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Matt Perko

New, no-cost initiative helps undergraduates earn professional certificates and professional placement

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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
Social Sciences and Media Studies Building
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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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Left to right: Tanya Atwater, Leda Cosmides and Nelson Lichtenstein

Joining one of the world’s premier honorary societies, three professors are named to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
Philosophy professor Thomas Holden
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Matt Perko
Professor Thomas Holden, March 2023

New book offers new interpretation on Thomas Hobbes’ philosophy of religion
Professor Umesh Mishra sitting on stairs
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Matt Perko
Professor Umesh Mishra

A new leader: Professor Umesh Mishra to become dean of engineering
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Matt Perko

A University of California multi-campus initiative strives to boost diversity within its STEM teaching faculty ranks
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