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Matt Perko
Brenda Major, May 2024

Brenda Major elected to National Academy of Sciences

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Emily Jacobs seated, looking upward, seated in front of a backdrop of brain imagery
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Matt Perko
Emily Jacobs’ lab primarily examines how hormones affect the brain

The current landscape of women’s health — and how it might be improved
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Staff Sgt. Matthew A. Foster/ Wikimedia commons

Unite to Light sends solar lamps and chargers to Lahaina
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Prescribed burn at North Campus Open Space will revive an ancient tradition
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Take a peek — and make a pick — for UCSB Reads 2024
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Jessie Ward
On the eve of their graduation, departing seniors look back on their time, and growth, as Gauchos

Graduating seniors look back on their college experience by revisiting themselves as freshmen
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Dean’s award and other prizes recognize scholastic achievement in the sciences, social sciences, humanities, fine arts
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Mike Eliason

University names winners of Thomas More Storke Award and other major prizes for 2023 graduates
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Four undergraduates and one professor receive Chancellor’s research awards; UCSB Library awards six students for exemplary research
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Matt Perko

’Tis the season: Here comes Commencement
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An all-time, top Peace Corps volunteer-producing university
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Building on their vision — and their legacy — alumni Louise and Stephen Pahl gift the campus $10.5 million for social sciences research in the interest of change
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Tresa Pollock is the first woman to win the prestigious Acta Materialia Gold Medal for metallurgists
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