UCSB — The Current — ‘Murphy Niu receives NSF CAREER award for quantum computing innovation’ and more news, events
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His book traces the migration of about a million Muslim refugees from Russia to the Middle East and the Balkans in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
The National Science Foundation has recognized the chemistry assistant professor with a CAREER Award, the agency’s most prestigious distinction for early-career faculty.
Scholar Hardi Kurda explores Kurdish cassette culture, demonstrating how displaced communities rely on alternative media to sustain cultural continuity.
Directors Barbara Kopple and Cecilia Peck join moderator Chelsea Kai Roesch of film and media studies for a post-screening discussion of their documentary about musicians The (Dixie) Chicks and their tangles with conservative culture in the wake of the Iraq War.
