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![Diverse group of students listening to a lecture in a modern lecture hall](/sites/default/files/styles/large_2340x1212/public/2023-11/students-lecture-interactive-learning-pavilion-hero-uc-santa-barbara.jpg?itok=eMC_-HqS)
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Elena Zhukova
UC Santa Barbara students attend a lecture in the Interactive Learning Pavilion
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![A pyramid of concept cards underpins a basilica on a laptop screen. Behind the computer is a more abstract pyramid of concepts floating above the desk.](/sites/default/files/styles/large_2340x1212/public/2023-10/AI-art-Fabian-Offert.jpg?itok=Of1Li0xK)
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An illustration by Midjourney with the prompt: “A computer with clouds of equations and symbols.”
What an artificial intelligence displays on the screen reflects its internal representation of the world, which may be quite different than our own.
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![NSF director at the Engineering Sciences Building](/sites/default/files/styles/large_2340x1212/public/2023-10/UC-Santa-Barbara-perko_ERK7473-web_0.jpg?itok=_MCQApN9)
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Matt Perko
NSF Director Sethuraman Panchanathan speaking at the Engineering Sciences Building
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![UC Santa Barbara Graduate Fellows group photo illustration](/sites/default/files/styles/large_2340x1212/public/2023-10/UC-Santa-Barbara-Graduate-Fellows.jpg?itok=7klJv76h)
Hamzah Baig, Marcell Cadney, Marissa Gionet-Gonzales, Julio Orellana and Tessa Cookmeyer
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![woman walking at labyrinth](/sites/default/files/styles/large_2340x1212/public/2023-10/sporty-labyrinth-uc-santa-barbara.jpg?itok=s3zNVJMg)
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Elena Zhukova
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![Two male dancers perform on a blackened stage](/sites/default/files/styles/large_2340x1212/public/2023-10/sb-dance-theater-hero-uc-santa-barbara.jpg?itok=SC9lOITQ)
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Jeff Liang
A scene from Santa Barbara Dance Theater's 2023 show, “The Ties that Bind/Los lazos que unen.”
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![Giuliana Perrone photographed in black and white outdoors in sunlight](/sites/default/files/styles/large_2340x1212/public/2023-10/uc-santa-barbara-giulinana-perrone.jpg?itok=yys4GmLE)
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Matt Perko
Giuliana Perrone, October 2023
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![The head of a California red-legged frog peers out from lily pads](/sites/default/files/styles/large_2340x1212/public/2023-10/california-red-tailed-frog-uc-santa-barbara.jpg?itok=PApF2X3g)
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Gary M. Fellers/USGS
California red-legged frog (Rana draytonii) surfaces in a pond in Point Reyes National Seashore, Calif.
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![Graham Feyl and Sylvia Faichney](/sites/default/files/styles/large_2340x1212/public/2023-09/Graham-%26-Sylvia-ds-hero-opt.jpg?itok=t-bVctxU)
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Debra Herrick
Graham Feyl and Sylvia Faichney
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![An illustration of a diversity of hands holding cell phones transmitting fake news](/sites/default/files/styles/large_2340x1212/public/2023-10/disinformation-tech-uc-santa-barabara.jpg?itok=7zfqchLs)
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iStock
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![Portrait of Charmaine Chua](/sites/default/files/styles/large_2340x1212/public/2023-10/Charmaine%20Chua-outdoor-closeup.jpg?itok=wJhsEjEp)
Charmaine Chua is a 2023 Freedom Scholar