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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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UC Santa Barbara's Art, Design & Architecture Museum Announces Summer Exhibitions
Cecilia Conaco and Kenneth Kosik

Clues to Nervous System Evolution Found in Nerve-less Sponge
students in class

UC Santa Barbara Archaeology Class Unearths the Original Santa Barbara

UCSB Scientists Synthesize First Genetically Evolved Semiconductor Material

Study by UC Santa Barbara Psychologists Reveals How Brain Performs ‘Motor Chunking' Tasks

History and Environmental Studies Scholar Receives Harold J. Plous Award

Study Jointly Led by UCSB Researcher Finds New Evidence Supporting Theory of Extraterrestrial Impact
Michael Gurven, Steven Gaulin, and Melanie Martin

Study by UCSB Anthropologists Finds High Levels of Omega-3 Fatty Acids in Breast Milk of Amerindian Women as Compared to U.S. Women

Protein Knots Gain New Evolutionary Significance

New Book by UCSB Religious Studies Scholar Examines Secularism, Religion, and How People Decide What Matters
Professors Joel Rothman (left) and Boris Shraiman

UC Santa Barbara's Kavli Institute Receives Two Grants to Explore Interface of Physics and Biology

Michael Douglas Donates $500,000 to UC Santa Barbara to Endow Dean's Chair
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