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![Portrait of professor Jody Enders with two books of translated French stage comedies](/sites/default/files/styles/large_2340x1212/public/2024-01/uc-santa-barbara-Jody-Enders-perko.jpg?itok=y9inCsfT)
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Matt Perko
Author and professor Jody Enders, January 2024
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![UC Santa Barbara Professor Emeritus Francisco Lomelí](/sites/default/files/styles/large_2340x1212/public/2023-11/francisco-lomeli-2-uc-santa-barbara.jpg?itok=Rf7dXYzd)
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Paul Meyers
UC Santa Barbara Professor Emeritus Francisco Lomelí at the International Latino Book Awards, October 2023
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![Giuliana Perrone photographed in black and white outdoors in sunlight](/sites/default/files/styles/large_2340x1212/public/2023-10/uc-santa-barbara-giulinana-perrone.jpg?itok=yys4GmLE)
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Matt Perko
Giuliana Perrone, October 2023
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![Professor Bishnupriya Ghosh](/sites/default/files/styles/large_2340x1212/public/2023-09/Bishnupriya-Ghosh-uc-santa-barbara_0.jpg?itok=MqLCE8ag)
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Matt Perko
Professor Bishnupriya Ghosh, September 2023
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![Historian Kate McDonald](/sites/default/files/styles/large_2340x1212/public/2023-09/kate-mcdonald-uc-santa-barbara.jpg?itok=iACWzCfc)
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Matt Perko
Historian Kate McDonald, August 2023
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![The cover of “Mighty Bad Land” with Mount Luyendyk in the background.](/sites/default/files/styles/large_2340x1212/public/2023-08/mighty-bad-land-cover-uc-santa-barbara.jpg?itok=Lh2U8OZT)
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Bruce Luyendyk
Peak 1070 — near one of the team’s field camps — was renamed Mount Luyendyk in honor of the author’s contribution to our knowledge of Antarctica.
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![Rice terraces at sunset in Japan](/sites/default/files/styles/large_2340x1212/public/2023-06/iStock-Sean-Pavone.jpg?itok=tqS8neGN)
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iStock/Sean Pavone
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![Philosophy professor Thomas Holden](/sites/default/files/styles/large_2340x1212/public/2023-03/Tom-Holden-UCSB-5840.jpg?itok=c3ci5ZOw)
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Matt Perko
Professor Thomas Holden, March 2023
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![Female Professor France Winddance Twine](/sites/default/files/styles/large_2340x1212/public/2023-03/France-Winndance-Twine-UCSB.jpg?itok=KrmPfZE5)
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Matt Perko
Professor France Winddance Twine, March 2023