UC Santa Barbara's Top News & Featured Events

October 9, 2025

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Daniel Blumenthal

Chip-scale cold atom and trapped ion experiments can unleash the power of quantum science in the field

Researchers are working to bring highly sensitive quantum experiments outside of the laboratory.

 

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A mudslide

Eckart Meiburg receives NSF award to study sediment dynamics behind mudslides and erosion

The three-year, $330,000 award will support transformative research into how small-scale particle interactions influence large-scale environmental dynamics.

 

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Satellite view of El Niño Southern Oscillation

A hard look at geoengineering reveals global risks

Scientists find that cloud seeding could disrupt El Niño, underscoring the need for caution in climate interventions.

 

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Shirley Lim

Extended Longevity

Thursday, October 9

The webinar with emeritus professor Shirley Lim includes a reading of two poems on “growing old young” and offers takeaways on how to be “psychologically well adapted in later life.” 

Elizabeth Gilbert

Elizabeth Gilbert

Saturday, October 11

The author of bestsellers including “Eat, Pray, Love” and “Big Magic” discusses her latest, “All the Way to the River.”

Scott Warren

Scott Warren

Thursday, October 16

The humanitarian aid worker discusses legal and moral dimensions of sanctuary and how place-based arguments shape the evolving relationship between faith, law and humanitarian aid.

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