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UC Santa Barbara's Top News & Featured Events [UC Santa Barbara's Top News & Featured Events] [The Current]( February 15, 2024 ▤ Top News [Hương Ngô & Hồng-Ân Trương, ''chân trời foot of the sky,'' 2023. Archival pigment prints, two-way mirrored glass, neon. 240 x 92 x 30 in.]( [Art installation examines Vietnamese refugee history]( At O'Hare International Airport's Terminal 5, art lecturer HÆ°Æ¡ng Ngô and collaborator Hồng-n TrÆ°Æ¡ng reimagine concepts of citizenship and safe passage in a newly commissioned piece. [Read more about Ngô's work]( [Lerone A. Martin]( [Religious scholar to discuss FBI roots in white Christian nationalism]( Lerone A. Martin presents his latest book about the history of the FBI and how the agency policed religion and politics in America, “most notably by going after Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., and attempting to discredit the civil rights movement . . . as a communist subversion.” [Read more about “The Gospel of J. Edgar Hoover”]( [Larry Coldren]( [Laser tech expert wins major materials award]( Larry Coldren, universally recognized as a leader in the field of photonics, wins the prestigious ISCS Heinrich Welker Award. [Read more about his research]( [More News]( ▤ Featured Events [Men playing basketball]( [Men’s Basketball vs Hawai’i]( February 17, 2024 The Gauchos take on the Rainbow Warriors at the Thunderdome. [Storytelling for the Screen: Fancy Dance]( February 20, 2024 A screening of Erica Tremblay's debut feature is followed by a discussion with the writer/director and Lisa Parks, a distinguished professor of film and media studies. [UCSB Middle East Ensemble perform onstage]( [World Music Series: UCSB Middle East Ensemble]( February 21, 2024 Scott Marcus leads a performance of music and dance from a variety of Middle Eastern cultures, performed on traditional instruments, featuring dance by Alexandra King. [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.