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UCSB Geography graduate student Sarah Harris took third place in the Graduate Paper Abstract competition at the 69th Annual Conference of the California Geographical Society that was held May 1-3, 2015 at Humboldt State University in Arcata, CA. The conference featured “excellent research, exemplary cartography, educational workshops and, perhaps best of all, world-class fellowship for geographers from around the Golden State...

The following is an advisory from Pam Lombardo, UCSB Acting Associate Vice Chancellor, Administrative Services, emailed to the campus community on May 21, 2015: We are writing to update our community on the most recent news concerning the spill and the efforts to contain and clean up the oil and to share links to additional information. The U.S. Coast Guard working with federal, state and local agencies continues to oversee the...

“Scientists working in the desert badlands of northwestern Kenya have found stone tools dating back 3.3 million years, long before the advent of modern humans, and by far the oldest such artifacts yet discovered. The tools, whose makers may or may not have been some sort of human ancestor, push the known date of such tools back by 700,000 years; they also may challenge the notion that our own most direct ancestors were the first...