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Wenfei Xu, an assistant professor of geography at UC Santa Barbara, coauthored the study "New Deal mortgage programmes benefited white borrowers disproportionately" in the journal Nature.

Exclusionary federal mortgage lending widened racial wealth gap in the US

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Visala Tallavarjula installs irrigation in Sedona, Arizona

When Every Drop Counts
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Fantastic Bioplastic
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Determined to Learn
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A Clear Vision
From left, Bob Miller, Julie Black, Bradford Jones and Kyle Emery

Serendipity on the Shore
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Too Much Information
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With a Probing Eye
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Delight in the Arts

Not Just for the Gods
Experimental optical setup in physics lab

A Different Kind of Chaos
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Catching Plastic at Its Source
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From Droplet to Discovery
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