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How a prehistoric cosmic airburst is assisting archaeologists today
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Jeopardy Productions, Inc.
History doctoral candidate Kristen Thomas-McGill on Jeopardy

Jeopardy winner and doctoral candidate Kristen Thomas-McGill examines the history of child sexual abuse, celebrity and public memory
A person walks past a Vote Here sign in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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Lorie Shaull via Wikimedia
Climate concerns likely gave Democrats the White House in 2020

US voters’ climate change opinions swing elections
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UCSB Writing Program names inaugural M. Garren Tinney fellows

Global groundwater depletion is accelerating, but is not inevitable
dancer in black and white striped dress
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Photo by Walter E. Owen. Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
Janet Collins in "Chain Gang," 1949.

The exiles who shaped the contours of modern dance
Portrait of professor Jody Enders with two books of translated French stage comedies
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Matt Perko
Author and professor Jody Enders, January 2024

Jody Enders’s ‘uncomfortably entertaining’ naughty French comedies nab prize for translation
The 14 members of the Biopacific Group pose outside Elings Hall
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Courtesy Photo
The NSF BioPACIFIC MIP group.

BioPACIFIC MIP unites two UC campuses to advance a new model for materials research
A teenager and an adult sitting in chairs, facing one another, in serious conversation
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iStock / SeventyFour

UCSB partners with local schools to support students facing trauma
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Visiting law scholar to discuss race at the Supreme Court
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National Academy of Inventors recognizes Professor Thuc-Quyen Nguyen
Jean Beaman head shot
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Matt Perko
Jean Beaman, associate professor of sociology

Black Lives Matter in France – Ethnographer Jean Beaman reads transnational connections for Black liberation
Dancers from Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo posed in red dresses
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Courtesy photo
Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo is celebrating their 50th anniversary season

Keep on ‘Trockin’’ in the free world
arts and technology at different hemispheres of the brain

NSF-supported collaborative project to connect culture, creativity and technological innovation
A school of hammerhead sharks.
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Masayuki Agawa via OceanImageBank

A global study reveals pathways to save threatened sharks, despite rising mortality trends
A large crescent moon shines in the early twilight over tidal mudflats.
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DALL-E, prompt by Harrison Tasoff.
A soft summer evening in the Paleoproterozoic, as envisioned by DALL-E.

Even the oldest eukaryote fossils show dazzling diversity and complexity
satellite image of Mississippi River and surrounding towns
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USGS via Unsplash
The Mississippi River and surrounding towns near the border of Arkansas and Mississippi

Unpacking social equity from biodiversity data: an interdisciplinary policy perspective
Shorebirds on a kelp-laden beach
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Jenny Dugan
Shorebirds forage in kelp wrack on a beach in California

The choreography of cross-ecosystem subsidies that connects the kelp forest to the beach
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Library launches free makerspace with grand opening workshops and ‘UCSB Reads’ book giveaway
A blue macrophage engulfs a magenta lymphocyte, as rendered by ChatGPT4.
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ChatGPT4, prompt by Denise Montell
A blue macrophage engulfs a magenta lymphocyte, as rendered by ChatGPT4.

When bad cells go good: harnessing cellular cannibalism for cancer treatment
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