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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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Parasitologists holding a slide of a larval tapeworm

Dissection of Oarfish Reveals Insights into its Ecology
Favianna Rodriguez-La Justicia No Tiene Fronteras

Artist Favianna Rodriguez Donates Personal Papers to CEMA
Illegal Migrations

Huckleberry Finn Figures Prominently in Study of Illegal Immigration
The Marrying Kind?

Marriage Equality: A Polarizing Issue Even Within LGBT Movement
Bren Hall's solar panels

Cool School in All Shades of Green
The Fierce Urgency of Now

Musical Improvisation as a Tool for Social Change
A Contest of Ideas

Labor, Capital and Political Dysfunction
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Central Coast Sustainability Summit Points the Way to New Projects

Why Do People Haze?

Studying the Evolutionary Benefit of Personality Traits
Carmen — A Gypsy Biography

Carmen — A Mythic Female Figure
Adelie penguins

Ice Sheet Plays Key Role in Regulating and Responding to Earth's Climate
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