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Matt Perko
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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Two silver colored fish swim above a red coral reef in dark blue water

Healing Our Ocean
Humpback whale's tail above water against city skyline

Safe Harbor

Life Imitates Mica
Sunset at the Itenez River

Fulbright Amazonia
People sit watching erupting volcano in the distance

The Earth’s Newest Secret
2022 AGU award winners

Rewarding Geophysical Research
Power company worker wearing a hardhat is repairing electrical wires from a utility bucket truck.

Denial, Doubt and Delay
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Contemporary Art, Historical Resonance
Aerial view of green lawn running through buildings

On a Rankings Roll
Aspens towering into blue sky

From the Soil to the Sky
Brown mountains in Antarctica along icy blue waters

Magma and Ice
Fullbright Award recipients

Research on the Road
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