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Iman Djouini, "Limn," hand pulled silkscreen on Rives BFK 19" x 26"
At the 2026 Venice Biennale, Iman Djouini gives language a new form
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Taylor Finlay
Director Leah Bleich brings her first feature to the campus where she got her start in filmmaking.
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Joao Vianna/Getty Images
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Roland Knapp
The Sierra Nevada yellow-legged frog is recovering in Yosemite, a beacon of hope for amphibian conservation.
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Jeff Liang
UC Santa Santa Barbara Department of Theater and Dance is mounting a new production of 1928 play “The Threepenny Opera”
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Stuart Rankin via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0)
The Pineapple Express — an atmospheric river originating in the tropical Pacific — walloped western North America in February 2017. These systems are becoming more frequent at higher latitudes, leaving mid latitudes drier.
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Fangzhou ZhaoI, Van de Walle group
Concept illustration of non-radiative recombination, in which electron-hole interaction at a defect in the atomic structure results in heat, rather than light, being emitted. Jim Speck will use his Vannevar Bush Award to advance understanding of the physics of such interactions.
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Matt Perko
If a male mosquito can’t hear a female, it’s as though she doesn’t exist.
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Image from "Slavery by Another Name" documentary