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UC Santa Barbara's Top News & Featured Events [UC Santa Barbara's Top News & Featured Events] [UC Santa Barbara]( December 15, 2020 Top News [Waterbuck]( [An Alternate Savanna]( Animals are back at Gorongosa National Park after a civil war, but the savanna community doesn’t look quite how it used to. [Read More ▶]( [Soy Fields]( [Success in the Amazon]( A unique public-private initiative has reduced deforestation in the Amazon for soy farming, highlighting opportunities for similar efforts across the tropics. [Read More ▶]( [The Long Reach of Pandemics]( Archaeologists examine the enduring human costs of epidemics and what we might learn from COVID. [Read More ▶]( [More News]( Featured Events [Sameer Panya]( [Sameer Panya]( January 25, 2020 The author and professor of Asian American studies speaks with Terence Keel of UCLA as part of UCSB Reads 2021. [Brandon Stansell]( [Three Chords and a Lie]( January 26, 2020 Director Trent Atkinson and musician Brandon Stansell discuss their documentary, which looks at issues of representation and diversity in the country music industry. [Isabel Wilkerson]( [Isabel Wilkerson]( January 26, 2020 The Pulitzer Prize-winning author examines the unspoken caste system that has shaped America, and how our lives continue to be defined by a hierarchy of human divisions. [More Events]( [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})