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The following is a UCSB GradPost article written by Kyle Crocco, posted May 8, 2015, titled “Graduate Student in the Spotlight: Karly Miller, Fulbright Scholar, Shows the Power of Listening”: Third-year marine science doctoral candidate Karly Miller has wanted to study the ocean for as long as she can remember. Her desire to learn more about the ocean led her across the globe to places as far flung as New Zealand, Ecuador,...

This year’s Staff Celebration Week included special events such as the annual Ice Cream Social, a plethora of food trucks on Farmers Market Wednesday (with gourmet offerings ranging from lobster to grilled cheese), the Staff Social and Spring Arts & Crafts Bazaar, and the annual Chancellor’s Staff Luncheon on the Faculty Club Green. Geography graduate students and faculty showed their appreciation of the...

The following is a Science Daily News article written by Eric Hand and posted on May 4, 2015 with the title above: There’s diamond under them thar plants. A geologist has discovered a thorny, palmlike plant in Liberia that seems to grow only on top of kimberlite pipes—columns of volcanic rock hundreds of meters across that extend deep into Earth, left by ancient eruptions that exhumed diamonds from the mantle. If the plant...