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UC Santa Barbara's Top News & Featured Events [UC Santa Barbara's Top News & Featured Events] [UC Santa Barbara]( November 3, 2022 Top News [A Renewed Focus]( A water purification collaboration involving UC Santa Barbara researchers receives a $12 million grant from the Department of Energy. [Read more about the efforts to purify water ▶]( [Ian Bremmer sits next to The Power of Crisis book cover]( [Finding Positivity in Crisis]( In an upcoming Arts & Lectures event, political scientist and risk expert Ian Bremmer discusses how to respond to global challenges. [Read more about “The Power of Crisis” ▶]( [The Trash Wheel sits on a river]( [Catching Plastic at Its Source]( A ‘trash wheel’ launched recently in Panama is designed to capture plastic pollution in rivers before it reaches the ocean. [Read more about the project ▶]( [More News]( Featured Events [Trombonist sits on a rock]( [Jazz in the Bowl]( November 4, 2022 Jon Nathan directs the UCSB Jazz Combos in a performance of jazz standards, original songs and arrangements by some of today’s most innovative composers. [Stefano Soatto wears a dark suit with a blue tie]( [Stefano Soatto]( November 4, 2022 The Center for Responsible Machine Learning presents the computer scientist and vice president for AI labs at Amazon Web Services in the talk, “Learnable Knowledge and Information in Deep Neural Networks.” [Jeneda and Clayson Benally on horseback holding a guitar]( [Sihasin]( November 4, 2022 Award-winning bass, drums and vocal duo Jeneda and Clayson Benally, of the (Dine) Navajo Nation in Arizona, bridge folk, rock, world, pop and punk with traditional Navajo sounds. [More Events]( UC Santa Barbara In The News [Washington Post]( [Here’s exactly how your diet affects the planet, a landmark study finds]( The study published in the journal Nature Sustainability — which examined nearly 99 percent of all food production on land and sea as reported to the United Nations in 2017 — offers a new way to evaluate what to eat and how to feed the world, according to its lead author, Ben Halpern, a professor at the University of California at Santa Barbara. [Read more about Halpern's work ▶]( [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})