Major Gift to REEF Touch-Tank; New Dean of Social Sciences; Tracking Commercial Fishing in Near Real-Time

UC Santa Barbara's Top News & Featured Events [UC Santa Barbara's Top News & Featured Events] Having trouble viewing this email? [Click here to view it online](. Share this: [The UC Santa Barbara Current]( February 27, 2018 Top News [Making Waves]( [School children from Santa Barbara and Ventura counties are frequent visitors to the REEF, where the touch tanks are always a hit.]( Betty Elings Wells' major gift to the REEF will fund improvements and enhance educational outreach programs. [Read more]( [New Dean Takes the Reins]( [Charles R. Hale]( Acclaimed anthropologist Charles R. Hale assumes a new role as the dean of social sciences. [Read more]( [A Global Footprint]( [This map shows fishing activity by vessels broadcasting the automatic identification system.]( Researchers collaborate to track commercial fishing worldwide in near real-time. [Read more]( [more news]( Featured Events [A mass migration]( [Dexter Filkins]( February 28, 2018 The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist will elucidate the complex causes of the world's largest mass migration since 1945. [Gevirtz School Faculty]( [Fast & Curious: ED Talks]( February 28, 2018 The lecture series from the Gevirtz School features brief talks about research and work that is shaping education. [Squirrel Nut Zippers]( [Squirrel Nut Zippers]( March 1, 2018 The band celebrates 20 years of "Hot," their top-charting album of exuberant gin-house swing. [more events]( [ARTS]( | [SCIENCE + TECHNOLOGY]( | [SOCIETY + CULTURE]( | [CAMPUS + COMMUNITY]( | [ATHLETICS]( | [CALENDAR]( [UC Santa Barbara]( Copyright © 2018 The Regents of the University of California. All Rights Reserved.  [fb]( [twitter]( [Vimeo]( [LinkedIn]( [YouTube]( [RSS]( [UC Santa Barbara | Santa Barbara, CA 93106 US](#) This email was sent to {EMAIL}. To ensure that you continue receiving our emails, please add us to your address book or safe list. [manage]( your preferences | [opt out]( using TrueRemove® Got this as a forward? [Sign up]( to receive our future emails.