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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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Fukushima Revisited

Chemistry Professor Receives the 2014 Spiers Memorial Award
Helen Morales

Pilgrimage to Dollywood

Professor Receives Geographic Information Science Research Award

Joseph Polchinski Named 59th Annual Faculty Research Lecturer

UC Santa Barbara Places Among Top 10 on Leiden Ranking of 750 Major Universities in the World
Harold Marcuse

'A Brutal Life That Lasted Years and Years'

Author and Historian Gerald Horne to Deliver the Shirley Kennedy Memorial Lecture

Future Effects
Irina Vladi Wender

'We Inherit the Trauma and It Shapes Us'

Declines in Large Wildlife Lead to Increases in Disease Risk

English Professor Awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship
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