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a family of East African nomadic pastoralists
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Wiesla-Wikimedia Commons - CC BY-SA 4.0
The Turkana are nomadic pastoralists who live in Kenya

Genetic adaptations helped East African nomadic pastoralists adapt to constant water stress, but urbanization may present an 'evolutionary mismatch'
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Genetic adaptations helped East African nomadic pastoralists adapt to constant water stress, but urbanization may present an 'evolutionary mismatch'
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UCSB joins NSF's National Quantum Virtual Laboratory
Canvas dome inside a museum gallery
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Jeff Liang
Installation view of "Environmental Communications: Big Bang Beat L.A." on view at the Art, Design & Architecture Museum, UC Santa Barbara, from Sept. 13–Dec. 7, 2025

Big Bang Beat L.A.: Environmental Communications and the city as canvas
black and white image of an older person's face
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Michael Gurven reframes aging as evolutionary success
bloody face man holding mask and shovel
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Detail of "Queer Traffic" book cover with art by Lechevirgen Trimegisto

Free trade, moral panic and the politics of belonging
man with beard and watch outside grey concrete building
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UC Santa Barbara materials scientist Omar Saleh

From charged polymers to life-saving innovations
Newton's cradle

Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Experimental Physics Investigators awards to UCSB experimentalists opens the door to new insights and innovations
Headshot of Sherrilyn Ifill
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Sherrilyn Ifill

Civil rights lawyer Sherrilyn Ifill reimagines democracy in talk for UCSB Arts & Lectures
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Beyond the call: UCPD earns leading international accreditation
science illustration
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Illustration by Brian Long
Artist's concept illustration showing a two-dimensional collection of interacting spins in a diamond lattice.

A new dimension for spin qubits in diamond
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Leadership program recruits UCSB students for K-8 tutoring
clean archive with documents
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Matt Perko
UCSB’s repository houses collections for research and storage; access to Native American materials requires tribal permission.

UCSB outlines progress and goals for Native American repatriation
coal plants with smoke
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How to retire coal, smarter and faster
Side by side of two posters featuring a woman in red and text promoting a musical
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Courtesy UCSB Library
The exhibit features a poster, left, for a 1970s Liza Minnelli vehicle originally titled “Shine It On” when it played in San Francisco. By the time it came to New York, it had a new, much bolder poster, and a new name, “The Act,” right.

A history of Broadway musicals, in posters
pumpkin on campus
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Matt Perko

Collaboration across and around campus aims to ensure safe Halloween celebrations
geometric shapes
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iStock

Breaking new ground in algorithmic theory
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Experts to discuss repatriation, religion and law
Headshot of Paul Leonardi next to cover of his book, "Digital Exhaustion."
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Paul Leonardi

In ‘Digital Exhaustion,’ Paul Leonardi shares how to make technology work for you
two researchers on a boat
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Volunteer taxonomist Gustav Pauly from the Florida Museum of Natural History, left and SBC-LTER lab technician Darrin Ambat on a morning dive to retrieve Autonomous Reef Monitoring Structures from the sea floor

Bioblitz reveals hidden biodiversity in the Santa Barbara Channel
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