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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...

The following Climate Central article was written by Alison Kanski and posted July 28, 2015, with the title above: Radiocarbon dating has been helping put the planet’s history in the right order since it was first invented in the 1940s, giving scientists a key way to determine the age of artifacts like the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Shroud of Turin. Thanks to fossil fuel emissions, though, the method used to date these famous...

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...