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Two Mapuche women smiling and wearing colorful, traditional attire with silver necklaces.
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The Mapuche are Chile’s largest Indigenous group, having retained independence form the Spanish empire for centuries.

Indigenous land restitution empowers communities, but environmental gains require extra support

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A trawler off the coast of South Africa

A ‘fish cartel’ for Africa could benefit the countries, and their seas
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Social-behavioral findings can be highly replicable, six-year study by four labs suggests
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A U.S. Department of Education grant will fund mental health services for K–12 schools nationwide

Expanding mental health treatment for schoolchildren focus of national grant award to Gevirtz School and partner universities
Giuliana Perrone photographed in black and white outdoors in sunlight
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Matt Perko
Giuliana Perrone, October 2023

Freedom in the aftermath of slavery: historian Giuliana Perrone tracks the failures of American law
An illustration of a diversity of hands holding cell phones transmitting fake news
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Technology and democracy in crisis: time to ‘get uncomfortable and get curious’
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Storytelling is the ideal lens through which to view the light, and the shadows, of California
Portrait of Charmaine Chua
Charmaine Chua is a 2023 Freedom Scholar

Charmaine Chua is named a 2023 Freedom Scholar
Wayne Chapman uses a hand drill to start a coal, which Chumash Elder Ernestine Ygnacio-De Soto (seated) will use to start the fire.
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Matt Perko
Wayne Chapman uses a hand drill to start a coal, which Chumash Elder Ernestine Ygnacio-De Soto (seated) will use to start the fire.

A Chumash cultural burn reignites ancient practice for wildland conservation
Professor Bishnupriya Ghosh
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Matt Perko
Professor Bishnupriya Ghosh, September 2023

From HIV-AIDS to COVID-19, scholar Bishnupriya Ghosh unpacks decades of research to better understand the complexities of living with viruses
Utility worker in an orange vest and hardhat stands in grass at a wind farm
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Wind energy projects in North America are more likely to be opposed by white, wealthy communities
Silvia Rodriguez Vega and book cover with children's drawing

Children’s drawings illustrate the hurt imparted by policies of family separation 
Historian Kate McDonald
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Matt Perko
Historian Kate McDonald, August 2023

From rickshaw to railroad, a scholar navigates Japan’s history of transportation
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