Nobel Laureate Honored by National Academy of Sciences; Botanists Revive Plant Species; The Efficacy of Fisheries Management

UC Santa Barbara's Top News & Featured Events [UC Santa Barbara's Top News & Featured Events] [UC Santa Barbara]( January 23, 2020 Top News [Shuji Nakamura]( [‘For Pioneering Discoveries’]( Nobel Laureate Shuji Nakamura will receive a special triennial award of the National Academy of Sciences. [Read More ▶]( [Carlomagno Calderon and Wayne Chapman]( [From Beyond the Brink]( Botanists help a once-extinct native plant find new life at North Campus Open Space. [Read More ▶]( [A large baitball of big eye trevally]( [Good Catch]( A global analysis shows that fisheries management actually works. [Read More ▶]( [More News]( Featured Events [Wesley Arai]( [Faculty Artist Recital]( January 26, 2020 University Carillonist Wesley Arai performs from Storke Tower. [Aerial View of Santa Barbara County]( [Two Years Later]( January 26, 2020 A free community conversation features local experts discussing the impacts of the Thomas Fire and subsequent debris flow. [The Family Markowitz]( [The Family Markowitz]( January 27, 2020 Cheri Gurse of the MultiCultural Center leads a discussion of Allegra Goodman’s book as part of a series exploring issues of race and belonging through literature. [More Events]( UC Santa Barbara In The News [The Atlantic]( [The Way We Write History Has Changed]( If a single archive visit allows a historian to capture five, 10, 20 times as many documents, the expectations of the depth of archival work will almost certainly increase. Patrick McCray, a historian at UC Santa Barbara, quantified the increase in the documents he has captured over time by looking at the size of his files for several different books. [Read More ▶]( [Scientific American]( [Escape From a Black Hole]( This is the key to understanding that aforementioned 9 billion ton figure, which was calculated by researchers from the University of California, Santa Barbara, the University of Georgia and the Sea Education Association: Most of that plastic — roughly 7 billion tons — has been thrown away. [Read More ▶]( [Arts]( | [Science + Technology]( | [Society + Culture]( | [Campus + Community]( | [Athletics]( | [Calendar]( [UC Santa Barbara]( Connect with Us: [FB icon]( [Twitter icon]( [Vimeo icon]( [LinkedIn icon]( [YouTube icon]( [RSS icon]( Copyright © 2020 The Regents of the University of California. All Rights Reserved. Share this email: [Email]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [LinkedIn]( 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]( using TrueRemove® 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.]({EMAIL})