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November 18, 2025

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Hotter than your average spa: Rising temps in Amazon lakes sound alarm over climate change

UCSB researchers contribute to an international account of extreme droughts and water temperatures in the Amazon basin.

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Free trade, moral panic and the politics of belonging

In her new book “Queer Traffic: Sex, Panic, Free Trade,” feminist studies scholar Jennifer Tyburczy traces the intersections of global economics and social regulation from the 1980s to the present.

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Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Experimental Physics Investigators awards to UCSB experimentalists

Physicists Sebastian Streichan, David Patterson and Andrea Young are among the 22 mid-career researchers to be named this year.

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? Featured Events

UCSB Jazz Ensemble

Wednesday, November 19

Jon Nathan directs an evening of big band music honoring two of the most influential modern jazz composers and arrangers, Jim McNeely and Bill Holman.

Peter Sellers from Carol for Another Christmas

CWC TV: Carol for Another Christmas

Thursday, November 20

The Twilight Zone’s Rod Serling adapted the Charles Dickens holiday classic for Cold War television audiences in this 1964 film.

POTUS

November 20-22, 2025

The Department of Theater and Dance stages a production of Selina Fillinger’s comedic play about seven women who risk life, liberty and the pursuit of sanity to keep the commander-in-chief out of trouble.

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? Campus Announcements

Open Enrollment Ends Friday

The period when faculty and staff members have an opportunity to review their health plans and make choices regarding their 2026 benefits ends at 5 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 21.