Your Thursday News Briefing

UC Santa Barbara's Top News & Featured Events [UC Santa Barbara's Top News & Featured Events] [The Current]( October 17, 2024 ▤ Top News [Person exercising with battle ropes]( [Bursts of exercise boost cognitive function, neuroscientists find]( Executive functioning was the key cognitive domain impacted by vigorous exercise, such as high-intensity interval training (HIIT) protocols, according to new research. [Read more about HIIT and the brain]( [Tania Israel]( [Tania Israel’s new book teaches civil conversations in divisive times]( Bridging the political divide has never been more urgent. In “Facing the Fracture: How to Navigate the Challenges of Living in a Divided Nation,” the professor offers practical tools to foster dialogue and reconnect. [Read more about “Facing the Fracture”]( [ Zackary Glazewski, Joshua Hopkins, Gina Milan, Esmeralda Morales, and Gil Sia]( [The Promise Fellowship Program supports graduate first-gen students from low-income households]( “I couldn’t be more in awe of the opportunity to keep learning valuable knowledge and skills from my dream school all over again,” said Gina Milan, one of five new Promise Fellows for 2024-2025. [Read more about the program]( [More News]( ▤ Featured Events [Person shows off vaccine bandage]( [Fall Vaccine Clinic]( October 18, 2024 Shots for COVID-19, flu, hepatitis B, HPV, MMR, pneumococcal shingles, tetanus, whooping cough and varicella will be provided by Albertsons/Vons/Pavilions Pharmacy, weekly on Fridays. [Women's volleyball being played]( [Women’s Volleyball vs. Hawai’i]( October 19, 2024 The Gauchos take on the Rainbow Warriors at the Thunderdome for Alumni Weekend. [Red and blue ballot boxes in front of an American flag]( [The Choice of Our Lives – For Real]( October 22, 2024 The Department of Political Science hosts a roundtable discussion of the relationship between identity, polarization, and the 2024 election, and the impact media has on all three. [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.