What's Current in
Culture + World
Image
![Portrait of Charmaine Chua](/sites/default/files/styles/large_2340x1212/public/2023-10/Charmaine%20Chua-outdoor-closeup.jpg?itok=wJhsEjEp)
Charmaine Chua is a 2023 Freedom Scholar
Image
![Utility worker in an orange vest and hardhat stands in grass at a wind farm](/sites/default/files/styles/large_2340x1212/public/2023-09/wind-farm-iStock-1331817817-opt.jpg?itok=l4LAny6a)
Photo Credit
iStock / Vanessa Nunes
Image
![Historian Kate McDonald](/sites/default/files/styles/large_2340x1212/public/2023-09/kate-mcdonald-uc-santa-barbara.jpg?itok=iACWzCfc)
Photo Credit
Matt Perko
Historian Kate McDonald, August 2023
Image
![Two opposing heads with winged and horned brain and tailed and haloed brain.](/sites/default/files/styles/large_2340x1212/public/2023-09/Moral-mind-istock.jpg?itok=IZKC611M)
Photo Credit
kovalto1 via iStock
Moral reasoning creates distinct patterns of activity in the brain.
Image
![Illustration of a person's soul leaving the body](/sites/default/files/styles/large_2340x1212/public/2023-07/iStock-Lidiia-Moor-UC-Santa-Barbara.jpg?itok=E81_3Ty4)
Photo Credit
Lidiia Moor / iStock
Image
![A person holds a phone displaying an image of a diverse group of people.](/sites/default/files/styles/large_2340x1212/public/2023-06/snapchat-diversity.jpg?itok=7WiPxTxU)
Photo Credit
Nathana Rebouças, Unsplash
The ability to efficiently measure diversity in social media opens new possibilities for researchers, companies and consumers.
Image
![An envelope addressed to UCSB's Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, from Corcoran State Prison](/sites/default/files/styles/large_2340x1212/public/2023-05/literacy-studies-envelope-uc-santa-barbara.jpg?itok=sWJaZABv)
Photo Credit
Courtesy photo
With a California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Grant, Foundations in the Humanities is funded to run at Corcoran for three years.