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Candice Lyons
Solaire Denaud, 2025 Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellow
PhD candidate Solaire Denaud receives prestigious humanities and social science fellowship
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Lyn Photography
Physicist and computer science assistant professor Murphy Yuezhen Niu
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Debra Herrick
Meiya Sidney '25, College of Creative Studies and art honors
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Luca Meyers
A play about young women on the cusp of their teenage years, “Dance Nation” portrays their conflicting impulses to stand out and blend in.
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Matt Perko
“You can think of this as the next step in personal computing,” said UCSB professor Jennifer Jacobs, whose research explores more intuitive, responsive digital fabrication systems.
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De novo protein design involves sequencing amino acids to produce proteins with the desired structures and functions
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Rose Schlossberg, "Comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinstan-ATLAS," 2024
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Yaoinlove via iStock
Children are more sensitive to heat than adults, and chronic overheating can affect their experience and engagement at school.
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Photo illustration by Matt Perko with abstract visuals by Iason Paterakis and Nefeli Manoudaki; Original photo by SCARECROW artworks, Unsplash
AI-generated visuals designed by UCSB researchers help ease the psychological toll of isolation for scientists living and working in Antarctica.
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Melody Jue
A scuba diver pictured with a colony of soft corals in Fiji, 2020