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The Amplify Festival brings together veteran and emerging artists to workshop news plays and present public readings.
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Photo illustration by Matt Perko
Carnegie Fellow Christopher Parker, a UCSB political science professor, researches how polarization affects communities of color.
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A still from UCSB student Travers Tobis's short film "The Circus Monkey," nominated for a Student Emmy Award.
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Jeff Liang
Grad Slam champion Kirsten Rollins, April 3, 2025
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Fruit fly larvae will reorient themselves toward the negative pole of an electric field.
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Nori Muster was a devotee of the Hare Krishna movement of the 1970s and 1980s
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The non-native black rat was the only small mammal infected with Hantavirus in an immensely biodiverse region of Madagascar. Animals trapped in agricultural fields carried the disease more often than those trapped in homes or in the rainforest.
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Matt Perko
The sum total of our daily communication comprises our “social biomes.”
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Matt Perko
Jane Ward is a professor and chair of UCSB's Department of Feminist Studies