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.
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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 — ‘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 — ‘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 — Innovation anywhere, opportunities everywhere
NSF Director Sethuraman Panchanathan visits the campus and shares his thoughts for the future of science and engineering research.
UCSB — The Current — ‘Freedom in the aftermath of slavery’ and more news, events
In “Nothing More Than Freedom,” historian Giuliana Perrone tracks the failure of abolition in American law.
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 — 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.”