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April 9, 2024

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Why do kids outperform their parents in this rural California town? A sociologist looks for answers.

Trevor Auldridge-Reveles spent 13 months in Dixon to investigate the remarkable levels of upward social mobility among teenagers from the small agricultural town between San Francisco and Sacramento.

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Human brain dissolving into floating particles

Researchers uncover a potential method for interrupting the misfolding of tau protein that underlies neurodegenerative disease

New molecular-level insights on the way pathological tau spreads could lead toward “a therapeutic intervention potentially capable of disaggregating tau or preventing its aggregation.”

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A new champion is crowned — and moves on to compete systemwide

For her 3-minute research talk, “Healthy Forests, Healthy Humans,” Kacie Ring, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology, earned the title 2024 UCSB Grad Slam Champion.

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Featured Events

Give Day 2024

April 11, 2024

Communal, comprehensive and a little competitive — Give Day is a 36-hour sprint to raise support for campus. Join the celebration by sharing memories and photos on social media or supporting a campus area close to your heart.

Charmaine Chua

April 11, 2024

The 2023-2024 Plous Award recipient will give the lecture, “Breaking Our (Supply) Chains: Anti-colonial Resistance in a Just-In-Time World.”

Open Studios at CCS: A UCSB Reads 2024 Event

April 13, 2024

Held in conjunction with UCSB Reads, which this year selected the book “Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us,” CCS students in book arts, sculpture and painting programs hold open studios.

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UC Santa Barbara in the News

Los Angeles Times • April 5, 2024

A big year for wildflowers in Southern California — just not poppies. Why?

The timing of the rain, a plant’s growth strategy and regional differences affect which plants flourish in a given year, said Joan Dudney, an associate professor of global change ecology at UC Santa Barbara.