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researchers working with Senegalese partners
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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

Research and efforts to combat schistosomiasis earn geographer David López-Carr several high-profile awards

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A tall grey tower against a bright blue sky
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Mike Eliason

University names winners of Thomas More Storke Award and other major prizes for 2023 graduates
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Professor Thuc-Quyen Nguyen receives double honors for her work on organic photovoltaics
Anabel Rocha Ambrosio
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Debra Herrick
Anabel Rocha Ambrosio

First-generation graduate Anabel Rocha Ambrosio builds a better life with education as the foundation
Rice terraces at sunset in Japan
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Shining a light on the interconnectedness between societies and the natural world
Ray Adkins portrait
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Debra Herrick

New physics Ph.D. Ray Adkins is bound for Yale, prestigious award in hand, to apply his research to neuroscience
Actress Cate Blanchett, as composer Tar, in the foreground; her face decorated with Indigenous ceremonial markings
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“Cate Blanchett and Ruperto Fasabi.” © David Díaz Gonzales & Olaf Heine 2021 @ Focus Features, Courtesy of Todd Field.
Created by David Díaz Gonzalez, an affiliate of the Indigenous-focused Peruvian arts nonprofit Xapiri Ground, this photo of Cate Blanchett in character as Tár was produced expressly for the film and appears in one scene.

The rich ambiguity of Tár, and why director Todd Field wouldn’t have it any other way
Ted Egan, Christopher Waller, and Peter Rupert
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David Bazemore
2023 South Coast Economic Summit guests (from left) Ted Egan, Christopher Waller and Peter Rupert

‘Keep calm!’ The economy stays steady despite inflation and the impacts of remote work
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Mourning widows helped preserve postwar German art music
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Planetary defense project selected for NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts program
Actors in costume in a promotional shot for Last Days of Judas Iscariot
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Jeff Liang
The theater and dance department will stage a production of Stephen Adly Guirgis’s 2005 play.

A biblical villain goes on trial in the darkly comic “The Last Days of Judas Iscariot”
A whitebark pine growing on the rock overlooking Big Pine Creek in the Eastern Sierra Nevada.
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Joan Dudney
Whitebark pines growing in cold, high elevation regions grew more during droughts, which lengthened their growing season.

How a drought affects trees depends on what’s been holding them back
An envelope addressed to UCSB's Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, from Corcoran State Prison
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With a California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Grant, Foundations in the Humanities is funded to run at Corcoran for three years.

Humanities program brings courses in literary studies to individuals in the California state prison system
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