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Jeff Liang

California prepares to accelerate quantum research and industry

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Book on transformation of queer nightlife shortlisted for prestigious award
Five sliced bagels are linked in a chain on a yellow background.
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Matt Perko
Linking single sugars into short-chain carbohydrates, called oligosaccharides, has proven surprisingly difficult.

New method to synthesize carbohydrates could pave the way to biomedical advances
an African American man at a computer while holding a medicine bottle

Better access to technology can help African Americans bridge the healthcare gap
color photograph of two students with newly arrived recycling bins on campus
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Jake Hereen
Kaili Mikami (left) and Lauren Buyalos with an early shipment of reuse and recycling bins for their FLOW project

Environmental leadership program launches lab plastics reuse and recycling
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Artist's rendering of a young star surrounded by its protoplanetary disk, with elements furnished by NASA's Hubble Telescope

Some young suns are aligned with their planet-forming disks, others are born tilted
Fall colors fade into the distance in the rolling terrain of the Ozark Mountains.
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Benjamin Klinger via iStock

For nature-based climate solutions to work, they must be restructured
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A great-tailed grackle on a patio chair

Both flexibility and persistence make some birds successful in human-made environments
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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
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To benefit from the internet, ‘not all screens are created equal’
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