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UC Santa Barbara's Top News [UC Santa Barbara's Top News] [UC Santa Barbara]( September 17, 2020 Top News [Infected and Healthy Individuals Represented with Pegs]( [Silent Spread]( A surveillance study reveals how COVID-19 can travel silently through a community via asymptomatic carriers. [Read More ▶]( [Matt Beane]( [Shining a Light on Shadow Learning]( Matt Beane receives the Best Paper of the Year Award for his article on how surgical trainees are impacted by technology. [Read More ▶]( [Choosing LEAN]( [Collaboration, Empowerment and Learning]( The Letters & Science information technology process innovation team encourages digital transformation. [Read More ▶]( [More News]( Campus Announcements [New Police Chief Appointed]( Alex Yao will join UC Santa Barbara’s police department as chief of police in the early part of fall quarter [Read More ▶]( UC Santa Barbara In The News [BBC]( [Plastic pollution: Washed clothing's synthetic mountain of ‘fluff’]( US scientists estimate it to be 5.6 million tonnes since we first started wearing those polyester and nylon garments in a big way in the 1950s. Just over half this mass - 2.9 million tonnes - has likely ended up in our rivers and seas. That's the equivalent of seven billion fleece jackets, the researchers say. [Read More ▶]( [CNBC]( [Why Amazon warehouses and Tesla auto plants will not go 100% robot any time soon]( “Excessive automation at Tesla was a mistake,” Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted back in 2018 amid electric vehicle manufacturing struggles. “Humans are underrated.” [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})