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UC Santa Barbara’s Top News & Featured Events [UC Santa Barbara’s Top News & Featured Events] [Alternate text]( October 10, 2024 ▤ Top News [The structural complexity of a healthy coral reef provides habitat for a diversity of lifeforms.]( [Dead coral skeletons hinder reef regeneration by sheltering seaweed]( While working at reefs in Moorea, French Polynesia, Kai Kopecky found that the network of coral skeletons left in place by bleaching events caused critical processes to break down, ultimately preventing reefs from recovering. [Read more about the findings]( [Left to right: Anna Boser, Naomi Tague, David Valentine, and Leander Anderegg.]( [UCSB faculty and students among American Geophysical Union’s 2024 honorees]( Professors Naomi Tague and David Valentine have been elected as AGU fellows, while researchers Leander Anderegg and Anna Boser each won AGU awards. [Read more about the honorees]( [Celesta Billeci and Wynton Marsalis]( [A&L director awarded for leadership in the arts]( Celesta Billeci received the 2024 County of Santa Barbara Leadership in Arts Individual Award from the Santa Barbara County Office of Arts and Culture. [Read more about the award]( [More News]( ▤ Featured Events [Panic!: Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans]( October 12, 2024 Nicholas Baer joins moderator Patrice Petro for a post-screening discussion of the atmospheric drama that expresses potent anxieties over the corrosive effects of modernity. [MCC Open House]( October 12, 2024 Meet the MultiCultural Center team, learn about upcoming events and programs, discover student organizations affiliated with the center, and engage in discussion about community. [Recreational Biology: From Animals in Flatland to Cellular Origami]( October 14, 2024 The Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics welcomes speaker Manu Prakash, of Stanford University, for the next installment in its KITP Public Lecture series. [More Events]( Explore [Arts]( [Science & Technology]( [Society & Culture]( [Campus & Community]( [Events]( [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Instagram]( [Vimeo]( [LinkedIn]( [RSS Feeds]( Choose the emails you would like to receive by [managing your preferences](. If you do not wish to receive any emails from UC Santa Barbara Institutional Advancement (this includes event invitations, newsletters, networking opportunities and stories of philanthropy), you can [opt out of them ALL](. Got this as a forward [Sign up]( to receive our future emails. View this email [online](. UC Santa Barbara | Santa Barbara, CA 93106 US This email was sent to {EMAIL}. To continue receiving our emails, add us to your address book.