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UCSB Reads selects “Your Brain on Art” for its 18th season
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The campus teams with students, neighbors and local agencies to ensure another laid back Halloween
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Working toward a clean energy future, the university launches a campus decarbonization study
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For the seventh year straight, UC Santa Barbara is named Best Place to Work
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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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Prescribed burn at North Campus Open Space will revive an ancient tradition
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Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish, circa 1926 (left), and in 2000. Photos courtesy of Mary Robles.

Library collaboration showcases Santa Barbara community history
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Take a peek — and make a pick — for UCSB Reads 2024
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This summer, take a free bus ride from campus to the courthouse for open-air screenings of space creature-themed flicks
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New York City Ballet principal dancer Tiler Peck will perform in UCSB Arts & Lectures' upcoming season.

With its new season of performances and programs UCSB Arts & Lectures promises to ‘spark joy’
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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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Mike Eliason

University names winners of Thomas More Storke Award and other major prizes for 2023 graduates
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