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Early Academic Outreach Program is ‘Planting Dreams’ at UC Santa Barbara
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Percival Everett, author of "James" (Doubleday 2024)

‘James’ author Percival Everett discusses reimagining ‘Huckleberry Finn’ and Black narratives with UCSB’s Stephanie Batiste
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Matt Perko

UCSB’s cybersecurity chief on protecting digital spaces and the role of AI
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Hương Ngô, detail, "Bestouan 5/12/18"

Generational memory and labor, Southeast Asian refugee experience, in new Hương Ngô exhibition
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UC Santa Barbara again named ‘Best Place to Work’
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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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Researchers model airbursts, a common yet little-understood cosmic impact process
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UCSB, Community Environmental Council to hold Living with Fire Summit
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UC Santa Barbara ranks among top universities nationally and globally in recent assessments
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Chris Jenkins filming in South Sudan

Film & media studies instructor awarded Alex Trebek Legacy Fellowship
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Elena Zhukova
Exercising with battle ropes is a popular high-intensity interval training (HIIT) workout

Bursts of exercise boost cognitive function, UCSB neuroscientists find
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Matt Perko

Promoting Latiné excellence: A Q&A with inaugural HSI director Veronica Fematt
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Capps Center fall lineup: queer nuns, election-year politics and Latinx environmentalism
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Matt Perko
The scanning ultrafast electron microscope in the Bolin Liao lab

Researchers create the first ever visualization of photoexcited charges traveling across the interface of two semiconductor materials
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The Promise Fellowship Program supports graduate first-gen students from low-income households
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Celesta Billeci and Wynton Marsalis

A&L director awarded for leadership in the arts
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Jane Callister, from the series ”Imaginary Film Stills from a Movie that Never Existed”

Exploring the connection between memory and film through art
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Denise Montell

Professor Denise Montell wins second NIH Pioneer Award, receiving $5.5 million for immune therapy research
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