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Planetary defense project selected for NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts program
Actors in costume in a promotional shot for Last Days of Judas Iscariot
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Jeff Liang
The theater and dance department will stage a production of Stephen Adly Guirgis’s 2005 play.

A biblical villain goes on trial in the darkly comic “The Last Days of Judas Iscariot”
Social Sciences and Media Studies Building
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Building on their vision — and their legacy — alumni Louise and Stephen Pahl gift the campus $10.5 million for social sciences research in the interest of change
A whitebark pine growing on the rock overlooking Big Pine Creek in the Eastern Sierra Nevada.
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Joan Dudney
Whitebark pines growing in cold, high elevation regions grew more during droughts, which lengthened their growing season.

How a drought affects trees depends on what’s been holding them back
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Engaging families early to demystify the college preparation process
An envelope addressed to UCSB's Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, from Corcoran State Prison
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With a California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Grant, Foundations in the Humanities is funded to run at Corcoran for three years.

Humanities program brings courses in literary studies to individuals in the California state prison system
A pumpjack nestled between trees and luxury homes.
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California currently has no setback restrictions, so oil production can occur in the middle of neighborhoods like Signal Hill, in Los Angeles.

Keeping California’s oil in the ground will improve health but affect jobs
Anthropology associate professor David Lawson
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Jeff Liang
Associate Professor David W. Lawson, May 2023

New collection of articles unpacks the importance of culture in the evolution of gendered conflict
A hand hovering over a match
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Matt Perko
Our perception of pain arises from a complex system connected to many other pathways.

A channel involved in pain sensation can also suppress it
A homebuilder on a housing job site
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Pahl Initiative symposium on affordable housing convenes scholarship, politics and journalism
Stop Asian Hate fortune cookie street art
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Michelle Bell
Michelle Bell, Chinatown Live

Asian American studies launches interdisciplinary Ph.D. emphasis
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Anti-Defamation League CEO will discuss the current state of hate in the US
concept illustration of genetic material cut from a DNA helix

Researchers discover a way to improve nonviral gene editing as well as a new type of DNA repair
Headshots of Benjamin Brecher and Samuel Mungo bookend vintage image of an opera playbill cover
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Benjamin Brecher, far left, and Samuel Mungo, far right, co-created the version of Gustave Kerker's opera "Burning to Sing" for UC Santa Barbara's music department.

A relative of sorts of Schmigadoon, an opera pokes fun at opera
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East Asia Center lecture will feature expert on US-China relations
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Doctoral candidate Amelia Ritger receives award for women researchers
Chris Erdman
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Chris Erdman is a recipient of the American Academy in Rome fellowship for 2024–25.

A residency in Rome to uncover the Eternal City’s ancient voting culture
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Tresa Pollock is the first woman to win the prestigious Acta Materialia Gold Medal for metallurgists
Coastline at Santa Cruz Island

Ocean Solutions
A woman seen from behind standing a window that opens to a brick wall
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The piece "Hope," by an anonymous artist, is part of the exhibition "Woman. Life. Freedom."

A gesture of solidarity, by way of art, with the struggle for Iranian women’s rights
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