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UCSB has been named one of the 12 "hottest" colleges in the nation, according to the Kaplan College Guide.

Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP) solicits applications from journalists and science writers to spend up to 5 months during the spring of 2003 at KITP as a Journalist Fellow.

The university held a ceremony in June, 2002 to formally name the institute the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics. The event honored Fred Kavli who made two gifts totaling $7.5 million through the Kavli Foundation and the Kavli Operating Institute for building endowment, supporting the construction of a new wing and programmatic initiatives at the institute. View photographs of the ceremony and read remarks of keynote speaker Kip Thorne of the California Institute of Technology.