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UC Santa Barbara's Top News & Featured Events [UC Santa Barbara's Top News & Featured Events] [UC Santa Barbara]( April 1, 2020 Top News [Tissue Sample Test]( [A Quick Reaction]( Scientists provide essential COVID-19 testing supplies to Cottage Health System. [Read More ▶]( [Parts for a face mask on a 3D printer.]( [Printing Protection]( Researchers begin 3D-printing protective gear to aid local medical facilities. [Read More ▶]( [Holly Roose meets with Promise Scholar Ramón Ríos to make a weekly study plan.]( [Promises Kept]( A tumultuous path to higher education inspires Promise Scholar program director’s mentorship of more than 500 students. [Read More ▶]( [More News]( UC Santa Barbara In The News [Vice]( [Scientists Are Stuck on an Ice-Locked Ship in the Arctic Due to Coronavirus]( Science lead Dave Siegel of the University of California, Santa Barbara said the team has reached out to various European partners to see if a different ship can be secured. But ultimately, some science might have to be sacrificed for the sake of expediency, since a key goal of the campaign was to provide data in support of an $800-million NASA ocean satellite slated to launch in 2022. [Read More ▶]( [Quanta]( [Why Do Matter Particles Come in Threes? A Physics Titan Weighs In]( “Weinberg’s paper is a bit of lightning in the dark,” said Anthony Zee, a theoretical physicist at the University of California, Santa Barbara. “All of a sudden a titan in the field is suddenly working again on these problems.” [Read More ▶]( [Forbes]( [As COVID-19 Spreads, Mary Barra Needs To Denounce Trump As Bad For Capitalism]( “The whole reason George W. Bush shot up in the polls after 9/11 is that he projected himself as the embodiment of national unity," said Nelson Lichtenstein, a historian at the University of California at Santa Barbara. "Trump just seems incapable of that." [Read More ▶]( [Wired]( [Where Did Plants Come From? This Ancient Algae Offers Clues]( This isn’t entirely surprising, because multicellularity has evolved many times in different lineages. In fact, most experts agree that many of the features in early green algae could have evolved independently more than once in a phenomenon known as convergent evolution. “There are only so many ways to do something,” said Susannah Porter, a biologist at the University of California, Santa Barbara. [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})