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Matt Perko
Wenfei Xu, an assistant professor of geography at UC Santa Barbara, coauthored the study "New Deal mortgage programmes benefited white borrowers disproportionately" in the journal Nature.

Exclusionary federal mortgage lending widened racial wealth gap in the US

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The Physics of Clouds

Interdependence Explained
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A Supernova Quadrupled

Strength in Numbers
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Women in Business

The Mummified Monk
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A Perfect Storm
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Gateway to Freedom

The Body’s Transformers

Ecologist Honored by Sloan Foundation

Understanding Adaptive Capacity

Lydia Davis in Residence at UCSB
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