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Recent UCSB graduates Matthieu Huy and Enri Lala were selected from 3,400 applicants for a fully funded year of graduate study in France.
Two UC Santa Barbara graduates receive inaugural Lafayette Fellowship
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Jeff Liang
Grad Slam champion Kirsten Rollins, April 3, 2025
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Fruit fly larvae will reorient themselves toward the negative pole of an electric field.
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Nori Muster was a devotee of the Hare Krishna movement of the 1970s and 1980s
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The non-native black rat was the only small mammal infected with Hantavirus in an immensely biodiverse region of Madagascar. Animals trapped in agricultural fields carried the disease more often than those trapped in homes or in the rainforest.
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Matt Perko
The sum total of our daily communication comprises our “social biomes.”
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Jane Ward is a professor and chair of UCSB's Department of Feminist Studies
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Left to right: Leda Cosmides, Adina Roskies, Rachel Segalman
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Jeff Liang
Professor Sameer Pandya at UC Santa Barbara's Harder Stadium
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Ethan Turpin & Naomi Tague
"Tree Water," detail, 2024
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Untold amounts of toxic waste were carelessly, though legally, disposed of off the California coast. Their presence continues to haunt human and wildlife health.