What's Current in

Letters and Science

US map breaking apart
Photo Credit
iStock

Could America break apart? UCSB expert explores the possibility

Read Article

Photo portrait of Gustavo Arellano
Photo Credit
Courtesy of Los Angeles Times
Gustavo Arellano, winner of the 19th annual Luis Leal Award for Distinction in Chicano/Latino Literature

Los Angeles Times columnist Gustavo Arellano to receive Luis Leal Award
lab equipment
Photo Credit
McLean Echlin
The prototype of UCSB's TriBeam microscope, developed by the Tresa Pollock Lab before it was commercialized by Thermo Fisher Scientific

Scientific research soars with NSF’s Major Research Instrumentation program
Amber hills roll away behind a lone oak tree, with facilities in the background.
Photo Credit
Matt Perko
The rolling hills of Sedgwick Reserve offer a testbed for researchers to probe grassland ecology.

Extreme drought hits grasslands and shrublands harder than anticipated
a black stone arrow point

How a prehistoric cosmic airburst is assisting archaeologists today
kristen thomas-mcgill white woman with glasses on blue stage
Photo Credit
Jeopardy Productions, Inc.
History doctoral candidate Kristen Thomas-McGill on Jeopardy

Jeopardy winner and doctoral candidate Kristen Thomas-McGill examines the history of child sexual abuse, celebrity and public memory

Global groundwater depletion is accelerating, but is not inevitable
dancer in black and white striped dress
Photo Credit
Photo by Walter E. Owen. Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
Janet Collins in "Chain Gang," 1949.

The exiles who shaped the contours of modern dance
Portrait of professor Jody Enders with two books of translated French stage comedies
Photo Credit
Matt Perko
Author and professor Jody Enders, January 2024

Jody Enders’s ‘uncomfortably entertaining’ naughty French comedies nab prize for translation
The 14 members of the Biopacific Group pose outside Elings Hall
Photo Credit
Courtesy Photo
The NSF BioPACIFIC MIP group.

BioPACIFIC MIP unites two UC campuses to advance a new model for materials research
In Focus placeholder

National Academy of Inventors recognizes Professor Thuc-Quyen Nguyen
Jean Beaman head shot
Photo Credit
Matt Perko
Jean Beaman, associate professor of sociology

Black Lives Matter in France – Ethnographer Jean Beaman reads transnational connections for Black liberation
A large crescent moon shines in the early twilight over tidal mudflats.
Photo Credit
DALL-E, prompt by Harrison Tasoff.
A soft summer evening in the Paleoproterozoic, as envisioned by DALL-E.

Even the oldest eukaryote fossils show dazzling diversity and complexity
Subscribe to Letters and Science