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UC Santa Barbara's Top News & Featured Events [UC Santa Barbara's Top News & Featured Events] [UC Santa Barbara]( November 8, 2022 Top News [A dazzling play of colors highlights Southern California’s long lost clam.]( [A Needle in a Coastal Haystack]( A tiny species known only from fossils is found alive in the tidepools of Santa Barbara. [Read more about the rediscovered clam ▶]( [The venus flytrap is a quintessential mixotroph, obtaining nutrients through photosynthesis as well as predation.]( [Mixing Up Metabolism]( Researchers investigate how microbes that can both eat and photosynthesize might evolve in a changing environment. [Read more about mixotrophs ▶]( [The Native American Opportunity Plan]( [Awareness and Access]( The UC's Native American Opportunity Plan covers in-state tuition and fees for members of Native American Indian and Alaska Native tribes. [Read more about the plan ▶]( [More News]( Featured Events [Clarence Barlow]( Tuesday, November 8, 2022 The former Corwin Chair of Composition speaks about the compositions he completed in the years following his departure from UCSB. [Satyajit Ray’s The Hero (Nayak)]( [Big Screen: The Hero]( Wednesday, November 9, 2022 The Carsey-Wolf Center screens Satyajit Ray's 1966 critical hit, celebrated for its thoughtful meditations on art, celebrity and aging. [Women's Basketball]( [Pepperdine vs. UC Santa Barbara]( Thursday, November 10, 2022 The women's basketball team takes on the Waves in Fansgiving at the Thunderdome. [More Events]( UC Santa Barbara In The News [The Wall Street Journal]( [Robots? Some Companies Find Only Humans Can Do the Job]( The abandoned tests highlight the difficulties in balancing the costs of robots against their usefulness, said Matt Beane, an assistant professor in the technology management program at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Robots are still prone to messing up basic tasks and often require supervision in fluid environments like shop floors or sidewalks, Prof. Beane said. Their success in public settings has been largely limited to high-margin businesses in contained, predictable spaces—delivering room service at luxury hotels or mixing cocktails in bars, for example—where robots are often novelties for which companies can charge extra, he said. [Read more about workplace automation ▶]( [National Science Foundation]( [Experiments in space will deliver benefits on Earth]( Another experiment led by Yangying Zhu, assistant professor of chemical engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara, seeks to find a new method to actively control bubbles and droplets by exploiting liquids whose surface tension can be changed with light. This research has the potential for a wide range of terrestrial applications, including improving the efficiency of power plants that produce most of the electricity in the U.S., heating and cooling of buildings, desalination and distillation. [Read more about Zhu'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})