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researchers working with Senegalese partners
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UCSB geographer David López-Carr, center left, and Stanford University health and environmental scientist Andrea Lund, center right, working with Senegalese partners

Research and efforts to combat schistosomiasis earn geographer David López-Carr several high-profile awards

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a cathedral in the middle of a mountain town in Colombia
Yarumal, a municipality in the foothills of the Andes north of Medellín, is one of several communities in Colombia that host a large kindred with a genetic form of early-onset Alzheimer's disease
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Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand in costume as Lord and Lady MacBeth
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Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand in Joel Coen’s 2021 film, “The Tragedy of Macbeth”
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A foothill yellow-legged frog perches on a rock.
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Brome McCreary
Foothill yellow-legged frogs live in the flowing water of rivers and streams, so are especially vulnerable when these shrink to isolated pools.
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James Hartle at the Sante Fe Institute in 2011.
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Copyright: Babak Dowlatshahi
Jim Hartle provided a grounding, yet inspiring presence to his friends and colleagues.
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symphony on stage
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The premiere of composer Earl Louis Stewart's "Homage to Swing" at UCLA's Herb Alpert School of Music's Schoenberg Auditorium, Feb. 5, 2017, as part of the "Swinging to a World of Strings" concert with Maestro Neal Stulberg conducting.
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red neon lights a window box in grey hallway with photo panels and mirrors
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Patrick Pyszka, city of Chicago
Hương Ngô & Hồng-Ân Trương, "chân trời foot of the sky," 2023. Archival pigment prints, two-way mirrored glass, neon. 240 x 92 x 30 in.
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people on stage
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Fritz Olenberger
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six women facing the sea with their arms raised in heart hands
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Simona Pilolla