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UC Santa Barbara’s Top News & Featured Events [UC Santa Barbara’s Top News & Featured Events] [Alternate text]( April 25, 2024 ▤ Top News [Alternate text]( [A prestigious career honor for two elite engineers]( Professors Beth Pruitt and M. Scott Shell have been named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. [Read more about their research]( [UC Santa Barbara Library]( [New grant supports creation of UC network of open source program offices]( The campus will receive $328,942 of an overall award of $1.85 million from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation intended to promote open source research, teaching and public service. [Read more about the grant]( [Alternate text]( [From rental listings to dispute resolution, housing officer Jennifer Ja Birchim focuses on student support]( The long-term University and Community Housing Services staffer helps students create and maintain stable and comfortable living situations. [Read more about Birchim's work]( [More News]( ▤ Featured Events [Galan Trio]( April 25, 2024 The Corwin Concert Series presents Galan Trio’s “Kinesis,” a survey on the music of contemporary American composers in an original, multifaceted concert program. [Ballet dancer]( [Deep River]( April 26, 2024 Master choreographer Alonzo King’s newest creation uses spiritual music from Black and Jewish traditions alongside original compositions by Jason Moran to assert the power of hope in the face of seemingly impossible odds. [Black Hollywood: Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes]( April 30, 2024 Director Sam Pollard joins moderator Wendy Eley Jackson of film and media studies for a post-screening discussion of the film and of his remarkable career as a documentary filmmaker. [More Events]( ▤ UC Santa Barbara in the News NPR • Apr 23, 2024 [Talks for a plastic pollution treaty are stalling. Could the U.S. be doing more?]( "I don't think it's an understatement to say that where we're headed at right now with progress in negotiations is towards failure. And if there's one country that I think is responsible for that, I think it's the United States," says Douglas McCauley, a professor of environmental science at University of California, Santa Barbara, who has consulted with the U.S. State Department about the treaty and is attending the talks in Ottawa. 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.