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Breaking new ground in algorithmic theory
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Experts to discuss repatriation, religion and law
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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
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
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Still the best: UCSB voted Santa Barbara’s No. 1 place to work
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Poet Robert Krut on the oblivion between tectonic plates
Ruins of an ancient temple beneath a blue sky and clouds
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Tikal, in Guatemala, is among the major sites of the Classic Mayan civilization.

Why Classic Maya cities rose and fell
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Jeff Liang

New UCSB biofoundry to accelerate discoveries in biotechnology and biomanufacturing
exhibition with large sculpture
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Moe Wakai
Kim Garcia, "What you can never fully hold," 2025

How artistic research preserves cultural memory and care
modern dancers with arms and legs intertwined
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Fritz Olenberger
UCSB's Santa Barbara Dance Theater

Santa Barbara Dance Theater’s FORUM explores connection and collaboration
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Fareed Zakaria makes sense of a changing world in Arts & Lectures talk
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Bren Environmental Leadership fellows Caroline Smith (left) and Halia Fleming in Morro Bay, CA

Bren School leadership program highlights mentorship and student research
A forest sits atop an eroding bluff.
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Anna Trugman researches how plants respond to climate change, while Gen Li studies erosion and weathering — the natural processes that break down rocks and transport sediment.

Two UCSB professors recognized for contributions to the Earth sciences
Alexis Okeowo
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Alexis Okeowo

Writer Alexis Okeowo opens Arts & Lectures’ Justice for All series
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Detail, book cover for "Unfaithful: A Translator's Memoir" by Suzanne Jill Levine, Bloomsbury, 2025

New memoir explores the art of translation and Latin American literature
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UCSB scholar to lead world’s largest actuarial society
A government official inspects dozens of large fish on the concrete after seizing illegal gillnets (in background) in the Gulf of California.
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Totoaba poaching continues in the Gulf of California despite a 50-year fishing ban. But farming the fish for export may curb poaching.

Farmed totoaba could curb poaching
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Ingrid Bostrom
Installation view of "Joan Mitchell 100," on view at the Art, Design & Architecture Museum, UC Santa Barbara

Joan Mitchell at 100: UCSB spotlights a modern master
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Illustration Niklas Elmehed © Nobel Prize Outreach
UCSB physics professors John Martinis, left, and Michel Devoret

UCSB physics professors John Martinis and Michel Devoret win 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics
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Talk on California’s wildfire crisis kicks off IHC public series
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