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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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UCSB Historian to Give Faculty Research Lecture on the Use of Atomic Bombs and Lessons of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

The Rise of Conservatism

New Book by UCSB Environmental Studies Scholar Examines the Gulf Oil Spill and U.S. Energy Policies

UCSB Scientists Document How Fishing on Coral Reefs Can Alter Ecosystems

Frontal Lobe of the Brain is Key to Automatic Responses to Various Stimuli, Say Scientists

UCSB Scientists Discover Inner Workings of Potent Cancer Drug; Findings May Help Patients with Advanced Breast Cancer
Jimmy Santiago Baca

Author and Poet Jimmy Santiago Baca to Receive Luis Leal Literature Award

UCSB To Receive $6 Million Renewal Grant to Fund Center for Nanotechnology in Society

UCSB Researchers Show How Herbivores Influence Plant Diversity

Research by UCSB Scholar Questions Accuracy of Maya Calendar Correlation, 2012 Prophecy, and Other Historical Dates

UC Santa Barbara Astrophysicist Lars Bildsten Appointed to Endowed Chair at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics

UCSB Scientists' Innovative Use of Videos Aids Study of Songbird Communication
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