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aerial view of wildfire marching across a forest landscape
Where fire is a natural part of the ecosystem, it can create space and opportunities for adaptations and new species

Naturally fire-prone ecosystems tend to have more species of birds and mammals, a new study reveals
Mono Lake with bright sunshine
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Matt Perko
Mono Lake, where brine flies are a key food source for water birds.

The productivity of brine flies is tied to the overall health of salt lake ecosystems; both are in decline
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Documentary screening features Nobel Prize-winning journalist Maria Ressa
Tsimané fishing with bows and arrows
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Michael Gurven
Compared to industrialized counterparts Tsimané people of lowland Bolivia have less food availability and must expend more effort to get it

Greater fat stores and blood cholesterol increase with brain volume, but beyond a certain point they are associated with faster brain aging
a close-eyed statue with brain exposed, coming into focus
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Photo illustration by Matt Perko. Original image by David Matos on Unsplash.

Researchers use artificial intelligence to hunt for human intelligence
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Carsey-Wolf Center to screen Iraq War drama “Our River ... Our Sky”
Stressed pines on a hill in southwestern Colorado.
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A climate-stressed forest in southwestern Colorado near Wolf Creek Pass.
A climate-stressed forest in southwestern Colorado near Wolf Creek Pass.

US forests face an unclear future with climate change
Corner of Embarcadero Del Mar and Pardall in Isla Vista, CA
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Jeff Liang

Regulations in place, alternative activities planned for the weekend of April 7-9
A snorkeler with camera and note pad investigates a nearly bleached coral.
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Jeff Liang
Professor Deron Burkepile observes coral in the process of bleaching in the reefs around Moorea.

Stripped to the Bone: Research in Moorea shows the presence of coral skeletons influences reef recovery after bleaching
A couple dances to cumbia in the film Yo Soy No Guapo
“Yo No Soy Guapo,” 2018, directed by Joyce Garcia

Cumbia connects nations and generations through music and dance
A glowing circuit board
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Unsplash/Adi Goldstein

Jonathan Balkind receives NSF Early CAREER Award to improve cloud-based computing
A school psychologist speaks with a young student
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Federal funding for the JEDI Project will increase the number of highly trained psychologists in K-12 public schools

Gevirtz Graduate School of Education awarded record grant for K-12 mental health services
Philosophy professor Thomas Holden
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Matt Perko
Professor Thomas Holden, March 2023

New book offers new interpretation on Thomas Hobbes’ philosophy of religion
Orange glass bottle mosaic structure with dolls and miscellanea
Inside one of the unique dwellings by California folk artist Tressa "Grandma" Prisbrey.

Bottle Village and the impact of transportation on midcentury folk art
Female Professor France Winddance Twine
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Matt Perko
Professor France Winddance Twine, March 2023

New book offers firsthand accounts of inequality in Silicon Valley, centers Black and Latinx women
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UC Santa Barbara’s Critical Issues in America series will examine the broad societal implications of aging and extension of longevity
“Particle physics isn’t dead,” reads the blackboard behind an expressive physicist presenting to a packed audience.
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Harrison Tasoff
Although the LHC only discovered one new particle, “particle physics isn’t dead,” physicist Nima Arkani-Hamed exclaims in the program’s packed final talk.

Physicists gather to chart a path for the next kind of particle collider
Alexa Bertola in a CalTrans hard hat inset in a circle above Henley Gate, UC Santa Barbara

Caltrans representative answers questions about the impending construction project on Highway 217
Professor Umesh Mishra sitting on stairs
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Matt Perko
Professor Umesh Mishra

A new leader: Professor Umesh Mishra to become dean of engineering
blue lab coat with UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA in yellow stitching
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Matt Perko

A University of California multi-campus initiative strives to boost diversity within its STEM teaching faculty ranks
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