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Four adults in farmers clothes, their faces lit, look up at a foreboding figure in a mask
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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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Understanding aging on a cellular level
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Mario T. García: A lifetime of achievement in Chicano/a history
a barnacle in a jar
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Sonia Fernandez
Sessile creatures like this barnacle were the key to determining when the oil pipeline was compromised, an event that eventually led to the oil spill

How Marine Science Institute researchers helped solve the 2021 Huntington Beach oil spill
eye with circuitry blue tint

AI learns to pay covert attention
concept illustration of an active nematic fluid

Controlling the chaos of active fluids
photograph of Brenda Major
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Matt Perko
Brenda Major, May 2024

Brenda Major elected to National Academy of Sciences
the organizers of the art show, mentors and faculty advisors
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Photos by Hannah Frogge and Andrew Dang
Clockwise from top left: Kristine Joy Chua, Amy Boddy, Hannah Frogge, Kim Yasuda, Anastasia Senavsky and Emilie Risha

‘Originalia’ art show celebrates the human reproductive system
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Breaking boundaries: UCSB grad students win prestigious Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship
Three costumed actors - two men and one women - on a darkened stage
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Jeff Liang
“Indecent” tells the story of the 1906 play, “God of Vengeance,” by Sholem Asch.

A dreamlike history play that resonates today
cars driving up State Street

The state of State
Headshot of Sabrina Strings a Black woman with yellow shirt and drop earings
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Black Studies Professor Sabrina Strings

How the romantic institution props-up a racialized dating landscape
portrait in black and white of possibly Asian American woman with red dots in background
Chiho Harazaki, Shippo, detail, 2023

‘Positive Exposure: SoCal Asian American Art' exhibit features UCSB grad student and alumni artists
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