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Four adults in farmers clothes, their faces lit, look up at a foreboding figure in a mask
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Jeff Liang
The allegory that is 'Animal Farm' examines the perils of unchecked power and privilege, the use of words as a political weapon, and revolutions that erode into regimes not unlike those they overthrew.

UCSB theater students take on Orwell’s ‘Animal Farm,’ a fable that still bites

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Riparian community woodlands along the lower Tuolumne River near Merced, California. The dry grassland in the background indicates the semi-arid conditions and drought environment.

Biodiversity Imperiled
A depiction of an ion trap holding a detectable “bright” radium ion and co-trapped “dark” radioactive molecule.

A Rewarding Endeavor

Big-Time Support

Making Waves

Hippos and Anthrax
Scuba divers work on a cage

The Long View

Congratulations, Graduates

A Frozen Leap Forward

Ready to Serve

Quality and Quantity

Racial Justice Fellows

The Health Gap
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