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UC Santa Barbara's Top News & Featured Events [UC Santa Barbara's Top News & Featured Events] [UC Santa Barbara]( March 28, 2023 Top News [The Geek Girls of Big Tech]( A new book by sociology professor France Winddance Twine offers firsthand accounts of inequality in Silicon Valley and centers the experiences of Black and Latinx women. [Read more about her research ▶]( [A blue shirt with a sleeve that reads ]( [Diversifying Higher Education Faculty]( A multi-campus initiative strives to boost diversity within the UC's STEM teaching faculty ranks. [Read more about the effort ▶]( [Alexa Bertola wears a CalTrans hard hat over an aerial view of Henley Gate.]( [A Safer 217]( Caltrans representative Alexa Bertola answers questions about the impending construction project on Highway 217. [Read more about the project ▶]( [More News]( Featured Events [The cover of the book ]( [UCSB Reads 2023 Book Club]( April 5, 2023 A student-led book club centered on UCSB Reads selection “Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design,” by Charles Montgomery, holds its first discussion. [Men protesting prohibition with picket signs that read ]( [The Potent Politics of Weak Brews]( April 6, 2023 Historian Lisa Jacobson details how a coalition of brewers, scientists and labor leaders successfully skirted the 18th Amendment, prompting understandings that influenced how alcohol is regulated and sold in the United States. [Adam Stanović performing Caroline Campea in mostly darknessu]( [The Corwin Series Presents]( April 7, 2023 Adam Stanović, programme director for sound and music at London College of Communication, performs six works, each featuring a unique approach to electroacoustic composition. [More Events]( UC Santa Barbara In The News [Forbes]( [The Dhaka Art Summit Defines The Democratization Art, And What The Art World Can Learn From It]( Art Historian Carole Paul explains invisible fences existed in these infancy stages of art institutions and continue to exist today. Paul is the Director of Museum Studies, History of Art and Architecture at the University of California Santa Barbara and has recently published a collection of scholarly essays on the appearance of museums in the modern era titled, The First Modern Museums of Art: The Birth of An Institution in 18th and Early 19th Century Europe. [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 © 2023 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})