Your Thursday News Briefing

UC Santa Barbara's Top News & Featured Events [UC Santa Barbara's Top News & Featured Events] [The Current]( February 8, 2024 ▤ Top News [Kiribati fishers]( [Reinforcing the diverse ways people access seafood can ensure healthy communities in the face of change]( Understanding and bolstering existing pathways for acquiring seafood — as opposed to creating new programs and processes — can promote food system resilience in the Pacific Islands. [Read more about the strategies]( [Logan Asperian, Lauren Barley, Macielle Villaseñor, Rachel Burnett and Vincent Cuenco off the coast of Santa Cruz Island]( [Coastal Media Project student documentaries to screen at Santa Barbara International Film Festival]( Joining the star-stacked big-budget features common to the festival, now in its 39th year, the 15-minute documentaries “841” and “The Salt on Our Skin” were conceptualized, shot, edited and screened in nine weeks last summer. [Read more about the films]( [Hands hold a cardboard cutout of a house]( [Is housing a human right?]( The 2024 Arthur N. Rupe Great Debate examines the economics, politics and social issues around the question of housing as a human right. [Read more about the Rupe Debate]( [More News]( ▤ Featured Events [The Blue Note Quintet]( [Blue Note Records 85th Anniversary Celebration]( February 8, 2024 Pianist Gerald Clayton, former music director of the Monterey Jazz Festival on Tour, has organized a new ensemble to express the heart and soul of jazz, Blue Note style. [Surf against an upside-down beachfront skyline]( [California Against the Sea: Visions for Our Vanishing Coastline]( February 8, 2024 Los Angeles Times reporter Rosanna Xia and director of the Ocean and Coastal Policy Center, Charles Lester, discuss sea level rise and the challenges looming over the California coast. [The San Miguel Outdoor Stage]( [World Music Series: Irish, Scottish & Celtic Music with The Decent Folk]( February 14, 2024 This Santa Barbara-based band performs raucous Irish ballads, songs, jigs and reels. [More Events]( ▤ UC Santa Barbara in the News [Discover Magazine]( • January 25, 2024 [Our Human Ancestors Started Hauling Fish Out of the Water 2 Million Years Ago]( “No one ‘invented’ fishing,” writes Brian Fagan, a professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, in Fishing: How the Sea Fed Civilization. “Everyone knew fish were there for the taking at specific times and places.” 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.