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UC Santa Barbara's Top News & Featured Events [UC Santa Barbara's Top News & Featured Events] [UC Santa Barbara]( October 13, 2022 Top News [Making It Personal]( The university receives two major awards to bolster STEM programs at Hispanic Serving Institutions. [Read more about the grants ▶]( [Victoria Diaz, Kaela Farrise, Humberto Flores; bottom row: Fabián Pavón, Kendall Rallins]( [Freedom to Focus]( Racial Justice Fellows receive five years of funding to pursue research and earn graduate degrees. [Read more about the awardees ▶]( [A shelf from the Lifting the Veil exhibit]( [The Old Roots of New Age]( A new exhibit explores how once-obscure beliefs spread through publishing and pop culture. [Read more about “Lifting the Veil” ▶]( [More News]( Featured Events [A tattoo of a tattooed man writing]( [Make a Poem Cry]( October 13, 2022 Kenneth E. Hartman and Luis J. Rodríguez discuss their anthology of creative writing from one of California’s high-security prisons and how the project makes visible the experience of incarceration. [A group of youths stand outside of a waffle shop]( [La Manplesa: An Uprising Remembered]( October 18, 2022 A screening of the documentary about a protest in one of Washington D.C.’s first barrios is followed by a discussion with poets Quique Avilés and Sami Miranda, filmmaker Ellie Walton and English professor Ben Olguín. [Dan Conroy-Beam wears a blue shirt and glasses outside]( [Profs @ the Pub]( October 19, 2022 Dan Conroy-Beam, recipient of the 2022–2023 Harold J. Plous Award, analyzes how people evaluate potential romantic partners and navigate their mating markets and relationships. [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})