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Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost David Marshall speaking at a podium
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Matt Perko

Symposium celebrates UCSB’s academic excellence
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Atomic physicist David Weld selected for 2026 National Brown Investigator Award
chancellor dennis assanis inauguration ceremony
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Matt Perko
UC Santa Barbara Chancellor Dennis Assanis, May 27, 2026

‘Agent of change’ Dennis Assanis inaugurated as UCSB chancellor
A large and diverse group of adults in business attire stand shoulder to shoulder, smiling, in front of the White House
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Courtesy Dorit Hanein
Professor Dorit Hanein, center-left, newly elected fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, took part in the society's recent advocacy event in Washington D.C.

Professor Dorit Hanein recognized for pioneering high resolution cryo-imaging technologies
a section of cave with Native American art
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Doc Searles/ CC BY-SA 2.0
The rock art of the Chumash people, the original inhabitants of what are now Santa Barbara, Ventura, San Luis Obispo, Los Angeles and Kern counties

Professor Emerita Lynn Gamble receives lifetime achievement award as a California archaeologist
A headshot of Dennis Assanis is overlaid on a landscape photo of a college campus on a navy blue background
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Matt Perko
UC Santa Barbara Chancellor Dennis Assanis

UC Santa Barbara set to celebrate inauguration of Chancellor Dennis Assanis
A book titled The Correspondence of Henry D. Thoreau: Volume 3: 1857–1862 is propped on a stone wall with a building marked Library blurred in the background.
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Courtesy UCSB Library
A copy of "Correspondence Volume 3" photographed in front of UCSB Library's Paseo West entrance.

UCSB’s Thoreau Edition publishes final volume of Henry David Thoreau’s correspondence
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New collection examines the lasting effects of purity culture
A deer looks a pair of hikers walking down a snow-covered trail.
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Gary Bendig via Unsplash
Our presence affects animals beyond merely how we’ve modified the landscape.

Data on human and wildlife movement during the pandemic suggest new ways for us to coexist
Snags cover a mountainside under white puffy clouds.
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Cavan Images via iStock
Forests can’t offset emissions as a carbon store if trees are constantly succumbing to droughts, pests and fires.

Carbon markets underestimate the risks U.S. forests face from climate change
Sunbeams filter down on a algae-covered rocks on a shallow seafloor.
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Johan Holmdahl via iStock
Oxygenated seafloors were likely the cradle of eukaryotic life.

Early complex life clung to oxygenated seafloors for hundreds of millions of years
a gray whale blows in in the San Francisco Bay
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Darrin Allen © NOAA Permit #26532
The new technology will detect whales by sensing the heat of their blows with thermal imaging

New AI system uses cameras and thermal sensors to steer ships clear of gray whales in the San Francisco Bay
concept illustration of the energy landscape of 2D materials

The first-time direct observation of exotic charge-neutral quasiparticles in twisted tungsten diselenide
Man in a blue shirt and tan pants tossing a blue bean bag, with a green tree and large building in the background
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Jeff Liang
The campus Bean Bag Toss Tournament brings out the crowds during the annual United for Education campaign.

UCSB’s United for Education campaign leverages small acts for big community impact
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Alexis Childress, Experienced Isolation: Home, 2025, Digital Sculpture

MFA students featured in exhibition at AD&A Museum
Headshot of Yuheng Bu
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James Badham
Yuheng Bu is pursuing a project aimed at advancing watermarking

Yuheng Bu seeks a better way to ensure the trustworthiness of AI-generated text
hands holding up a piece of art with a woman blurry in background
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Elena Zhurkova/UCOP

Art of Wellness program offers students space to pause, create and connect
Concrete pours onto the ground on a construction site.
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Chaiyaporn1144 vis iStock
Cement production is an overlooked source of carbon emissions in public discourse.

Basalt could be the key to greener and cheaper cement
illustration of a person walking a tightrope between two heads, one thinking dark thoughts, the other thinking good thoughts
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iStock

Culture plays key role in people comfortable with contradiction and change
wide view of multiple modern buildings with green landscaping and people walking by
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Matt Perko/UC Santa Barbara

College of Engineering launches UCSB’s first fully online master’s degree program
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