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UC Santa Barbara’s Top News & Featured Events [UC Santa Barbara’s Top News & Featured Events] [The Current]( May 7, 2024 ▤ Top News [Jeffrey Stewart]( [Historian Jeffrey Stewart elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences for his work in the visual arts]( The Black Studies professor, who won a Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for his acclaimed biography of Alain Locke, brings to 49 the number of UCSB faculty that have been named fellows of the academy. [Read more about the achievement]( [People in jumpsuits work on solar cells]( [UCSB pioneers a low-energy process for high-performance solar cells]( Researchers have developed a method for producing high-quality perovskite films, offering a promising alternative to conventional silicon solar cells. [Read more about the innovation]( [A mother nurses her baby]( [Researchers find that a new mother’s immune status varies with her feeding strategy]( A first-of-its-kind study demonstrates that certain inflammatory proteins peak at different times of day, correlating with whether new mothers breastfeed, pump or formula-feed their babies. [Read more about what they learned]( [More News]( ▤ Featured Events [Dina Gilio-Whitaker]( [Dina Gilio-Whitaker]( May 8, 2024 In the Environmental Studies Program’s 40th Annual Manley Lecture, the award-winning author, scholar and activist gives the talk “Decolonizing and Indigenizing Environmental Justice.” [The logo for the Economic Forecast Project]( [2024 Economic Forecast Project Summit]( May 9, 2024 The annual Santa Barbara County Economic Summit will feature expert presentations on the state of the economy and policy in Santa Barbara and California, and a panel moderated by EFP Director Peter Rupert. [Lindsay Watson]( [Storytelling for the Screen: The Wind and the Reckoning]( May 9, 2024 A screening of the film based on historical events is followed by a discussion featuring producer and alum Angela Laprete, actor Lindsay Watson and moderator Tyler Morgenstern of the Carsey-Wolf Center. [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.