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UC Santa Barbara's Top News & Featured Events [UC Santa Barbara's Top News & Featured Events] [The Current]( November 7, 2024 ▤ Top News [graphic of two people arguing]( [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. [Watch the 1-minute tutorial]( [Kenneth Kosik and Francisco Loper]( [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. [Read more about the documentary]( [happy and sad faces on a six-sided die]( [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. [Read more about subjective well-being]( [More News]( ▤ Featured Events [actors on stage]( [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]( [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. [artwork of black figure with big eye and quilt]( [Echoes of Empowerment]( November 8, 2024 The MultiCultural Center showcases powerful and transformative work by student and community artists in its fall art exhibition and reception. [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.