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![Historian Kate McDonald](/sites/default/files/styles/large_2340x1212/public/2023-09/kate-mcdonald-uc-santa-barbara.jpg?itok=iACWzCfc)
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Matt Perko
Historian Kate McDonald, August 2023
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![Two opposing heads with winged and horned brain and tailed and haloed brain.](/sites/default/files/styles/large_2340x1212/public/2023-09/Moral-mind-istock.jpg?itok=IZKC611M)
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kovalto1 via iStock
Moral reasoning creates distinct patterns of activity in the brain.
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![Emily Jacobs seated, looking upward, seated in front of a backdrop of brain imagery](/sites/default/files/styles/large_2340x1212/public/2023-09/emily-jacobs-hero.jpg?itok=RLAMBTFD)
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Matt Perko
Emily Jacobs’ lab primarily examines how hormones affect the brain
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![a student presents research findings](/sites/default/files/styles/large_2340x1212/public/2023-08/CSEP-colloquium-uc-santa-barbara-small.jpg?itok=yPhyDOwf)
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Andrew Masuda
UC Santa Barbara chemical engineering major Jessy Gonzalez explains his summer research project during a poster session sponsored by the Center for Science and Engineering Partnerships (CSEP).
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![concept of a quantum magnetometer](/sites/default/files/styles/large_2340x1212/public/2023-08/chip-scale-quantum-magnetometer-long-uc-santa-barbara_0.jpg?itok=HzCyvfSx)
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Brian Long
A quantum magnetometer on a chip
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![Photo illustration of a floating human brain](/sites/default/files/styles/large_2340x1212/public/2023-08/brain-cloud-uc-santa-barbara.jpg?itok=ifzRlhsr)
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Matt Perko
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![Student filmmakers Alessandra Puig-Santana and Tess McCormick](/sites/default/files/styles/large_2340x1212/public/2023-08/coastal-media-project2.jpg?itok=hgYV0JH9)
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Ian Kellett
Student filmmakers Alessandra Puig-Santana (left) and Tess McCormick on Santa Cruz Island
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![Bolivian tribe receiving health education regarding COVID-19](/sites/default/files/styles/large_2340x1212/public/2023-08/COVID-health-education-gurven-uc-santa-barbara-small.jpg?itok=2HMq_XRn)
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Michael Gurven
A health educator conveys information about COVID-19 transmission to members of Bolivia's Tsimané population
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![The Naked Shakes theater company in full dress for "The Death of Kings"](/sites/default/files/styles/large_2340x1212/public/2023-08/death-of-kings2-uc-santa-barbara.jpg?itok=9eDIgrEX)
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Jeff Liang
"The Death of Kings" will play for three nights on campus before traveling to the Verona Shakespeare Fringe Festival