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“Particle physics isn’t dead,” reads the blackboard behind an expressive physicist presenting to a packed audience.
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Although the LHC only discovered one new particle, “particle physics isn’t dead,” physicist Nima Arkani-Hamed exclaims in the program’s packed final talk.

Physicists gather to chart a path for the next kind of particle collider
Alexa Bertola in a CalTrans hard hat inset in a circle above Henley Gate, UC Santa Barbara

Caltrans representative answers questions about the impending construction project on Highway 217
Professor Umesh Mishra sitting on stairs
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Professor Umesh Mishra

A new leader: Professor Umesh Mishra to become dean of engineering
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A University of California multi-campus initiative strives to boost diversity within its STEM teaching faculty ranks
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Climate Forward: UC Santa Barbara receives $1 million to develop climate action capacity
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Graduate Scholars Program builds sense of community and connection for graduate students
Argentinian glacier as seen from ISS
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Argentina's Perito Moreno Glacier as seen from the International Space Station

New NASA-funded research will build next-gen tech to better measure climate
Headshot of Jeffrey Milem
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Jeffrey Milem

Gevirtz School Dean Jeffrey Milem elected to prestigious National Academy of Education
A sewing machine against a black background.
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Matt Perko
Simply seeing a machine might not convey what it does.

Filming Proteins in Motion: Physics researchers inch closer to an ambitious goal
Installation views of Sandy Rodriguez — Unfolding Histories: 200 Years of Resistance
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Ruben Diaz
Installation views of Sandy Rodriguez — Unfolding Histories: 200 Years of Resistance

Artist Sandy Rodriguez illuminates forgotten pasts of the Central Coast
A man on his smartphone is distracted from his family.
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Study finds parents’ phone use in front of their kids can harm emotional intelligence
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Ruminants such as cows, sheep and goats host anaerobic gut fungi that can break down tough cell walls

Researchers prove that tough, woody lignin can be broken down in an anaerobic environment
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Records from Platform Holly provide a glimpse of how petroleum production affects natural gas seeps
Geoff Meyerhof presents at UCSB Grad Slam 2022
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Jeff Liang
Geoff Meyerhof presents his winning talk at the finale of UCSB Grad Slam 2022

UC-systemwide graduate student showcase started at UCSB reaches a milestone anniversary
Female dancers in costume circled in motion on a darkened stage
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Stephen Sherrill

UCSB Dance Company explores spectrum of human sensibility through the lens of female choreographers
Cherríe Moraga wearing a black turtleneck and black rimmed glasses
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Cherríe Moraga

UC Santa Barbara’s Cherríe Moraga to receive the 18th annual Luis Leal Award
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Carlos G. Levi and Thuc-quyen Nguyen

Professors Thuc-Quyen Nguyen and Carlos G. Levi are elected to the National Academy of Engineering
Professor Kathleen Moore
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Professor Kathleen Moore, February 2023

UC Santa Barbara receives federal grant to create humanities-based minors
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From "Phantom Waves" by George Legrady

George Legrady's Phantom Waves, new algorithmic art
A family, made up of a couple and their three children, in the Amazon stands together smiling.
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The Tsimane are an indigenous population in the Bolivian Amazon

Researchers uncover natural selection for traits associated with immunity and metabolism in Tsimane and Moseten genomes
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