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Jeff Liang
The allegory that is 'Animal Farm' examines the perils of unchecked power and privilege, the use of words as a political weapon, and revolutions that erode into regimes not unlike those they overthrew.

UCSB theater students take on Orwell’s ‘Animal Farm,’ a fable that still bites

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UC Santa Barbara Geographer Charts the ‘Next-Generation Digital Earth'

UC Santa Barbara Chemistry Professor Wins Award for New, Highly Useful Reagents in Catalysis

New Study Demonstrates the Role of Urban Greenery in CO2 exchange

Film Screening at UCSB's Pollock Theater Celebrates Flying "A" Studio Centennial
Thomas Scheff

UCSB Sociologist Thomas Scheff Receives Constantine Panunzio Award

New Book by Historian Explores Labor Politics and the Conservative Right

New Book by UCSB Global and International Studies Scholar Examines the Politics of Headscarves

UC Santa Barbara's Art, Design & Architecture Museum Announces Summer Exhibitions
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Clues to Nervous System Evolution Found in Nerve-less Sponge
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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
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