and Black narratives with UCSB’s Stephanie Batiste
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UC Santa Barbara again named ‘Best Place to Work’
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Generational memory and labor, Southeast Asian refugee experience, in new Hương Ngô exhibition
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Is ‘U-shaped happiness’ universal? Not for rural subsistence populations, say researchers
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How art opens the mind: Professor Jonathan Schooler’s research on the cognitive effects of art
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Pioneering social scientist David Hamilton honored with lifetime achievement award
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