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a sandy beach in the Bahamas
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Divina Cox

Citizen science app tracks coastal erosion in the Bahamas

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A forest sits atop an eroding bluff.
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Anna Trugman researches how plants respond to climate change, while Gen Li studies erosion and weathering — the natural processes that break down rocks and transport sediment.

Two UCSB professors recognized for contributions to the Earth sciences
Alexis Okeowo
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Alexis Okeowo

Writer Alexis Okeowo opens Arts & Lectures’ Justice for All series
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Detail, book cover for "Unfaithful: A Translator's Memoir" by Suzanne Jill Levine, Bloomsbury, 2025

New memoir explores the art of translation and Latin American literature
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UCSB scholar to lead world’s largest actuarial society
exhibition
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Ingrid Bostrom
Installation view of "Joan Mitchell 100," on view at the Art, Design & Architecture Museum, UC Santa Barbara

Joan Mitchell at 100: UCSB spotlights a modern master
illustration of two scientists
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Illustration Niklas Elmehed © Nobel Prize Outreach
UCSB physics professors John Martinis, left, and Michel Devoret

UCSB physics professors John Martinis and Michel Devoret win 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics
color photograph of a firefighter watching a forest fire
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Talk on California’s wildfire crisis kicks off IHC public series
Swirls of light pink behind a dark purple circle
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Radiographic image of breast cancer tumor cells in the mammary ducts.

Novel membrane gel from UCSB offers new tool for breast cancer research
A 3D render of team communication and abstract social network connection symbols with a hand in the background.
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Advanced mortality modeling earns UCSB team international actuarial prize
A man with shaggy hair and a beard drives a car while looking in the rearview mirror
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Leonard DiCaprio stars in Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another,” edited by UCSB alum Andy Jurgensen

“One Battle After Another” editor, alum Andy Jurgensen, to discuss the political thriller on campus
woman in professional attire at laptop with whiteboard
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UCSB Distinguished Professor Emeritus Brenda Major

Lifetime of research on prejudice and resilience earns Brenda Major national recognition
A hotshot in an orange hardhat, yellow Nomex jacket and sunglasses glances to the right backlit by an inferno engulfing the pines a few dozen yards behind him, with the book cover to the right.
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Centuries of misguided policy, politics and prejudice have primed the land for the unprecedented infernos that wildland firefighters now face every year.

Hotshots, history and the human choices behind megafires
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