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UCSB — The Current — ‘A celebratory send-off’ and more news, events
From the sunny skies to the good vibes, it was a glorious graduation weekend at UC Santa Barbara.
UCSB — The Current — ‘From Juneteenth to reparations: The ongoing journey for racial justice’ and more news, events
Professor and historian Giuliana Perrone discusses her new research in the context of Juneteenth and the latest from California’s reparations task force.
UCSB — The Current — ‘UCSB’s ÉXITO Program graduates third cohort of future ethnic studies teachers amidst rising attacks on ethnic studies’ and more news, events
Designed for highly motivated students, the first of its kind program in the UC system provides undergraduates with a clearly structured pathway to becoming credentialed K-12 teachers.
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UCSB — The Current — ‘A week’s worth of commencement activities will celebrate 6,875 graduates for 2023–2024’ and more news, events
With the College of Creative Studies commencement festivities already in the books, eight more ceremonies remain in UC Santa Barbara’s graduation lineup for the Class of 2024.
UCSB — The Current — ‘A novel approach to tracking conservation reveals more areas may be conserved than currently accounted for’ and more news, events
The new method finds more extensive and diverse coverage, which is crucial for meeting the goal of protecting 30% of Earth by 2030.
UCSB — The Current — ‘UC Santa Barbara leads $9 million research project on ocean cycles’ and more news, events
Spanning 11 institutions, the effort will investigate the ocean’s carbon, oxygen and heat cycles over the next five years.
UCSB — The Current — ‘Historic iceberg surges offer insights on modern climate change’ and more news, events
Bringing warm surface water north and cold deep water south, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, or AMOC, is a major component of the global climate system, influencing marine ecosystems, weather patterns and temperatures. It’s also regarded as a potential tipping element of the Earth’s climate.
UCSB — The Current — ‘Mario T. García: A lifetime of achievement in Chicano/a history’ and more news, events
The historian and professor receives the Bert Corona Lifetime Achievement Award for inspiring progressive social change to advance the inclusion of the poor and oppressed.
Read more about the honor
UCSB —The Current — ‘Controlling the chaos of active fluids’ and more news, events
Physicists Cristina Marchetti and Mark Bowick develop design rules that take advantage of topological defects to control flows in active fluids.
UCSB — The Current — ‘Brenda Major elected to National Academy of Sciences’ and more news, events
A distinguished professor emerita in the Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, Major was cited for her pioneering and decades-long body of work on the psychological impacts of prejudice and discrimination.
UCSB — The Current — ‘How the romantic institution props-up a racialized dating landscape’ and more news, events
View this email online May 16, 2024 Top News How the romantic institution props-up a racialized dating landscape In a new book, Sabrina Strings blends historical research, personal anecdotes and cultural criticism to consider the demise of romantic partnerships, emphasizing…
UCSB — The Current — ‘Rolling with the punches: How mantis shrimp defend against high-speed strikes’ and more news, events
These territorial crustaceans use their tails as shields to defend against the explosive punches of their rivals.
UCSB — The Current — ‘Creative Studies student earns coveted Knight-Hennessy Scholarship’ and more news, events
Ashley Yeh ’24 will go on to pursue a Ph.D. in neuroscience at Stanford School of Medicine. The Knight-Hennessy Program, established in 2018, provides fellows up to three years of tuition and a stipend for living and academic expenses.
UCSB — The Current — ‘Historian Jeffrey Stewart elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences for his work in the visual arts’ and more news, events
The Black Studies professor, who won a Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for his acclaimed biography of Alain Locke, brings to 49 the number of UCSB faculty that have been named fellows of the academy.
UCSB — The Current — ‘How to build and protect skills in our modern workplace, a world filled with AI and robots’ and more news, events
Assistant professor Matt Beane‘s new book uncovers ways for workers to remain competent and competitive in an increasingly automated workplace.
UCSB — The Current — ‘New book explores gay, queer and feminist community in early advances in computer science’ and more news, events
Patricia Fancher digs into Alan Turing’s technical and scientific writing, highlighting his role in computing’s inception and his collaborations with women and queer individuals.
UCSB — The Current — ‘A prestigious career honor for two elite engineers’ and more news, events
Professors Beth Pruitt and M. Scott Shell have been named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
UCSB — The Current — ‘The Museum of Modern Art premieres Shana Moulton’s ‘Meta/Physical Therapy’ and more news, events
Healing meets the surreal in the hyper-saturated dreamscape featured in the exhibition and performance series by the art professor, whose work captures the banality and enormity of everyday life.
UCSB — The Current — ‘Computer scientist William Wang receives prestigious early career technical achievement award’ and more news, events
Wang’s considerable work to develop scalable algorithms that are both swift and accurate couldn’t be more necessary. His efforts are being recognized by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Signal Processing Society.
UCSB — The Current — ‘Pioneering translation’s artistry’ and more news, events
Latin American literature scholar Suzanne Jill Levine receives a PEN America award for translation.
UCSB — The Current — ‘Whale-saving cargo ship speed tracking program heads east’ and more news, events
Aiming to reduce ship strikes on the North Atlantic right whale, the Benioff Ocean Science Laboratory deploys its Whale Safe vessel-monitoring tool to track, in near real-time, cargo ships moving up and down the East Coast.
UCSB — The Current — ‘The Ottoman origins of refugee resettlement in Middle East’ and more news, events
Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky’s first book captures ‘an important moment in global history’ in the little-known story of how roughly 1 million Muslims from Russia sought refuge in the Middle East.
UCSB — The Current — ‘Organic farms can have mixed effects on pesticide use depending on their neighbors’ and more news, events
UCSB — The Current — ‘New collection will enable discovery and exploration of the influential work of Cedric and Elizabeth Robinson’ and more news, events
The library has acquired the Cedric J. and Elizabeth P. Robinson Archive, comprising research and teaching papers, ephemera and digital materials reflecting their seminal scholarship and activism.
UCSB — The Current — ‘Opening doors: Cuca Acosta’s journey from Santa Barbara High to college admissions leadership’ and more news, events
A Santa Barbara native, the first in her family to go to college, a tour guide during her UCSB days, and a 20-plus-year veteran of the admissions office, Acosta is an expert in her field.
UCSB — The Current — ‘In the Shadow of the Seawall’ tackles coastal land use dilemmas in the age of sea level rise and more news, events
Focusing on the Maldives and Guyana — two communities on the front lines of sea level rise — sociologist Summer Gray’s new book examines and illustrates how seawalls serve as a point of conflict between rich and poor, colonizer and Indigenous, powerful and powerless.
UCSB — The Current — Archive of multicultural modernist architect Steven Ehrlich adds to the art museum collection and more news, events
The acquisition underscores the Art and Design Collection’s status as a premier resource for the study of the built environment in Southern California from the late 19th century to the present day.
UCSB — The Current — ‘Historian Nelson Lichtenstein: Clinton betrayed progressives, capitulated to the right,’ and more news, events
Lichtenstein’s latest book examines the former president’s expansive agenda, revealing why it was such ‘a fabulous failure’ and why its demise still haunts us today.
UCSB — The Current — ‘Unraveling the mystery of chiton visual systems’ and more news, events
Rebecca Varney of the Department of Ecology, Evolution & Marine Biology helps to reveal the surprising origins behind mollusk eyes, shedding light on evolutionary processes.
UCSB — The Current — Poet professor reflects on imagination, students and racism in America and more news, events
Assistant teaching professor Michelle Petty-Grue explores her life and profession in the arts in this long-form interview that ranges from her upbringing in England to raising a Black son in America.
UCSB — The Current — ‘Untangling a sticky mystery: Researchers make progress into a genetic form of Alzheimer’s disease’ and more news, events
Members of a single Colombian family each carry a mutation linked to accelerated development of the sticky plaques that, in addition to tangles of a misfolded structural protein called tau, are the hallmarks of Alzheimer’s disease.
UCSB — The Current — ‘Researchers develop molecules for a new class of antibiotics that can overcome drug resistant bacteria’ and more news, events
The team in chemistry Professor Guillermo Bazan’s lab was trying to develop compounds to harness energy from bacteria. They wound up developing the basis for a new class of antibiotics.
UCSB — The Current — ‘Art installation examines Vietnamese refugee history’ and more news, events
At O’Hare International Airport’s Terminal 5, art lecturer H??ng Ngô and collaborator H?ng-n Tr??ng reimagine concepts of citizenship and safe passage in a newly commissioned piece.
UCSB — The Current — ‘Embracing single life: Love, intimacy and family beyond the couple’ and more news, events
View this email online February 13, 2024 Top News Embracing single life: Love, intimacy and family beyond the couple Using survey data from more than 20,000 people from over 100 countries, and drawing from research by other social scientists, Bella…
UCSB — The Current — ‘Reinforcing the diverse ways people access seafood can ensure healthy communities in the face of change’ and more news, events
Understanding and bolstering existing pathways for acquiring seafood — as opposed to creating new programs and processes — can promote food system resilience in the Pacific Islands.
UCSB — The Current — ‘Los Angeles Times columnist Gustavo Arellano to receive Luis Leal Award’ and more news, events
The author of “¡Ask a Mexican!” (2007), “Orange County: A Personal History” (2008) and “Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America” (2012) will join Mario T. Garcia to discuss his work as a journalist, politics and the future of print media.
UCSB — The Current — ‘Sea otters stabilize salt marsh banks as they recolonize a California estuary’ and more news, events
A new study finds that some features essential to the resiliency of Elkhorn Slough, a salt marsh-dominated coastal estuary in Monterey County, are improved by the return of sea otters and their insatiable appetite for herbivorous marsh crabs.
UCSB — ‘The Current’ — ‘The exiles who shaped the contours of modern dance’ and more news, events
“Border Crossings: Exile and American Modern Dance 1900-1955,” opening Jan. 25 at the Art, Design & Architecture Museum, “rests on the idea that the immigrant, the asylum seeker, the exiled artist, shaped the language of dance modernism.” Performances by Jose Limón Dance Company, Santa Barbara Dance Theater and UCSB Dance Company, as well as a symposium, complement the exhibition.
UCSB — ‘The Current’ — ‘A global study reveals pathways to save threatened sharks, despite rising mortality trends’ and more news, events
View this email online January 18, 2024 Top News A global study reveals pathways to save threatened sharks, despite rising mortality trends Geographic protections and fishing regulations could improve what is currently a bleak outlook for sharks, but new policies…
UCSB — The Current — ‘Even the oldest eukaryote fossils show dazzling diversity and complexity’
Researchers reveal that eukaryotic organisms had already evolved into a diverse array of forms 1.64 billion years ago.
UCSB — The Current — ‘The choreography of cross-ecosystem subsidies that connects the kelp forest to the beach’ and more news, events
A multi-institution collaboration of scientists investigates the rise and fall in the abundance of kelp, and how it affects shorebirds.
UCSB — The Current — ‘When bad cells go good: harnessing cellular cannibalism for cancer treatment’ and more news, events
Scientists decipher a cellular murder mystery in fruit flies, solving a human immunodeficiency. The discovery has the potential to enhance cancer immunotherapy.
UCSB — The Current ‘One last thing before we go…’
The Current will return to your inbox Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2024 with more research news, compelling campus features and other engaging UC Santa Barbara stories.
UCSB — The Current — ‘Unveiling our most-visited stories of 2023’ and more news, events
As The Current winds down coverage for this calendar year, we round up and reflect on the five stories from 2023 that you visited most.
UCSB — The Current — ‘Clinical trial proves that the ketogenic diet is effective at controlling polycystic kidney disease’ and more news, events
“I’m really happy about these clinical trial results,” said biologist Thomas Weimbs, whose lab was part of an international collaboration to investigate the effect of the fasting response known as ketosis on the cysts that are the hallmark of the disease.
UCSB — The Current — ‘Modernists defined organic architecture, Helena Arahuete is making it current’ and more news, events
The Los Angeles-based architect’s 50-year career in organic architecture is the focus of the Art, Design & Architecture Museum’s current exhibition “From Within: The Architecture of Helena Arahuete.”
UCSB — The Current — ‘Hallmark uplifts Black love with historic Mahogany movie premier’ and more news, events
Written by Wendy Eley Jackson, a lecturer in film and media studies, “Napa Ever After” is part of an effort to create movies that appeal to African-American families, particularly women, and reflect the themes of love, romance and personal growth.
UCSB — The Current — ‘Illuminating the benefits of marine protected areas for ecotourism, and vice versa’ and more news, events
Research in California’s Northern Channel Islands provides strong evidence of the benefit of marine protected areas for the recreational scuba diving industry in Southern California and highlights that the diving community should be considered a key stakeholder in decision-making about the future of MPAs.
UCSB — The Current — ‘Compendium on Chicano writer Juan Felipe Herrera strikes gold’ and more news, events
Professor Emeritus Francisco Lomelí and Osiris Aníbal Gómez Ph.D. ’20 won an International Latino Book Award for their work on the former poet laureate.