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McLean Echlin
The prototype of UCSB's TriBeam microscope, developed by the Tresa Pollock Lab before it was commercialized by Thermo Fisher Scientific

Scientific research soars with NSF’s Major Research Instrumentation program
California Sea Otters grooming themselves in the Elkhorn Slough at Moss Landing.
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Htrnr via iStock
Although sea otters only recently recolonized their historic habitat in the Elkhorn Sough, they’re already benefiting the ecosystem.

Sea otters stabilize salt marsh banks as they recolonize a Californian estuary
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Showing high school students how education, leadership and careers intertwine
Amber hills roll away behind a lone oak tree, with facilities in the background.
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Matt Perko
The rolling hills of Sedgwick Reserve offer a testbed for researchers to probe grassland ecology.

Extreme drought hits grasslands and shrublands harder than anticipated
a black stone arrow point

How a prehistoric cosmic airburst is assisting archaeologists today
kristen thomas-mcgill white woman with glasses on blue stage
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Jeopardy Productions, Inc.
History doctoral candidate Kristen Thomas-McGill on Jeopardy

Jeopardy winner and doctoral candidate Kristen Thomas-McGill examines the history of child sexual abuse, celebrity and public memory
A person walks past a Vote Here sign in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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Lorie Shaull via Wikimedia
Climate concerns likely gave Democrats the White House in 2020

US voters’ climate change opinions swing elections
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UCSB Writing Program names inaugural M. Garren Tinney fellows

Global groundwater depletion is accelerating, but is not inevitable
dancer in black and white striped dress
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Photo by Walter E. Owen. Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
Janet Collins in "Chain Gang," 1949.

The exiles who shaped the contours of modern dance
Portrait of professor Jody Enders with two books of translated French stage comedies
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Matt Perko
Author and professor Jody Enders, January 2024

Jody Enders’s ‘uncomfortably entertaining’ naughty French comedies nab prize for translation
The 14 members of the Biopacific Group pose outside Elings Hall
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The NSF BioPACIFIC MIP group.

BioPACIFIC MIP unites two UC campuses to advance a new model for materials research
A teenager and an adult sitting in chairs, facing one another, in serious conversation
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iStock / SeventyFour

UCSB partners with local schools to support students facing trauma
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Visiting law scholar to discuss race at the Supreme Court
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National Academy of Inventors recognizes Professor Thuc-Quyen Nguyen
Jean Beaman head shot
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Matt Perko
Jean Beaman, associate professor of sociology

Black Lives Matter in France – Ethnographer Jean Beaman reads transnational connections for Black liberation
Dancers from Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo posed in red dresses
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Courtesy photo
Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo is celebrating their 50th anniversary season

Keep on ‘Trockin’’ in the free world
arts and technology at different hemispheres of the brain

NSF-supported collaborative project to connect culture, creativity and technological innovation
A school of hammerhead sharks.
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Masayuki Agawa via OceanImageBank

A global study reveals pathways to save threatened sharks, despite rising mortality trends
A large crescent moon shines in the early twilight over tidal mudflats.
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DALL-E, prompt by Harrison Tasoff.
A soft summer evening in the Paleoproterozoic, as envisioned by DALL-E.

Even the oldest eukaryote fossils show dazzling diversity and complexity
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