Your Tuesday News Briefing

UC Santa Barbara's Top News & Featured Events [UC Santa Barbara's Top News & Featured Events] [UC Santa Barbara]( November 24, 2020 Top News [World Passport]( [Race, Global Migration and Precarity]( A new Sawyer Seminar will explore the intersections of identity, migration and inequality in California, France and South Korea. [Read More ▶]( [Signal Detection]( [Boosted Signal]( A novel analytic approach enhances nuclear magnetic resonance signal detection in previously ‘invisible’ regions. [Read More ▶]( [Border cells moving through a drosophila egg chamber]( [Minuscule Migrations]( Scientists unravel how tissue geometry influences the movement of cells through the body, with potential applications in cancer research. [Read More ▶]( [More News]( Featured Events [Charmaine Chua]( [Global Studies Colloquium]( November 25, 2020 Charmaine Chua discusses fast circulation, slow violence and decolonial struggle along the Trans-Pacific supply chain. [Hailu and Coley]( [Meseret Hailu & Brooke Coley]( December 1, 2020 The Arizona State University professors investigate the experiences of Black immigrant women in undergraduate STEM programs. [Whale Rider Poster]( [Whale Rider]( December 2, 2020 Niki Caro’s 2003 family film about destiny and leadership in a Maori village screens at Goleta’s West Wind Drive-In. [More Events]( Campus Announcements [Open Enrollment]( Open Enrollment, the period when faculty and staff members have an opportunity to review their health plans and make choices regarding their 2021 benefits, ends at 5 p.m. today. [Read More ▶]( UC Santa Barbara In The News [The New York Times]( [When Sharks Turned Up at Their Beach, They Called in Drones]( A goal of the SharkEye project is to one day produce automated “shark reports” for beachgoers to help them gauge levels of risk. [Read More ▶]( [Scientific American]( [Harsh Droughts Can Actually Start Over Oceans]( Similar to hurricanes, they can hit land, but their slow pace could improve drought forecasts. [Read More ▶]( [Los Angeles Times]( [The fossil fuel industry wants you to believe it’s good for people of color]( The letter to Mexico’s energy minister offered a glowing review of a fossil fuel project in Baja California. Writing in July, three U.S. governors and the chair of the Ute Indian Tribe praised the Energía Costa Azul project — which was seeking approval from the Mexican government — as “one of the most promising [liquefied natural gas] export facilities on the Pacific Coast.” [Read More ▶]( [LA Weekly]( [CA State Schools Receive $30 Million to Research Cannabis Impacts]( The Bureau of Cannabis Control announced late last week that it has awarded $30 million in public university research grant funding to universities across California to study the state’s legal cannabis market. [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})