Your Tuesday News Briefing

UC Santa Barbara's Top News & Featured Events [UC Santa Barbara's Top News & Featured Events] [UC Santa Barbara]( April 13, 2021 Top News [His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama]( [Creating Hope]( An Arts & Lectures initiative aims to foster connection, compassion and positive change. [Read more about the initiative ▶]( [Cells early in development]( [Living Foams]( Researchers uncover how cells control the physical state of embryonic tissues. [Read more about the findings ▶]( [The Fight of a Lifetime]( Disability rights advocate Judith Heumann, who worked in both the Clinton and Obama administrations, will be in conversation via Zoom. [Read more about Judith ▶]( [More News]( Featured Events [Moshin Hamid]( [Moshin Hamid]( April 16, 2021 The Pakistan-born, internationally bestselling author of “The Reluctant Fundamentalist” appears in a virtual conversation with Pico Iyer. [Dock on a Lake]( [Embracing Ecological Uncertainty through Narrative]( April 19, 2021 English scholar Sowon Park leads a discussion with Marco Caracciolo of Ghent University in Belgium, who argues that literary narrative has an important role to play in cultivating readers’ ability to live with uncertainty. [Ephrat Asherie]( [Ephrat Asherie]( April 20, 2021 Trained in ballet and modern dance, the Israel native leads her company of seven dancers and four musicians in a performance set to a mix of early 20th century romantic music and popular Afro-Brazilian rhythms. [More Events]( UC Santa Barbara In The News [Politico]( [Black Women and the Voting Rights Backlash]( Before record turnout in Georgia helped Joe Biden beat Donald Trump and the Democrats win the narrowest majority in the Senate, Black women in the state had been working tirelessly to expand voting rights for decades. [Read More ▶]( [Los Angeles Time via Yahoo!]( [UC Explains Admissions Decisions in a Record Application Year of Much Heartbreak, Some Joy]( The Burbank mother knew her high school senior would have a tough time competing for a freshman seat at a University of California campus in a year of record-shattering applications — more than 200,000 students were vying for about 46,000 spots. Still, she thought her daughter — with a 4.3 GPA, eight AP and honors courses and a host of extracurricular activities — would have a shot. [Read More ▶]( [The Atlantic]( [The Nature You See in Documentaries Is Beautiful and False]( It’s late afternoon, late pandemic, and I’m watching a new nature documentary in bed, after taking the daintiest of hits from a weed pen. The show is called A Perfect Planet, and it is narrated by Sir David Attenborough. [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})