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UC Santa Barbara’s Top News & Featured Events [UC Santa Barbara’s Top News & Featured Events] [The Current]( March 5, 2024 ▤ Top News [Chitons on the seafloor]( [Unraveling the mystery of chiton visual systems]( Rebecca Varney of the Department of Ecology, Evolution & Marine Biology helps to reveal the surprising origins behind mollusk eyes, shedding light on evolutionary processes. [Read more about the findings]( [Silhouettes of heads containing metal gears face each other]( [A holistic framework for studying social emotions]( Multiple psychological and neurocognitive processes might be acting simultaneously during social interactions, says cognitive neuroscientist Hongbo Yu, requiring a framework that can analyze these emotions along different dimensions. [Read more about the three-level analysis]( [A crowd at a Free Hong Kong protest]( [Expert on contemporary Chinese capitalism to speak at East Asia Center]( Focusing on Hong Kong under Chinese rule and two decades of protests culminating in a mass uprising in 2019, sociologist Ching Kwan Lee will give the second annual lecture on U.S.-China relations. [Read more about the event]( [More News]( ▤ Featured Events [The Performing Arts Theater]( [The Crucible]( March 5-10, 2024 Lisa Benavides directs Arthur Miller’s classic play at the Performing Arts Theater. [Christof Koch wears a red jacket]( [Christof Koch]( March 7, 2024 The neuroscientist best known for his studies and writings exploring the basis of consciousness speaks in this SAGE Center Lecture. [A woman with a megaphone rallies a crowd]( [Center for Feminist Futures Open House]( March 8, 2024 Dean Charlie Hale and Interim Graduate Dean Leila Rupp join the center’s director, Professor Jigna Desai, to share its mission, vision and initiatives in celebration of International Women’s Day. [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.