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UC Santa Barbara's Top News [UC Santa Barbara's Top News] September 20, 2023 ▤ Top News [Children’s drawings illustrate the hurt imparted by policies of family separation]( “When a child is separated from a parent, it impacts every facet of the child’s life in emotional, physical and financial ways,” said Silvia Rodriguez Vega, an assistant professor of Chicana and Chicano studies, whose new book considers hundreds of drawings by children living on the American side of the U.S.-Mexico border. [Read more about ‘Drawing Deportation’]( [Ken Kosik wears a knit cap sitting in his lab]( [A peek inside the quickening race to understand, treat — and even cure — Alzheimer’s disease]( Neuroscientist Kenneth Kosik will detail the current and future direction of Alzheimer's research in a free public talk at the Music Academy in Montecito. [Read more about the special event]( [Bicycles parked in front of the Interactive Learning Pavilion at UC Santa Barbara]( [From impact to academics to outcomes, UC Santa Barbara ranks among the nation’s top universities]( In multiple rankings across an array of metrics, UC Santa Barbara continues to place in the upper echelons of higher education. [Read more about the rankings]( [More News]( 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.