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UC Santa Barbara's Top News & Featured Events [UC Santa Barbara's Top News & Featured Events] [UC Santa Barbara]( February 15, 2022 Top News [Giving Rise to Hope]( Social entrepreneur Amanda Nguyen talks “Hopeanomics” in a virtual, free event for Arts & Lectures. [Read more about the civil rights activist ▶]( [Out-of-Focus Photo of Refrigerators at a Convinience Store]( [The Benefits of Beverage Policies]( A study of the environmental impacts of beverage sales and consumption offers insights for initiatives gaining popularity across the UC system and nationwide. [Read more about the Healthy Beverage Initiative ▶]( [UCSB Lagoon]( [Invaluable Contributions]( Four alumni have been elected to join the campus’s Foundation Board of Trustees. [Read more about the new trustees ▶]( [More News]( Featured Events [Human brain made up of circuits]( [2022 Mellichamp Mind & Machine Initiative Summit]( February 16-17, 2022 Invited speakers will explore how insights about the architectures and wiring of brains can inform AI advances, and how modern AI tools can enable new scientific analyses and knowledge about brain function. [Glenda Marisol Flores]( [Shaping the Way America’s Children are Educated]( February 22, 2022 UC Irvine Chicano/Latino studies scholar Glenda Marisol Flores examines the role of Latina teachers in majority-minority schools. [Elizabeth Pérez]( [Decolonizing the Orishas: Harmonia Rosales & the Un-Whitewashing of Black Atlantic Divinity]( February 24, 2022 Elizabeth Pérez (religious studies) discusses how the art of Harmonia Rosales rejects colonial conventions for depicting the West African and Afro-Diasporic deities called orishas. [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 © 2022 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})