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a sandy beach in the Bahamas
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Divina Cox

Citizen science app tracks coastal erosion in the Bahamas

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A great-tailed grackle on a patio chair

Both flexibility and persistence make some birds successful in human-made environments
open book with Persian writing and drawing
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Persian poet Saadi Shirazi's 13th-century hand-colored volume.

Rare Iranian treasures, from Qajar era to 1979 Revolution gifted to UCSB Library
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Biochemist Yang Yang becomes UCSB’s first Freeman Hrabowski Scholar
Rare earth element names with suffix “ium.”
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Matt Perko

A simple filter for rare earth elements will ensure a clean domestic supply of these crucial metals
Sara Poot Herrera a woman smiling
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Jeff Liang
UCSB Distinguished Professor Sara Poot Herrera

How to build global community through Mexican literature
woman working at a desktop computer with a sleeping baby on her chest
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To benefit from the internet, ‘not all screens are created equal’
book cover art of many Asian men coming out of a door down a rainbow
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Top Shelf Productions
Book cover art for “It Rhymes with Takei,” illustrated by Harmony Becker

Star Trek actor George Takei and coming out in 2005
man sneezing in bed

Optogenetic platform illuminates new antiviral strategies
An Icelandic braided river, seen from above.
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Luca Ronchi via iStock
Multi-channel rivers predominate in Iceland’s easily eroded volcanic soil.

Rivers choose their path based on erosion — a discovery that could transform flood planning and restoration
turbulence as ink is dispersed into water

New mathematical insights into Lagrangian turbulence
two orange-clad fishermen in a commercial vessel
A commercial fishing vessel near Kodiak Island, Alaska

Experts say seafood deregulation could impact sustainability and supply
book cover art of oscar wilde and his wife
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Author Louis Bayard is adapting his novel "The Wildes," which explores Oscar Wilde’s family life, for a staged reading at UCSB’s LAUNCH PAD Summer Series on July 10.

Louis Bayard brings ‘The Wildes’ to UCSB’s LAUNCH PAD series
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