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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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Critical Issues in America Series to Examine Speculative Futures

Director of UCSB Writing Program Invited to White House

Scientists Reveal How Natural Gas and Temperature Controlled Bacterial Response to Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

Computer Science and Film and Media Studies Professors Receive NSF Grant to Bring Wireless Technology to Rural Africa

White House Announces that Two UCSB Faculty Members Will Receive U.S. Presidential Science Awards

Threat of Stereotyping Contributes to Mind-Wandering, UCSB Researcher Finds

UCSB Associate Professor to Receive Prestigious NIH New Innovator Award

UCSB Develops Breakthrough Technology in Identification of Prostate Cancer Cells

UCSB Scientist Contributes to First Discovery of a Planet With Two ‘Suns'

Hitchhiking Snails Fly From Ocean to Ocean

Researchers Analyze the Evolving Human Relationship with Fire

New Book by UCSB Earth Science and Environmental Studies Professor Explores the Natural History of Santa Barbara
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