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UC Santa Barbara's Top News & Featured Events [UC Santa Barbara's Top News & Featured Events] [UC Santa Barbara]( September 29, 2022 Top News [Delight in the Arts]( The fall quarter offers a stellar line-up of exhibitions, film screenings, theater, dance and more. [Read more about the new season ▶]( [An animated Helen Hansma presents a strand of DNA between sheets of Mica on an easel behind her]( [Life Imitates Mica]( Biophysicist emerita Helen Hansma outlines her hypothesis of how life began on Earth. [Read more about how mica may have helped primitive life evolve ▶]( [People row a boat along the Guaporé-Itenez River with the sun low in the sky]( [Fulbright Amazonia]( Anthropologist Jeffrey Hoelle is selected to lead an international research initiative in the Amazon. [Read more about the collaborative project ▶]( [More News]( Featured Events [You are Invited OPEN HOUSE text on teal background]( [IHC Open House]( September 29, 2022 Meet new humanities faculty, Interdisciplinary Humanities Center fellows and staff members while learning about “Too Much Information,” the IHC’s 2022-23 public events series. [Women's Volleyball Player ready to strike volleyball with bleachers behind her]( [Cal Poly vs. UC Santa Barbara]( September 30, 2022 The Gaucho women’s volleyball squad takes on Cal Poly in "Blue Out" night at the Thunderdome. [Ivan Law, Karis Lee, Milutin Radulović, Milena Petković, Slobodanka Bobana Dabović Đurić, Dariush Derakhshani]( [Music of Friendship Concert]( September 30, 2022 Students Ivan Law and Karis Lee, with guests Milutin Radulović and Milena Petković, perform works by Haydn, Dvořák, Slobodanka Bobana Dabović Đurić and Ph.D. candidate Dariush Derakhshani. [More Events]( UC Santa Barbara In The News [Wired]( [A Wheel Made of ‘Odd Matter’ Spontaneously Rolls Uphill]( Coulais and Vitelli developed their odd modules without mimicking any specific living system, so it’s an open question whether biology has made use of the same emergent dynamics. M. Cristina Marchetti, a theoretical physicist at the University of California, Santa Barbara, called the result “very interesting,” and said the next step to understanding its possible role in biology is to see how well the behavior persists in a noisy environment like that of a living cell. [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 © 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})