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UC Santa Barbara's Top News & Featured Events, June 13, 2023 [UC Santa Barbara's Top News & Featured Events, June 13, 2023] [Alternate text]( June 13, 2023 ▤ Top News [First-generation graduate Anabel Rocha Ambrosio builds a better life with education as the foundation]( The Promise Scholar is graduating as a double major and is next set to join the university’s intensive Teacher Education Program on a full ride. [Read more about her story]( [Oil and gas extraction infrastructure in the Permian Basin]( [MethaneMapper is poised to solve the problem of underreported methane emissions]( Researchers use artificial intelligence to develop a tool capable of detecting the second most abundant greenhouse gas, methane. [Read more about their method]( [Leeta's Kira Wyckhoff (left), and Linus Kautzsch (right), with materials professor Ram Seshadri (center)]( [Leeta wins UCSB’s 24th Annual New Venture Competition]( Materials Ph.D. students Kira Wyckhoff and Linus Kautzsch took top honors for their startup idea: a more sustainable manufacturing process for lithium-ion battery materials. [Read more about the technology]( [More News]( ▤ Featured Events [NCEAS Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Justice 2023 Online Seminar Series]( June 14, 2023 Researchers Sara Bombaci, Sara Cannon and Grace Wu will discuss diversity and inclusion in environmental data science. [shark ]( [Shark Night]( June 15, 2023 The Marine Science Institute hosts a free event celebrating shark science, featuring UCSB shark research and an interactive shark experience at REEF, the campus’s teaching aquarium. [tree in water ]( [GreenScreen 2023 Student Film Premiere]( June 15, 2023 The hands-on, project-based environmental media production program showcases four student-produced films, all centered around eco-consciousness [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.