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A sweaty child on a playground.
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Children are more sensitive to heat than adults, and chronic overheating can affect their experience and engagement at school.

Heat exposure in California schools prompts multi-campus research project

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Non-Profit Founded by UCSB Faculty Members Brings Relief to Refugees in Chad

UCSB Scientist Involved in Environmental Mapping of Great Lakes

UCSB Physicists Make Strides in Understanding Quantum Entanglement

Alumni Gift Brings Ballet Hispanico to UC Santa Barbara for Weeklong Residency
Walid Afifi

UCSB Communication Course Studies Effects of Chronic Uncertainty on Undocumented Immigrants
Joseph Incandela delivers his historic presentation to the seminar at CERN on July 4, 2012

UCSB's Joseph Incandela Receives Prestigious International Physics Prize

Lecture on Ocean Health to be Held at UCSB's National Center For Ecological Analysis and Synthesis
Joseph Polchinski

UCSB Physicist Receives International Acclaim for His Work in Theoretical Physics
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