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James Badham
Yangying Zhu (right), assistant professor in the UCSB Mechanical Engineering Department, receives her award certificate from ARPA-E Program Director Dr. Evelyn Wang at the National Academy of Sciences, in Washington, D.C.

Making desalination more efficient, by way of renewable energy
bald man in green car on fire with arrows chasing
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Wayne McCall
Keith Puccinelli, "Hot Rod Ambush," 2014. Blacklight ink and pen on paper, diptych. Gift of the Estate of Frances Garvin and Keith Julius Puccinelli.

Pooch’s World
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Exploiting atomically thin materials for energy efficient electronics
A globe made out of healthy foods with a stethoscope against a blackboard background.
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Udra via iStock

Billions worldwide consume inadequate levels of micronutrients critical to human health
scientists in lab with crates
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Jeff Liang
UCSB ExFAB staff and senior participants, from left, Oliver Vining, Elaine Kirschke, Jean-Marie Volland, Nathalie Elisabeth, Sherylle Mills Englander, Max Wilson, Michelle O'Malley, Joel Rothman, Niels Volkmann and Carolyn Mills.

UCSB to lead $22M NSF-funded center on exceptional microbes
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Laila Shereen Sakr
VJ Um Amel, "Boys on the Gaza Beach," digital mosaic, 2014

Laila Shereen Sakr’s ‘Arabic Glitch’ explores data, activism and technoculture
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Promise Scholars celebrate graduation

UCSB programs for student parents and low-income scholars win NASH awards
a group of Tanzanian men gather around a table and speak with a researcher
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David W. Lawson
A focus group of young men in Tanzania, led by project co-investigator Alexander Ishungisa (standing) and social scientist Elisha Mabula. (Photograph shared with participant consent.)

On gender: misperceptions about others can stifle women’s empowerment

Physicists work toward theory to describe pattern formation in conserved fields
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Aspiring engineers receive national research fellowships, with significant funding
Pedestrians in IR walk along a cobblestone street.
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Ildar Abulkhanov via iStock
It’s not quite heat vision, but mosquitoes do use thermal infrared to find human hosts.

Mosquitoes sense infrared from body heat to help track humans down
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UCSB geographer receives NSF grant to study adaptations to land degradation and ‘bright spots’ of resilience
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Jeff Liang
Professors Andrew Jayich, left, and Jon Schuller

Two UCSB professors selected by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation to be Experimental Physics Investigators
a small group of student filmmakers gather footage on Santa Cruz island
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Ian Kellett
Student filmmakers (foreground, from left) Ryan Grant, Jade Ipina and Catherine Scanlon filming the sunset on Santa Cruz Island.

Coastal Media Project screens environmental documentaries at Pollock Theater
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Jeff Liang
The UCSB Conference & Hospitality Services team commemorate their golden anniversary; back row, from, left: Phoebe Frisch-Gebhart, David Sanders, Christine Alnakoud, Lauren Weiner and Julie Miller and front row, from left: Angelica Diaz, Whitney Morris and Brian Shively.

Campus never sleeps: UCSB Conference & Hospitality Services celebrates 50 years of summer programming
Black female news anchor on tube television set.
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Marilyn F. Solomon hosts her weekly prime-time program “News in Review,” 1981.

Marilyn F. Solomon’s television archives join UCSB Library’s film & television collection
A group of undergraduate volunteers pose in front of the chemistry building at UC Santa Barbara.
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SciTrek founder Norbert Reich (center back) poses with some of the over 280 undergraduate volunteers who make the program possible.

SciTrek, UCSB’s largest education outreach program, garners new funding to expand
image of developing zebrafish retina
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Rana Amini/Campàs Lab
Microscopy image of a developing zebrafish retina, with cell nuclei (blue) and membranes (yellow) shown

How cell nuclei organize eyes and brain
An illustration of macrophages attacking a cancer cell.
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Wildpixel via iStock
Priming macrophage immune cells could supercharge certain cancer therapies.

An appetizer can stimulate immune cells’ appetite, a boon for cancer treatments
Sandinistos getting off a helicopter
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Wikicommons
Helicopter-borne units of an FSLN counterinsurgency battalion landing in the middle of the tropical forest.

Study of Nicaragua’s Sandinistas argues for multilevel analysis of civil war violence
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