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UC Santa Barbara's Top News & Featured Events [UC Santa Barbara's Top News & Featured Events] [ ]( October 3, 2023 ▤ Top News [Bishnupriya Ghosh]( [From HIV-AIDS to COVID-19, scholar Bishnupriya Ghosh illuminates the complexities of living with viruses]( In "The Virus Touch," the global studies professor explores relationships between viruses, humans, animals and the environment to show how various forms of media — from news content to lab test results — create our understanding of epidemics. [Read more about the new book]( [Misha Sra]( [Computer scientist Misha Sra uses AI to make motor skills training more accessible]( “This project focuses on harnessing AI and XR to enhance human physical abilities,” Sra explained. “It is aimed at bringing AI technology out from two-dimensional screens into the real world, offering much needed support and guidance for learning and recovering motor skills.” [Read more about Sra's work]( [Mustafa Suleyman]( [Everyone will have their own AI soon]( Mustafa Suleyman was the head of applied AI at Google before writing his latest book "The Coming Wave..." In a talk on campus, he will discuss challenges to AI and how his latest venture, InflectionAI, is keeping ethics and altruism as part of its goals. [Read more about his appearance]( [More News]( ▤ Featured Events [Chair in the forest]( [Ixiles: Voices from the Shadows of Time]( October 5, 2023 Filmmaker Alejandro M. Flores Aguilar joins Giovanni Batz, of Chicana and Chicano studies, for a screening and discussion of this work in progress that examines the history of Indigenous resistance in the Ixil region of Guatemala. [Lisa Batiashvili]( [Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Lisa Batiashvili & Gautier Capuçon]( October 10, 2023 The award-winning classical stars present an evening of chamber music. [ Teyonah Parris, Jamie Foxx, John Boyega in a frame from ''They Cloned Tyrone'']( [Black Hollywood: They Cloned Tyrone]( October 10, 2023 A discussion with filmmaker Juel Taylor and moderator Mireille Miller-Young, of feminist studies, follows a screening of the sci-fi comedy. [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.