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UC Santa Barbara‘s Top News & Featured Events [UC Santa Barbara‘s Top News & Featured Events] [Alternate text]( April 9, 2024 ▤ Top News [Trevor Auldridge-Reveles sits on stairs]( [Why do kids outperform their parents in this rural California town? A sociologist looks for answers.]( Trevor Auldridge-Reveles spent 13 months in Dixon to investigate the remarkable levels of upward social mobility among teenagers from the small agricultural town between San Francisco and Sacramento. [Read more about the project]( [Human brain dissolving into floating particles]( [Researchers uncover a potential method for interrupting the misfolding of tau protein that underlies neurodegenerative disease]( New molecular-level insights on the way pathological tau spreads could lead toward “a therapeutic intervention potentially capable of disaggregating tau or preventing its aggregation.” [Read more about the study]( [Kacie Ring onstage]( [A new champion is crowned — and moves on to compete systemwide]( For her 3-minute research talk, “Healthy Forests, Healthy Humans,” Kacie Ring, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology, earned the title 2024 UCSB Grad Slam Champion. [Read more about the finals]( [More News]( ▤ Featured Events [UCSB GIVE DAY 04-11-24]( [Give Day 2024]( April 11, 2024 Communal, comprehensive and a little competitive — Give Day is a 36-hour sprint to raise support for campus. Join the celebration by sharing memories and photos on social media or supporting a campus area close to your heart. [Charmaine Chua]( [Charmaine Chua]( April 11, 2024 The 2023-2024 Plous Award recipient will give the lecture, “Breaking Our (Supply) Chains: Anti-colonial Resistance in a Just-In-Time World.” [CCS Open Studios Flyer]( [Open Studios at CCS: A UCSB Reads 2024 Event]( April 13, 2024 Held in conjunction with UCSB Reads, which this year selected the book “Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us,” CCS students in book arts, sculpture and painting programs hold open studios. [More Events]( ▤ UC Santa Barbara in the News [Los Angeles Times]( • April 5, 2024 [A big year for wildflowers in Southern California — just not poppies. Why?]( The timing of the rain, a plant’s growth strategy and regional differences affect which plants flourish in a given year, said Joan Dudney, an associate professor of global change ecology at UC Santa Barbara. 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.