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UC Santa Barbara's Top News & Featured Events [UC Santa Barbara's Top News & Featured Events] [UC Santa Barbara]( March 23, 2021 Top News [Library Prepares for Limited Reopening]( The library will reopen some study spaces on a reservation-only basis. [Read more about the reopening ▶]( [Georgle Floyd on Black Lives Matter signs at a protest]( [Déjà Black and Blue]( Scholars collaborate to bring perspective to the Black American experience of police aggression as state aggression. [Read more about The Social Justice Handbook Series ▶]( [Doctor examining x-rays]( [Three-Dimensional Disadvantage]( People searching for objects in 3D image stacks are less successful than when searching for the same in single 2D images. [Read more about imaging technology ▶]( [More News]( Featured Events [Alexandra Hui]( [Functional Music, Material Music]( March 31, 2021 Science historian Alexandra Hui talks about the internal studies and large public survey performed by the Edison-Carnegie Music Research Program in development of the Mood Music pamphlet. [Anjali Forber-Pratt]( [Disability Culture in the Academy]( April 1, 2021 A discussion with Anjali Forber-Pratt of Vanderbilt University highlights lived academic ableism experiences and potential solutions. [Allyson Felix Holding Her Gold Medals]( [Allyson Felix]( April 6, 2021 The most decorated track and field Olympian in history shares her experiences with racism and discrimination. [More Events]( UC Santa Barbara In The News [Salon]( [The Biden Administration Increases the Social Cost of Carbon]( A new policy brings back an old approach to tallying the cost of carbon, but critics say it has limitations. [Read More ▶]( [Reuters via Yahoo! News]( [Whale Sightings Aid Quest to Protect Wildlife in Indian Ocean Oasis]( Over two weeks at sea, the scientists spotted pilot whales and spinner dolphins, orcas and more. But not a single sperm whale had crested the choppy waters of the western Indian Ocean. [Read More ▶]( [MarketWatch]( [Protecting the World’s Oceans]( In 2015, palau, a nation of more than 300 coral and volcanic islands in the western Pacific Ocean, expanded on decades of marine conservation to create a 193,000-square-mile protected area encompassing an extraordinary 80% of its ocean waters. [Read More ▶]( [MSN]( [Bottom Trawling in the Ocean is Running the Tap on Earth's Largest Carbon Sink]( Fishing trawlers that drag big nets along the ocean floor potentially release more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere as the world's commercial aviation industry. [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 © 2021 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})