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Debra Herrick
Artist and assistant professor Alex Lukas in his studio
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![The cover of “Mighty Bad Land” with Mount Luyendyk in the background.](/sites/default/files/styles/large_2340x1212/public/2023-08/mighty-bad-land-cover-uc-santa-barbara.jpg?itok=Lh2U8OZT)
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Bruce Luyendyk
Peak 1070 — near one of the team’s field camps — was renamed Mount Luyendyk in honor of the author’s contribution to our knowledge of Antarctica.
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Michael Gurven
The Tsimane Health and Life History Project mobile field team, consisting of UCSB anthropologist Michael Gurven, center bottom, and including UCSB undergraduate researcher Tianyu Cao (far right), is composed of several Tsimane anthropologists, a Tsimane health promoter, as well as a Bolivian physician and biochemist.
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Ruben Diaz
Art, Design & Architecture Museum, UC Santa Barbara
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Illustration by Maya Gonzalez
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UCSB geographer David López-Carr, center left, and Stanford University health and environmental scientist Andrea Lund, center right, working with Senegalese partners
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![Inez Beverly Prosser superimposed over a classroom](/sites/default/files/styles/large_2340x1212/public/2023-07/inez-beverly-prosser-uc-santa-barbara.jpg?itok=dGdH0Jy7)
Inez Beverly Prosser is known as the first Black woman psychologist in the United States.
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Karina Johnston
Beach bur, a native plant that helped to form dunes on a section of Santa Monica Beach in Los Angeles
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Lidiia Moor / iStock