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November 7, 2024

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Bridging divided views to strengthen communities

In award-winning video series Research in 60, Tania Israel, a professor in the Department of Counseling, Clinical & School Psychology, discusses strategies for navigating conversations in a divided nation.

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Mapping Alzheimer’s: Cristina Venegas follows a genetic puzzle

The film and media studies professor films a unique partnership between neuroscientist Kenneth Kosik, Colombian counterpart Francisco Lopera and the largest kindred of early-onset genetic Alzheimer’s patients.

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Is ‘U-shaped happiness’ universal? Not for rural subsistence populations, say researchers

In nonindustrialized societies, it’s more common for happiness to increase into middle age, and then decline in later life.

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When Life Is a Shipwreck

November 7, 2024

Scholar and dramaturg Julia Reinhard Lupton examines key passages in Twelfth Night that illuminate the navigation of life changes and social bodies at the heart of Shakespeare’s sonorous romantic comedy.

Itzhak Perlman and Friends

November 7, 2024

A reigning virtuoso of the violin returns to Santa Barbara with a distinguished group of collaborators: internationally celebrated pianists Jean-Yves Thibaudet and Emanuel Ax and the Juilliard String Quartet.