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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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Chronicler of Our Times

History Revealed

Have a Seat

Tonga Eruption

Clot Buster

Pulverizing a Planet Killer

Probing a Parkinson’s Paradox

Art Reflects Life

Visionary Progress
A view of the columnar basalt forming Devils Postpile

Geology Underfoot
Geoff Meyerhof presenting at grad slam with slides behind

The Best of Both Worlds

Thanks for the Memory
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