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Matt Perko
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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Female-specific iridescent stripes in the skin of the common market squid

True Colors: Female Squid Have Two Ways to Switch Color
A fly consumes camphor-containing ice cream.

For Fruit Flies, Food Experience Can Alter Taste Preferences
fMRI connectivity results

Research Reveals Brain Connections Underlying Accurate Introspection
2013 Global Scores for the Ocean Health Index

2013 Ocean Health Index Shows Food Provision Is an Area of Great Concern

NCEAS Documents Intangible Effects of Nature on Well-Being

UCSB Anthropologist Studies the Evolutionary Benefit of Human Personality Traits
Tim O’Brien

Vietnam Veteran and Award-Winning Author Tim O'Brien to Speak at UCSB

Daniel Mendelsohn: “Cavafy at the Margins: Geography, History, Desire”

‘Free Angela And All Political Prisoners’ Screens at UC Santa Barbara

UC Santa Barbara to Host the Third Central Coast Sustainability Summit on October 23

New Grant Supports Research on Infectious Disease Transmission

Historian to Discuss the Cultural Evolution of Beer in the United States
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