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UC Santa Barbara's Top News & Featured Events [UC Santa Barbara's Top News & Featured Events] [UC Santa Barbara]( March 9, 2021 Top News [jaguar in greenery]( [More Than Human]( Anthropologists argue that centering the Anthropocene on Homo sapiens limits our understanding of the environment. [Read about the new paper ▶]( [David Valentine ]( [A Master of Many Elements]( For his work in biogeochemistry, Earth science professor David Valentine has been elected a fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology. [Read about the distinction ▶]( [Igor Mezić]( [Solving the Unsolvable]( The Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics has awarded professor Igor Mezić the J.D. Crawford Prize in recognition of his advancement of the Koopman Operator Theory. [Read about the award ▶]( [More News]( Featured Events [Chris Thile]( [Chris Thile]( March 9, 2021 The music of this MacArthur Fellow and Grammy-winning mandolin virtuoso and vocalist spans genres from classical to rock, jazz and bluegrass. [Ricado Jacobs]( [Ricardo Jacobs]( March 10, 2021 The assistant professor of global studies gives the talk, "Rethinking the Agrarian Question in the 21st Century," seeking to shift our analytic lens away from the mechanistic and linear. [Chamber Players]( [Corwin Series Concert]( March 12, 2021 "Synchresis – the Alchemy of Visual Music" explores the fusion between sound and the moving image, guiding listeners through the merger of diverse visual and musical universes. [More Events]( UC Santa Barbara In The News [Slate.com]( [How Do You Put a Price on the Apocalypse?]( To turn the tide against climate change, on the day of his inauguration President Joe Biden signed an executive order instituting a raft of policy changes and initiatives. One directed his team to reassess the social cost of carbon. “The social cost of carbon is incredibly important because it enables policymakers or other decision-makers to put the costs and benefits of any climate policy on a level playing field,” said Tamma Carleton, an environmental economist at the University of California–Santa Barbara. [Read the Slate article ▶]( [Seattle Times]( [This Shark Is the Ocean's Biggest Glowing Vertebrate]( Bioluminescence is a complex trait that has evolved independently more than 90 times in a diverse array of organisms, including bacteria, fungi, fireflies, fish, squid and jellyfish, explained Emily Lau, a graduate student at the University of California, Santa Barbara, who led a 2020 review of the evolution of bioluminescence and was not involved in Mallefet’s study. [Read the Seattle Times article ▶]( [Arts]( | [Science + Technology]( | [Society + Culture]( | [Campus + Community]( | [Athletics]( | [Calendar]( [UC Santa Barbara]( Connect with Us: [FB icon]( [Twitter icon]( [Vimeo icon]( [LinkedIn icon]( [YouTube icon]( [RSS icon]( Copyright © 2021 The Regents of the University of California. All Rights Reserved. Share this email: [Email]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [LinkedIn]( 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]( using TrueRemove® 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.]({EMAIL})