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UC Santa Barbara's Top News & Featured Events [UC Santa Barbara's Top News & Featured Events] [Alternate text]( March 7, 2024 ▤ Top News [Nelson Lichtenstein]( [Historian Nelson Lichtenstein: Clinton betrayed progressives, capitulated to the right]( Lichtenstein’s latest book examines the former president’s expansive agenda, revealing why it was such ‘a fabulous failure’ and why its demise still haunts us today. [Read more about Clinton’s rightward shift]( [Air pollution in China](   [Clearing the air reduces suicide rates]( Tamma Carleton and Peng Zhang teamed with researchers in Xanghai and Beijing to examine the effects of China’s recent crackdown on air pollution on suicide rates across the country. [Read more about their findings](   [Tamara Afifi and Cynthia Stohl]( [UCSB communication professors honored for lifetime of achievements]( Tamara Afifi, department chair, and Cynthia Stohl, distinguished professor, have been honored for career-long contributions to their field. [Read more about the recipients]( [More News]( ▤ Featured Events [Wind ensemble performs onstage]( [UCSB Wind Ensemble]( March 7, 2024 Andy Radford directs the ensemble’s spring concert, “Not All Who Wander Are Lost,” featuring portions of Johan de Meij’s majestic Symphony #1, among other works. [Steve Davis]( [Climate Solutions in Three Acts]( March 11, 2024 Steve Davis discusses projects led by his group to assess prospects for reducing difficult-to-abate GHG emissions and for avoiding the mounting impacts of wildfire in California and the western U.S. [Characters from the film ''And, Towards Happy Alleys'']( [CWC Global: And, Towards Happy Alleys]( March 12, 2024 Filmmaker Sreemoyee Singh joins moderator Shiva Balaghi for a post-screening discussion of the 2023 film documenting the experiences of everyday Iranian women. [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.