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The following material was taken from an article in The UCSB Current, written by Shelly Leachman and posted on July 28, 2015, with the title “Seizing Opportunity: Standout Santa Maria High School students earn scholarships to prestigious Research Mentorship Program at UCSB” (read the entire article here): Seventy-seven high school students are spending part of their summer at UCSB, participating in the highly competitive...

Geography Professor Susan Cassels, in collaboration with Prof. Eli Rosenberg at Emory University and Prof. Steven Goodreau at the University of Washington, has received an NIH R21 Exploratory/Developmental Research grant award. The 2-year joint research effort, “Mathematical models to inform effective home-use HIV testing strategies for MSM,” will identify how rapid home-use HIV testing strategies may impact HIV incidence...

UCSB Geography alumna Elisa Frank (MA 2009) was recently interviewed by David Robson, a feature writer for BBC.com’s Future series. “Coffee in crisis: The bitter end of our favourite drink?” was posted on July 29, 2015: As we sip our lattes and espressos and read the daily headlines, climate change can seem like a distant threat. But travel a few thousand miles to the source of your caffeine fix, and the turbulence...