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Recent UCSB graduates Matthieu Huy and Enri Lala were selected from 3,400 applicants for a fully funded year of graduate study in France.

Two UC Santa Barbara graduates receive inaugural Lafayette Fellowship

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Matt Perko
Howard Chiang, UCSB historian

Howard Chiang honored for career in queer history and Sinophone studies
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Culture plays key role in people comfortable with contradiction and change
Walter Echo-Hawk, Nakia Zavalla, Edward Halealoha Ayau and Timothy McKeown
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From left to right, “Repatriation Futures” team members Walter Echo-Hawk, Nakia Zavalla, Edward Halealoha Ayau and Timothy McKeown at the Santa Ynez Chumash Museum and Cultural Center.

Capps Center receives grant for work on Indigenous repatriation
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Professional honors for two UC Santa Barbara geographers
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How farming perennial crops can help us in times of climate change, food insecurity and social division
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3D printed instrumentation means that national meteorological services in Africa can take full ownership of their networks, building, repairing and sustaining them independently.

3D-printed weather station initiative enhances local monitoring in Southern Africa
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Jeff Liang

How books helped make computers mainstream
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Matt Perko
UC Santa Barbara English assistant professor Jim Casey is leading a project to recover and share 19th-century African American newspapers using artificial intelligence.

$750,000 Schmidt Sciences grant uses AI to transform Black press archives
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A two-minute fix for procrastination
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Civil rights lawyer Sherrilyn Ifill reimagines democracy in talk for UCSB Arts & Lectures
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Paul Leonardi

In ‘Digital Exhaustion,’ Paul Leonardi shares how to make technology work for you
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Fareed Zakaria makes sense of a changing world in Arts & Lectures talk
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