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Environment + Sustainability

A Changing Sea Floor

Six years after ‘the Blob’ rolled through the Santa Barbara Channel, researchers find lasting effects in the kelp forest communities
Medicine + Health

Mapping Lyme Disease Out West

Researchers connect human Lyme disease infections with ecological factors across California
Culture + World

Where Songs Begin

Arts & Lectures performers share what goes into songwriting in new campus community workshop series from the music department
Environment + Sustainability

Fuel for Thought

Researchers from UC Santa Barbara and UCLA find that political leadership has no lasting impact on reforming fossil fuel taxes and subsidies

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Where Beauty Meets Brilliance

A dynamic environment that prizes academic inquiry and creativity to generate discoveries with wide-ranging impact: This inspirational setting, this collaborative community, this is UC Santa Barbara.

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"UC Santa Barbara provides an excellent blend of science and innovation. It is exciting to be a part of environmentally friendly and sustainable pharmaceutical drug synthesis in the Lipshutz group. There exists endless opportunities for industrial collaboration."

-Vani Singhania, Ph.D. Candidate | Chemistry & Biochemistry

Vani Singhania - Ph.D. candidate at UC Santa Barbara

"What made me fall in love with being at UC Santa Barbara was the people, students and faculty alike, and community who have fully supported my journey in learning how to value my education, my interests and most importantly, myself."

-Kevynh Truong, Undergraduate Student | Biopsychology & Asian American Studies

Kevynh Truong undergraduate student

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