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Three adults in graduation regalia throwing caps toward a blue sky
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Matt Perko

UC Santa Barbara commencement events to celebrate 7,460 graduates for 2024–2025

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Professors Somayeh Dodge and Alan Murray receive UCGIS awards
color photograph of professor Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky
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Matt Perko
Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky, December 2024

Hamed-Troyansky’s “Empire of Refugees” wins multiple book prizes
color photographs of Leila Rupp and Janine Jones
Outgoing Graduate Division Interim Dean Leila Rupp (left) and incoming Janine Jones

Interim Graduate Dean Leila Rupp to pass torch to Janine Jones
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National Book Award winner Jason De León uncovers stories at the U.S.-Mexico border
Closeup of 'The Book of Delights' with a library and people in the background
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Courtesy UC Santa Barbara Library

Author Ross Gay caps off UCSB Reads 2025 with appearance on campus
James B. Milliken
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Charlie Palafox, University of Texas
James B. Milliken

James B. Milliken named 22nd president of the University of California
Irene Beyerlein in front of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences seal
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Photo illustration by Matt Perko
Irene Beyerlein

Professor Irene Beyerlein elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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Design justice scholar Sasha Costanza-Chock to speak at Center for Black Studies Research
a scuba diver floating near a colony of soft corals in Fiji
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Melody Jue
A scuba diver pictured with a colony of soft corals in Fiji, 2020

‘Coralations’ Q&A with author Melody Jue
AI making connections

UCSB to host second annual AI Spring Symposium
Six adults sitting across from one another near a chalkboard filled with equations
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Jeff Liang
A group of KITP postdoctoral scholars interact at Kohn Hall on the UC Santa Barbara campus

Continuing to enhance the physics community
Aerial view six white buildings surrounded by trees
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© SOM | Mithun
A high-resolution rendered site plan for the San Benito student residential community

University progresses on development plans to expand student housing
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