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Ingrid Bostrom
Installation view of "Joan Mitchell 100," on view at the Art, Design & Architecture Museum, UC Santa Barbara

Joan Mitchell at 100: UCSB spotlights a modern master
illustration of two scientists
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Illustration Niklas Elmehed © Nobel Prize Outreach
UCSB physics professors John Martinis, left, and Michel Devoret

UCSB physics professors John Martinis and Michel Devoret win 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics
color photograph of a firefighter watching a forest fire
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courtesy

Talk on California’s wildfire crisis kicks off IHC public series
Swirls of light pink behind a dark purple circle
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iStock / rightdx
Radiographic image of breast cancer tumor cells in the mammary ducts.

Novel membrane gel from UCSB offers new tool for breast cancer research
A 3D render of team communication and abstract social network connection symbols with a hand in the background.
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Wirestock via iStock

Advanced mortality modeling earns UCSB team international actuarial prize
A man with shaggy hair and a beard drives a car while looking in the rearview mirror
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Courtesy Warner Bros. Pictures
Leonard DiCaprio stars in Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another,” edited by UCSB alum Andy Jurgensen

“One Battle After Another” editor, alum Andy Jurgensen, to discuss the political thriller on campus
woman in professional attire at laptop with whiteboard
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Matt Perko
UCSB Distinguished Professor Emeritus Brenda Major

Lifetime of research on prejudice and resilience earns Brenda Major national recognition
A hotshot in an orange hardhat, yellow Nomex jacket and sunglasses glances to the right backlit by an inferno engulfing the pines a few dozen yards behind him, with the book cover to the right.
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Jordan Thomas/ Penguin Publishing Group
Centuries of misguided policy, politics and prejudice have primed the land for the unprecedented infernos that wildland firefighters now face every year.

Hotshots, history and the human choices behind megafires
A rendering of the paths of various particles after a collision in a particle accelerator.
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Vchal via iStock
Theorists like Bruno Scheihing-Hitschfeld develop our descriptions of the exotic materials created within particle colliders.

A rewarding dissertation on the strong nuclear force
photo of the the LZ experiment's outer detector
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Matt Kapust/Sanford Underground Research Laboratory
The outer detector of the LZ dark matter experiment

Physicists tighten the net on elusive dark matter
mudslide into ocean
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iStock

Eckart Meiburg receives NSF award to study sediment dynamics behind mudslides and erosion
color photograph of Todd Grappone standing in front of the library
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Matt Perko
University Librarian Todd Grappone

New University Librarian leads from the intersection of learning resources and cutting-edge technology
scientist holds a wafer of chips developed for deployable quantum experiments
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Matt Perko
Professor Daniel Blumenthal's lab develops chip-scale components that can bring the power and precision of quantum science outside of the tightly controlled environment of the lab.

Chip-scale cold atom and trapped ion experiments can unleash the power of quantum science in the field
Adults in blue t-shirts ride bikes through cooridor of adults in blue t-shirt with arms upraised
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Matt Perko

Welcome home, Gauchos
woman in suit
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Jeff Liang
UCSB's Grace Han’s research centers on solar fuels that capture sunlight and convert it into usable heat.

Chemist Grace Han named Moore Inventor Fellow
A log cabin sits amid a pine grove in the late afternoon light.
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Jeff Liang
The Old Valentine Cabin has been hosting visitors to Mammoth for over 100 years.

Historic cabins from the early days of Mammoth now serve scientists and students
Rows of bikes are seen in the foreground, with palm trees and a modern building in the back
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Elena Zhukova

Bicycle safety gets major boost with collaborative new effort led by Associated Students
water color painting of small boats arriving to shore
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Illustration by Ishtar Bäcklund Dakhil for Mona Damluji's “I Want You to Know."

A mother’s poem becomes a book about displacement, resilience
Orange and red colored cells appear three-dimensional against a blue and purple background
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Courtesy Marley Dewey
Fibroblasts secreting matrix-bound nanovesicles

Bioengineer Marley Dewey receives NIH award to study extracellular vesicles that support tissue repair
framed art on gallery wall
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Ingrid Bostrom
Installation view of "Mexican Prints: The Garcia-Correa Collection," on view at the Art, Design & Architecture Museum, UC Santa Barbara, from Sept. 13–Dec. 7, 2025.

Modern Mexican printmaking at UCSB
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