Your Tuesday News Briefing

UC Santa Barbara's Top News & Featured Events [UC Santa Barbara's Top News & Featured Events] [UC Santa Barbara]( October 4, 2022 Top News [Too Much Information]( The Interdisciplinary Humanities Center's 2022-2023 public events series examines life in the Information Age. [Read more about the year-long program ▶]( [Person in black jacket adds bottle to can full of plastic bottles]( [A Plastics Recycling Breakthrough]( Scientists develop a method for recycling plastic into high-value plastic molecules, which could reduce greenhouse gas emissions. [Read more about the new process ▶]( [Person stands with arms akimbo as the world in various forms affect the ring]( [With a Probing Eye]( A new interdisciplinary institute aims to revisit the foundations — and assumptions — of science. [Read more about The Foundations Institute ▶]( [More News]( Featured Events [The coastline from KSN Rancho Marino Reserve]( [Natural Reserve System Fall 2022 Seminar Series]( October 4, 2022 Weekly through Nov. 15, the NRS will feature one of UCSB's seven reserves, its director, and one speaker, to talk about ongoing research, conservation, art or community engagement at the reserve. First up: KSN Rancho Marino Reserve. [DakhaBrakha]( [DakhaBrakha]( October 6, 2022 At the crossroads of folklore and theater, the quartet from Kyiv weaves ancient Ukrainian folk melodies with indie rock, pop, hip hop, the avant-garde and traditional instrumentation. [Women's Soccer player on the field kicking a soccer ball]( [UC San Diego vs. UC Santa Barbara]( October 6, 2022 The Gaucho women’s soccer team helps kick off Breast Cancer Awareness Month when they face the Tritons at Harder Stadium. [More Events]( UC Santa Barbara In The News [TIME]( [Time100 Next]( In August, President Joe Biden signed historic legislation to address the climate emergency, taking action to significantly lower emissions by 2030. Leah Stokes, a political-­science professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, was a power­house contributor to this effort. Leah is a thoughtful leader, researcher, expert communicator, and organizer all rolled into one dynamic—and very fun—person. [Read More ▶]( [The New York Times]( [Unraveling One of Rock’s Deepest Mysteries: Les Rallizes Dénudés]( David Novak, an associate professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the author of “Japanoise: Music at the Edge of Circulation,” describes the band’s influence by referring to an oft-misquoted remark by Brian Eno that relatively few people bought the Velvet Underground’s albums at the time, but each of them (seemingly) formed a band. [Read More ▶]( [U.S. Department of Energy]( [UCSB Researchers Look to Engineer Next-Generation Long-Wavelength GaN-based LEDs]( Achieving high efficiency in LEDs is all about maximizing the number of carriers (electrons and holes) that produce light (radiative recombination) and minimizing all parasitic recombination processes. These parasitic recombination processes include Shockley-Read-Hall (SRH) and Trap-Assisted Auger Recombination (TAAR), both of which are being studied extensively at UCSB with the support of the DOE. [Read More ▶]( [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 © 2022 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})