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Professor Bishnupriya Ghosh
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Matt Perko
Professor Bishnupriya Ghosh, September 2023

From HIV-AIDS to COVID-19, scholar Bishnupriya Ghosh unpacks decades of research to better understand the complexities of living with viruses
A woman singing in a production still from 'Nashville'
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Revisiting ‘Nashville,’ Robert Altman’s poetic — and still relevant — masterpiece
fishers just off a Pacific island shore
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Jacob Eurich
Fishers coming home on a paddle canoe after fishing on the fore reefs of Abaiang, Kiribati

Researchers build and test a framework for achieving climate resilience across diverse fisheries
Utility worker in an orange vest and hardhat stands in grass at a wind farm
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iStock / Vanessa Nunes

Wind energy projects in North America are more likely to be opposed by white, wealthy communities
Antonio Cortijo Ocaña dramatically lit in the Santa Barbara Courthouse mural room
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Debra Herrick
Antonio Cortijo Ocaña

What book inventories reveal about shifting cultural identities in New Spain
Writer Cherríe Moraga in 1982
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Barbara Adams
Writer Cherríe Moraga, 1982

Honoring her work to elevate issues of gender, sexuality and race, Cherríe Moraga’s seminal lesbian and Chicana text is expanded and re-released
Portrait of Kenneth Kosik
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Matt Perko
Kenneth S. Kosik

A peek inside the quickening race to understand, treat — and even cure — Alzheimer’s disease
Rows of bikes are seen in the foreground, with palm trees and a modern building in the back
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Elena Zhukova

From impact to academics to outcomes, UC Santa Barbara ranks among the nation’s top universities
facade of building

The Materials Research Laboratory receives a six-year, $18 million grant from NSF
Silvia Rodriguez Vega and book cover with children's drawing

Children’s drawings illustrate the hurt imparted by policies of family separation 
Mostofi Lab’s latest research makes significant progress in imaging still objects with WiFi, by exploiting the interaction of the edges with the incoming waves using the Geometrical Theory of Diffraction (GTD). This further enables the first demonstration of WiFi reading through walls.

Wifi can read through walls
Historian Kate McDonald
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Matt Perko
Historian Kate McDonald, August 2023

From rickshaw to railroad, a scholar navigates Japan’s history of transportation
concept of laser-based quantum optical system

Experimental physicist David Weld to investigate the role of feedback and measurement in quantum systems
Two opposing heads with winged and horned brain and tailed and haloed brain.
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Moral reasoning creates distinct patterns of activity in the brain.

Moral reasoning displays characteristic patterns in the brain, with distinctions between moral categories
Emily Jacobs seated, looking upward, seated in front of a backdrop of brain imagery
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Matt Perko
Emily Jacobs’ lab primarily examines how hormones affect the brain

The current landscape of women’s health — and how it might be improved
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Artist residency merges hands-on creativity and cutting-edge science
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Making change, and creating justice, through art
a student presents research findings
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Andrew Masuda
UC Santa Barbara chemical engineering major Jessy Gonzalez explains his summer research project during a poster session sponsored by the Center for Science and Engineering Partnerships (CSEP).

Immersive research experiences translate into an inspiring summer for undergraduate students
concept of a quantum magnetometer
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Brian Long
A quantum magnetometer on a chip

UC Santa Barbara quantum scientists to conduct NSF-funded research to pursue quantum-scale sensor technologies
Photo illustration of a floating human brain
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Matt Perko

When the brain leaves the body, does identity move with it? Depends on who you ask.
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