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UC Santa Barbara's Top News & Featured Events [UC Santa Barbara's Top News & Featured Events] [Alternate text]( May 25, 2023 ▤ Top News [ ]( [A biblical villain goes on trial in the darkly comic ‘The Last Days of Judas Iscariot’]( Theater and Dance stages a post-apocalyptic production of Pulitzer Prize winning American playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis’s 2005 play. [Read more about the upcoming performances]( [UC Santa Barbara building]( [Building on their vision — and their legacy — alumni Louise and Stephen Pahl gift the campus $10.5 million for social sciences research in the interest of change]( Their generous support will establish the Pahl Center for the Study of Critical Social Issues in the Social Sciences, where researchers will explore major societal issues using hard data and develop potential solutions based on empirical evidence. [Read more about the Pahl Center]( [asteroid impact]( [Planetary defense project selected for NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts program]( Physics professor Phil Lubin will receive $600,000 over two years to pursue his PI (Pulverize It) project, a planetary defense concept to deflect asteroids or comets. [Read more about the funding]( [More News]( ▤ Featured Events [woman singing ]( [UCSB Jazz Ensemble “Out of Town” Concert]( May 25, 2023 The performance features, and celebrates, graduating students from the campus’ thriving and diverse jazz community. [Special Lecture: Arvind Neelakantan](//info.ia.ucsb.edu/click/64veoh/uj3o4ib/u3iqjjb May 26, 2023 The OpenAI research lead and manager discusses his work on computer embeddings and its application to artificial intelligence. [Goodbye, Snowball]( May 26, 2023 A screening of the film is followed by “Dreaming and Reframing Abolition,” a workshop with director, cinematographer and editor Rasel Ahme. [More Events]( Explore [Arts]( [Science & Technology]( [Society & Culture]( [Campus & Community]( [Events]( [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Instagram]( [Vimeo]( [LinkedIn]( [RSS Feeds]( 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](. Got this as a forward [Sign up]( to receive our future emails. 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.