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two ucsb students and the manager of the campus bike shop with a pile of old bike tires
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Matt Perko
Environmental studies undergrads Sophia Long (left) and Virginia Such with A.S. Bike Shop Manager Adam Jahnke, April 2026

UCSB environmental studies team launches tire recycling program at A.S. Bike Shop

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Design justice scholar Sasha Costanza-Chock to speak at Center for Black Studies Research
a scuba diver floating near a colony of soft corals in Fiji
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Melody Jue
A scuba diver pictured with a colony of soft corals in Fiji, 2020

‘Coralations’ Q&A with author Melody Jue
Joan Dudney with hiking gear in the mountains.
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Joan Dudney studies the impacts of global change on forests to develop science-based management strategies.

Ecologist Joan Dudney studies forest change in a warming world
people in India working on top of large bags of waste
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Dana Kornberg
Workers in India's waste economy

Race and caste capitalism: Who gets access to status and wealth?
A large group of people gathered shoulder to shoulder on a theater stage
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The Amplify Festival brings together veteran and emerging artists to workshop news plays and present public readings.

LAUNCH PAD Amplify Festival pairs student artists with professional playwrights
A set of hands holding up champagne flutes in a cheers at night
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Alcohol marketing ushered in a golden age of drinking in America
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Giovanni Batz wins book prize for 'The Fourth Invasion'
Christopher Parker, Black man with yellow background and abstract effect
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Carnegie Fellow Christopher Parker, a UCSB political science professor, researches how polarization affects communities of color.

Political scientist Christopher Parker named a Carnegie Fellow
woman on stage with cello and composer
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A still from UCSB student Travers Tobis's short film "The Circus Monkey," nominated for a Student Emmy Award.

Student Emmy nomination goes to UCSB team for 'The Circus Monkey'
grad student Kirsten Rollins on stage giving her Grad Slam presentation
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Jeff Liang
Grad Slam champion Kirsten Rollins, April 3, 2025

Promising cancer research earns top honors at 2025 Grad Slam
A fruit fly larva with imagined electric field lines in the background.
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Fruit fly larvae will reorient themselves toward the negative pole of an electric field.

Scientists discover that fruit fly larvae can sense electric fields
A women sitting in a red vinyl booth inside a diner
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Nori Muster was a devotee of the Hare Krishna movement of the 1970s and 1980s

Seeking inner peace, finding moral rot
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