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Jeff Liang

California prepares to accelerate quantum research and industry

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a group of Tanzanian men gather around a table and speak with a researcher
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David W. Lawson
A focus group of young men in Tanzania, led by project co-investigator Alexander Ishungisa (standing) and social scientist Elisha Mabula. (Photograph shared with participant consent.)

On gender: misperceptions about others can stifle women’s empowerment

Physicists work toward theory to describe pattern formation in conserved fields
Pedestrians in IR walk along a cobblestone street.
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It’s not quite heat vision, but mosquitoes do use thermal infrared to find human hosts.

Mosquitoes sense infrared from body heat to help track humans down
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UCSB geographer receives NSF grant to study adaptations to land degradation and ‘bright spots’ of resilience
two men standing against a gray background
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Jeff Liang
Professors Andrew Jayich, left, and Jon Schuller

Two UCSB professors selected by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation to be Experimental Physics Investigators
a small group of student filmmakers gather footage on Santa Cruz island
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Ian Kellett
Student filmmakers (foreground, from left) Ryan Grant, Jade Ipina and Catherine Scanlon filming the sunset on Santa Cruz Island.

Coastal Media Project screens environmental documentaries at Pollock Theater
Black female news anchor on tube television set.
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Marilyn F. Solomon hosts her weekly prime-time program “News in Review,” 1981.

Marilyn F. Solomon’s television archives join UCSB Library’s film & television collection
A group of undergraduate volunteers pose in front of the chemistry building at UC Santa Barbara.
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SciTrek founder Norbert Reich (center back) poses with some of the over 280 undergraduate volunteers who make the program possible.

SciTrek, UCSB’s largest education outreach program, garners new funding to expand
An illustration of macrophages attacking a cancer cell.
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Priming macrophage immune cells could supercharge certain cancer therapies.

An appetizer can stimulate immune cells’ appetite, a boon for cancer treatments
Sandinistos getting off a helicopter
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Helicopter-borne units of an FSLN counterinsurgency battalion landing in the middle of the tropical forest.

Study of Nicaragua’s Sandinistas argues for multilevel analysis of civil war violence
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Theater scholar’s culminating work unpacks masterpiece of the American stage
A stack of blocks with the rare earth element symbols on them.
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Scientists and engineers would love if separating rare earth elements were as easy as picking one out of a stack of blocks.

A cleaner, more efficient way to process and recycle rare earth elements
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