NSF Director Sethuraman Panchanathan visits the campus and shares his thoughts for the future of science and engineering research.
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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.”
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 grant funds are helping the Gevirtz School prepare teachers California sorely needs and more news, events
The Gevirtz School and the Santa Barbara County Education Office were awarded $950,000 to support up to 40 graduate students pursuing teaching credentials.
UCSB — The Current — ‘Keep calm!’ The economy stays steady despite inflation and the impacts of remote work and more news, events
“Our economy is tough,” said Peter Rupert, a professor of economics and director of the Economic Forecast Project, which featured the Fed’s Christopher Waller and San Francisco chief economist Ted Egan during its 2023 South Coast Summit.
UCSB — The Current — ‘A biblical villain goes on trial in the darkly comic ‘The Last Days of Judas Iscariot’ and more news, events
The Current — ‘How a drought affects trees depends on what’s been holding them back’ and more news, events
UCSB — The Current — ‘Asian American studies launches interdisciplinary Ph.D. emphasis’ and more news, events
“Asian American Studies at UCSB is a leading department for the field, and we believe that formal recognition at the graduate level is essential,” said Lisa Sun-Hee Park, a professor and the new program’s graduate advisor.
UCSB — The Current — ‘A relative of sorts of Schmigadoon, an opera pokes fun at opera’ and more news, events
The music department stages the rarely performed 1904 operetta “Burning to Sing,” a witty send-up of opera’s tropes and conventions.
UCSB — The Current — A gesture of solidarity, by way of art, with the struggle for Iranian women’s rights and more news, events
UCSB — The Current — ‘UCSB to lead NSF-funded research institute for next-level AI-powered cybersecurity’ and more news, events
Giovanni Vigna, with colleagues Ambuj Singh, Christopher Kruegel and João Hespanha, will head the $20-million Institute for Agent-based Cyber Threat Intelligence and OperatioN (ACTION).
UCSB — The Current — ‘Joining one of the world’s premier honorary societies, three professors are named to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences’ and more news, events
Professors Tanya Atwater, Leda Cosmides and Nelson Lichtenstein have been elected to the prestigious, 243 year-old institution.
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.