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 — ‘Unveiling our most-visited stories of 2023’ and more news, events
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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.
UCSB — The Current — ‘Core textbook on computer music distills ‘vast information space’ in a definitive tutorial’ and more news, events
An updated and expanded edition of Curtis Rhodes’ work maintains its volume as a seminal textbook.
UCSB — The Current — A ‘Paris Agreement’ for plastic could slash plastic pollution to almost zero and more news, events
A comprehensive new analysis leverages AI to lay out how a UN plastics treaty — currently under negotiation — can achieve nearly zero plastic waste by 2040. Without intervention, say scientists, plastic pollution is set to rise 60% by 2050.
UCSB — The Current — ‘A ‘fish cartel’ for Africa could benefit the countries, and their seas’ and more news, events
By organizing and selling access to their fisheries as a unit, African nations can make more from their fisheries on the global market, while protecting their seas’ biodiversity.
UCSB — The Current — ‘Celebrating the legacy of Walter Capps’ and more news, events
The religious studies professor turned politician will be remembered in a special event hosted by the Walter H. Capps Center for the Study of Ethics, Religion, and Public Life.
UCSB — The Current — ‘The mind of the machine’ and more news, events
A conversation with Chat GPT, led by digital humanities scholar Fabian Offert, raises questions about how large language models think.
UCSB — The Current — ‘Seeding climate solutions for California’s amphibian communities and iconic beaches’ and more news, events
Biologist Cherie Briggs and geographer Ian Walker receive University of California Climate Action Grants to advance their respective efforts in restoration and conservation.
UCSB — The Current — ‘Love and care outside normativity’ — a new art show immerses viewers in queer placemaking’ and more news, events
Curated by art history graduate students Graham Feyl and Sylvia Faichney, the exhibition — now on view at UCSB’s Art, Design & Architecture Museum — reimagines spaces such as discos, dive bars, living rooms and bathrooms through the lens of queer placemaking.
UCSB — The Current — ‘Technology and democracy in crisis: time to ‘get uncomfortable and get curious’ and more news, events
Scholars from across the nation convened on campus to discuss how to sort news from the noise through public-facing research and classroom conversations.
UCSB — The Current — Charmaine Chua is named a 2023 Freedom Scholar
UCSB — The Current — A Chumash cultural burn reignites ancient practice for wilderness conservation
A Chumash cultural burn reignites ancient practice for wilderness conservation
Reviving a practice that had been lost for generations, the Chumash community and the university partner on a cultural burn at North Campus Open Space.
UCSB — The Current — From HIV-AIDS to COVID-19, scholar Bishnupriya Ghosh illuminates the complexities of living with viruses and more events, news
In “The Virus Touch,” the global studies professor explores relationships between viruses, humans, animals and the environment to show how various forms of media — from news content to lab test results — create our understanding of epidemics.
UCSB — The Current — ‘Welcome, Gauchos!’ and more news, events
View this email online September 28, 2023 Top News Welcome, Gauchos! UC Santa Barbara’s annual convocation ceremony welcomes new Gauchos to the campus and serves as the official kickoff to the 2023-2024 academic year. Read more about convocation What…
UCSB — The Current — Cherríe Moraga’s seminal lesbian and Chicana text is expanded and re-released
A powerful memoir of poetry and prose, “Loving in the War Years: Lo que nunca pasó por sus labios” explores the author’s interconnected identities as a lesbian and a Chicana, coming of age in a turbulent era of American politics and social change.
UCSB — The Current — ‘Children’s drawings illustrate the hurt imparted by policies of family separation’ and more news, events
“When a child is separated from a parent, it impacts every facet of the child’s life in emotional, physical and financial ways,” said Silvia Rodriguez Vega, an assistant professor of Chicana and Chicano studies, whose new book considers hundreds of drawings by children living on the American side of the U.S.-Mexico border.
UCSB — The Current — ‘From rickshaw to railroad, a scholar navigates Japan’s history of transportation’ and more news, events
In her forthcoming book, and with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Kate McDonald illuminates the key role of people in the evolution of transport.
UCSB — The Current — ‘When the brain leaves the body, does identity move with it? Depends on who you ask,’ and more news, events
For answers, John Protzko and his team looked to philosophers, professionals and laypersons. Their conclusions could help answer moral and legal questions if scenarios in today’s science fiction ever become reality.
UCSB — The Current — ‘Unite to Light sends solar lamps and chargers to Lahaina’ and more news, events
The nonprofit co-founded at UC Santa Barbara teams with Direct Relief to provide efficient and clean sources of light and electricity to the Maui community left decimated by wildfires.
UCSB — The Current — ‘Documenting names crafted in public places with nails, tar, bark and bubblegum, artist Alex Lukas releases 12th edition of his fanzine’ and more news, events
The new issue of Written Names Fanzine, which chronicles occurrences of hyper-localized, unsanctioned public writing, features found names stuck in bubblegum in San Luis Obispo.
UCSB — The Current — ‘Dogs can detect COVID-19 infections faster and more accurately than conventional technology’ and more news, events
The idea has gained scientific consensus: Dogs can be just as good — and sometimes better — than our best tests at detecting the stealthy virus and its variants, even when they are obscured by other viruses, like colds and flu.
UCSB — The Current — ‘An art museum with a defining collection of Southern California architecture & design’ and more news, events
The jewels in the crown of the collection held by the Art, Design & Architecture Museum — plucked from the coastal forests and deserts of California Modernism — are its nearly 290 archives of architects, landscape architects and industrial and graphic designers practicing in Southern California.
UCSB — The Current — ‘Groundbreaking work of four prominent Black psychologists featured for the first time in American Psychologist’ and more news, events
Using an Afrocentric and critical race theoretical framework, lead author Sharon Tettegah and co-authors Alison Cerezo, Terrance Wooten and DeLeon Gray review the works of four prominent Black psychologists.
UCSB — The Current — ‘Paranormal experiences, among other extraordinary feelings, provide tools for cross-cultural study’ and more news, events
“The culture in which a person grows up can impact the interpretation of the event,” said UC Santa Barbara professor emeritus Ann Taves. “And certain cultures can encourage people to watch out for and expect to experience these things.”
UCSB — The Current — Multiple ecosystems in hot water after marine heatwave surges across the Pacific and more news, events
While they confer many ecological benefits, marine protected areas do not shield against the effects of prolonged elevated water temperatures.
UCSB — The Current — Taming Fire: Controlled burns can be a boon to our landscape
Resource managers are increasingly turning toward prescribed burns as a tool for land maintenance and restoration — and for reducing the risk of wildfires.
UCSB — The Current — ‘Lessons in sustainability, evolution and human adaptation — courtesy of the Holocene’ and more news, events
Remarkably well preserved after 11,000 years, the botanical materials at El Gigante reflect the transition from foraging to farming, providing a rare glimpse of early foraging strategies and changes in subsistence.
UCSB — The Current — ‘And just like that … a new crop of Gaucho grads takes a bow’ and more news, events
“Pomp & Circumstance” on repeat, thousands of cap-and-gown-clad grads wended their way from the Thunderdome, across the bike path, behind Hatlen Theater, toward the lagoon and onto Commencement Green to the cheers of family and friends.
UCSB — The Current — ‘UC Santa Barbara kicks off Commencement with College of Creative Studies ceremony’ and more news, events
The first of a series of events celebrating the campus’s newest crop of graduates shined a spotlight on CCS, the “graduate school for undergraduates.”
UCSB — The Current — ‘First-generation graduate Anabel Rocha Ambrosio builds a better life with education as the foundation’ and more news, events
The Promise Scholar is graduating as a double major and is next set to join the university’s intensive Teacher Education Program on a full ride.
UCSB — The Current — ‘Physicists discover an exotic material made of bosons’ and more news, events
Between the overlapping arrangement of two lattices, physicists find some interesting material behaviors that have never been seen before
UCSB — The Current — ‘New test reveals existing antibiotics, hiding in plain sight on pharmacy shelves, can cure superbugs’ and more news, event
Major new antibiotics research has significant implications in the fight against bacterial resistance.
UCSB — The Current — ‘Tending to our superblooms requires developing plans for people to enjoy them’ and more news, events
After a rainy winter, folks are flocking to see California’s superblooms. But, experts say, smart management strategies will be required if we want to continue enjoying these spectacular events in the future.
UCSB — The Current — ‘Composer João Pedro Oliveira is awarded a Guggenheim’ and more news, events
View this email online. April 20, 2023 Top News Composer João Pedro Oliveira is awarded a Guggenheim “All of us at UC Santa Barbara are fortunate to have a colleague of such talent and expertise in our Music Department,” said…
UCSB — The Current — ‘A new, fully electric facility opens just in time for spring quarter, increasing classroom capacity by 35%’ and more news, events
The recently completed Interactive Learning Pavilion is the campus’s first new dedicated classroom building in more than 50 years.
UCSB — The Current — ‘Small Insect, Big Impact’ and more news, events
The productivity of brine flies is tied to overall health of salt lake ecosystems; both are in decline.
UCSB — The Current — ‘Mind Reader’ and more news, events
UCSB — The Current — ‘Stripped to the Bone’ and more news, events
Research in Moorea shows the presence of coral skeletons influences reef recovery after bleaching.
UCSB — The Current — ‘The Way of the JEDI’ and more news, events
The Gevirtz Graduate School of Education is awarded a record grant for K-12 mental health services.
UCSB — The Current — Rethinking the Term ‘Self-Taught’ and more news, events
Doctoral candidate Elizabeth Driscoll Smith receives a dissertation fellowship to research the impact of transportation on midcentury American folk art.
UCSB — The Current — ‘The Geek Girls of Big Tech’ and more news, events
A new book by sociology professor France Winddance Twine offers firsthand accounts of inequality in Silicon Valley and centers the experiences of Black and Latinx women.
UCSB — The Current — ‘A New Leader’ and more news, events
UCSB — The Current — ‘New Plans for a Longer, More Vibrant Life’ and more news, events
UCSB — The Current — ‘Filming Proteins in Motion’ and more news, events
UCSB — The Current — ‘Deconstructing Lignin’ and more news, events
Researchers prove that tough, woody lignin can be broken down in an anaerobic environment.
UCSB — The Current — ‘Women In Motion’ and more news, events
The UCSB Dance Company explores the spectrum of human sensibility through the lens of female choreographers.