UC Santa Barbara

undergraduate students, faculty, and alumni took home trophies at this year's Indy Awards for acting and stagecraft 🎭🏆

Student winners were recognized for their work on a theatrical adaptation of George Orwell's "Animal Farm," a production of Shakespeare's "The Tempest," and more.

"UCSB had a particularly strong year in theater," said Leslie Dinaberg, the Santa Barbara Independent's arts and culture editor.

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UCSB student-produced plays collect theater awards It was a good year for UCSB theater as three graduating seniors and associated faculty took home prestigious Indy Awards

"If we give the ocean a little space to breathe, I think it’ll come back." On , learn more about marine ecologist Ben Halpern and his career 🌊 🔬

Ben Halpern is a former marine biology graduate student at UCSB who became the executive director of the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) in 2016. His research has painted a picture of how humans have collectively impacted Earth’s ecological systems.

The challenge Halpern proposes, is for humanity to pull back in hopes of proving his theories wrong on the oceans quality drastically changing 25 years from now.

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