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Earth from space, centered on North America
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NASA

Moving beyond money to measure the true value of Earth science information
Black woman with a box of popcorn sits in movie theater
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Matt Perko
UCSB's Wendy Eley Jackson

UCSB filmmaker Wendy Eley Jackson’s ‘The Other Roe’ at SBIFF
fighters raising their arms and waving a flag
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Book cover detail for "When Rebels Win" by Kai Thaler (Cornell University Press, 2025).

Why some rebel victories build states — and others break them
portraits of ucsb political scientists Matto Mildenberger and Neil Narang against the backdrop of the White House
Political scientists Matto Mildenberger (left) and Neil Narang

UCSB scholars join podcast recap of national headlines from 2025
Two students look at the UCSB Reads book exhibition
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The university’s award-winning common book program is the focus of "Creating Community Through Books: 20 Years of UCSB Reads," on display until Dec. 11.

New library exhibition celebrates 20th anniversary of UCSB Reads
The interactive learning pavilion, seen from below
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Matt Perko

UCSB unveils new tools and reporting platform, transforming financial management
Joao Oliveira
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Debra Herrick

João Pedro Oliveira named 2025 Fromm Music Foundation composer
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Matt Perko
Chemistry Nobel Laureate and birthday celebrant Alan Heeger, center, flanked by his wife Ruth, right, and symposium organizer, CPOS Director Thuc-Quyen Nguyen

UCSB Chemistry Nobel Laureate Alan Heeger celebrates his 90th birthday with a symposium in his honor
Black historical images
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Douglass Day at UCSB invites the public to transcribe Black history
color photographic portrait of writer julissa arce

Mexican-American Dreamer Julissa Arce wins Luis Leal literary award
Oil droplets suspended in water.
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Carther via iStock
Small, naturally occurring droplets could have accelerated the development of early life.

Electrifying biology in a bubble
book shelves in library
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Jeff Liang

How books helped make computers mainstream
The table of contents from Mona May's book, “The Fashion of Clueless”
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The looks May created for the film helped define a generation and solidified fashion as a key character in the story.

How ‘Clueless’ used costumes to create its characters
Jenni Sorkin headshot with campus background

Warhol Foundation selects Jenni Sorkin for Arts Writers Award supporting book on 1990s textile art
color portrait photograph of Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English Alan Liu
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Matt Perko
Distinguished Professor Emeritus Alan Liu, January 2026

Faculty Research Lecturer Alan Liu ponders ‘good’ knowledge in the age of AI
scientist at work
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Matt Perko
A researcher in the lab of Stephen Wilson, whose group studies how magnetic interactions can produce unusual states of matter relevant to quantum research.

Using magnetic frustration to probe new quantum possibilities
A river meanders through green jungle on the edge of a large city.
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Thiago Japyassu via Unsplash
Yellow fever cases have begun to rise, spilling over the expanding border between the forest and urban areas.

Old diseases return as settlement pushes into the Amazon rainforest
Headshot of Michael V. Drake
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Michael V. Drake, M.D.

UC President Emeritus Michael Drake, M.D. to speak on campus in a free event
A super cargo ship is tended to by cranes and trucks in a commercial terminal. Lights from the port brighten the dimming sky, with mountains and low clouds in the distance.
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Curtailing overconsumption may be the easiest target for reducing the societal and environmental impacts of climate change.

UCSB professor tapped to co-author the seventh IPCC assessment report on climate change mitigation
molecules in blue
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Designing better catalysts for cleaner, more efficient chemistry
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