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Miles Moses '24

How a passion for math drove this College of Creative Studies grad to distinction
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Michelle Ramos Ramirez ’24

UCSB’s ÉXITO Program graduates third cohort of future ethnic studies teachers amidst rising attacks on ethnic studies
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Commencement returns to the Green
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Students from Adams Elementary School at the Santa Barbara Presidio learn about the statue of King Carlos III.

Exploring the meaning and significance of monuments
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National parks are far from the only way to protect areas of land. Systems like, indigenous governance, community management and Eco-certified production can also foster conservation.

A novel approach to tracking conservation reveals more areas may be conserved than currently accounted for
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S. Shailja PhD '24, electrical and computer engineering

Dissertations in geography and electrical & computer engineering receive Lancaster awards for excellence
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Owen Jenkins '24

Cartoonist and illustrator presents senior art show, plans new comic book project
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When it comes to erosion of democracy, not all social media are equally harmful
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NVC Finals judge Jason Rollman (left, in blue shirt) congratulates EyeClimate, the 2024 New Venture Competition Finals champions (from second to left) Bowen Zhang, PhD student; Max Gordon, undergraduate student; and Satish Kumar, PhD student

An entrepreneurial eye for solving climate change
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UC Santa Barbara leads $9 million research project on ocean cycles
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Legions of icebergs brought the Atlantic circulation to its knees during the last glacial period.

Historic iceberg surges offer insights on modern climate change
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Shining a light on new chemical reactions
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Understanding aging on a cellular level
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Mario T. García: A lifetime of achievement in Chicano/a history
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Sessile creatures like this barnacle were the key to determining when the oil pipeline was compromised, an event that eventually led to the oil spill

How Marine Science Institute researchers helped solve the 2021 Huntington Beach oil spill
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AI learns to pay covert attention
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Controlling the chaos of active fluids
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Brenda Major, May 2024

Brenda Major elected to National Academy of Sciences
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Investigating the changing disease ecology of California
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Clockwise from top left: Kristine Joy Chua, Amy Boddy, Hannah Frogge, Kim Yasuda, Anastasia Senavsky and Emilie Risha

‘Originalia’ art show celebrates the human reproductive system
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