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a family of East African nomadic pastoralists
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The Turkana are nomadic pastoralists who live in Kenya

Genetic adaptations helped East African nomadic pastoralists adapt to constant water stress, but urbanization may present an 'evolutionary mismatch'

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an African American man at a computer while holding a medicine bottle

Better access to technology can help African Americans bridge the healthcare gap
color photograph of two students with newly arrived recycling bins on campus
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Jake Hereen
Kaili Mikami (left) and Lauren Buyalos with an early shipment of reuse and recycling bins for their FLOW project

Environmental leadership program launches lab plastics reuse and recycling
artists' rendering of a sun and its planet-forming disk
Artist's rendering of a young star surrounded by its protoplanetary disk, with elements furnished by NASA's Hubble Telescope

Some young suns are aligned with their planet-forming disks, others are born tilted
Fall colors fade into the distance in the rolling terrain of the Ozark Mountains.
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Benjamin Klinger via iStock

For nature-based climate solutions to work, they must be restructured
a black bird on a patio chair
A great-tailed grackle on a patio chair

Both flexibility and persistence make some birds successful in human-made environments
open book with Persian writing and drawing
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Courtesy
Persian poet Saadi Shirazi's 13th-century hand-colored volume.

Rare Iranian treasures, from Qajar era to 1979 Revolution gifted to UCSB Library
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Biochemist Yang Yang becomes UCSB’s first Freeman Hrabowski Scholar
Rare earth element names with suffix “ium.”
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Matt Perko

A simple filter for rare earth elements will ensure a clean domestic supply of these crucial metals
Sara Poot Herrera a woman smiling
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Jeff Liang
UCSB Distinguished Professor Sara Poot Herrera

How to build global community through Mexican literature
woman working at a desktop computer with a sleeping baby on her chest
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iStock

To benefit from the internet, ‘not all screens are created equal’
book cover art of many Asian men coming out of a door down a rainbow
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Top Shelf Productions
Book cover art for “It Rhymes with Takei,” illustrated by Harmony Becker

Star Trek actor George Takei and coming out in 2005
man sneezing in bed

Optogenetic platform illuminates new antiviral strategies
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