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Innovation Workshop Wizard Elina “Susy” Lopez Garza teaches students how to use a robotic sticker cutter.

UCSB program broadens STEM opportunity for underserved youth

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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
The sun glistens through water droplets on blades of grass.
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Matt Perko

Grasses are spendthrifts, forests are budgeters, in a nuanced account of plant water use
Aerial image of a lagoon wetland.
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David Huang
San Dieguito Lagoon, one of Beheshti’s primary research sites.

Kat Beheshti earns early career distinction for contributions to coastal science and resource management
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Professor Chris Van de Walle receives prestigious Welker Award
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Biochemist Yang Yang becomes UCSB’s first Freeman Hrabowski Scholar
A barracuda school off Bikar Atoll, Marshall Islands.
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University of Wisconsin–Madison
Monitoring fishing activity far from shore presents a challenge for resource management and marine conservation.

Satellites show that strictly protected marine areas exclude industrial fishing
drone footage of river with water based plastic trash collectors
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Benioff Ocean Science Laboratory
A depiction of various river plastic collection technologies utilized for data collection

How plastic pollution flows from rivers to oceans — and how to stop it
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Matt Perko
Joseph Polchinski at UCSB’s Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, where he advanced pivotal ideas in string theory and quantum gravity.

Polchinski archive opens digital window into renowned physicist’s work
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
Old, abandoned barn in a large field with white wildflowers and prairie grass.
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Richard McMillin via iStock
While global trends dominate environmental outcomes, decisions about recultivating or rewilding abandoned fields can influence habitat health.

Protecting nature may depend on where — not just how — we farm
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