With a new book that formalizes and interprets a collection of indigenous African art owned by an African collector, Sylvester Okwunodu Ogbechie, a professor of history of art and architecture at UC Santa Barbara, is changing the way African art...
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The Chicano movement of the 1960's and 70's represents the most significant civil rights and empowerment movement by Mexican Americans in the United States.
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Letters and Science, Earth ScienceThanks to John Cottle, people who enjoy reading about science online are about to get a feel for what research is like in Antarctica, as it's happening.
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Letters and Science, Ecology Evolution and Marine BiologyMight a penguin's next meal be affected by the exhaust from your tailpipe? The answer may be yes, when you add your exhaust fumes to the total amount of carbon dioxide lofted into the atmosphere by humans since the industrial revolution.
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Letters and Science, Ecology Evolution and Marine BiologyCan fish save coral reefs from dying? UC Santa Barbara researchers have found one case where fish have helped coral reefs to recover from cyclones and predators.
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Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Letters and Science, Chemistry and Biochemistry, Earth ScienceWhen UC Santa Barbara geochemist David Valentine and colleagues published a study in early 2011 documenting how bacteria blooms had consumed almost all of the deepwater methane plumes following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010, some...
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Letters and Science, Ecology Evolution and Marine BiologyA new study of flower petals shows evolution in action, and contradicts more that 60 years of scientific thought.
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Letters and Science, Chicano StudiesBy presenting a new interpretation of a Maya hieroglyphic verb, Gerardo Aldana, associate professor of Chicana and Chicano Studies at UC Santa Barbara, has revised the understanding of one of the longest-studied texts in Maya archaeology.
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Letters and Science, Writing ProgramLinda Adler-Kassner, director of the Writing Program at UC Santa Barbara, has been invited to visit the White House on Friday, October 7, to meet with officials from the U.S. Department of Education.
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Letters and Science, Psychological and Brain SciencesThanks to a new study of the retina, scientists at UC Santa Barbara have developed a greater understanding of how the nervous system becomes wired during early development.
