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Jeff Liang
Chancellor Dennis Assanis, center, and Eleni Assanis, center left, are joined by multiple UC Santa Barbara staff members to sign the Okanagan Charter

Underscoring its commitment to wellbeing on campus, UCSB adopts Okanagan Charter

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A celebratory send-off
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Left: Dario Calmese; right: Jeff Liang
The arts and humanities, including UCSB Arts & Lectures, and UCSB Athletics, are key focus areas for the Arnholds' generosity to the university.

John ’75 and Jody Arnhold elevate the arts, the humanities and athletics
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Matt Perko
“Coming back to school a little bit older and as a veteran has helped me truly appreciate this experience. It turns out I really enjoy this environment and being in academia — it’s been phenomenal,” says Shadoe Neri-Dewitt ’24.

How a transfer student veteran went from Navy to neuroscience
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Photos by Jeff Liang
UCSB Library Award for Undergraduate Research winners (left to right): April Luce (physics), Sanjana Sujeet (environmental studies), Hanna Kawamoto (history), April Zhang (environmental studies) and Shadoe Dewitt (psychological and brain sciences). Not pictured: Audrey Gaceta (psychological and brain sciences).

Undergraduates win cash prizes for UCSB Library’s annual research award
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Matt Perko

University names winners of top student awards for Class of 2024
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Four undergraduates and one professor receive Chancellor’s research awards
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Debra Herrick
Andrew Smith '24

Despite extraordinary challenges, undergraduate Andrew Smith prevails
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Graduate student service is honored with Dixon-Levy awards
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A week’s worth of commencement activities will celebrate 6,875 graduates for 2023–2024
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Sonia Fernandez

Creative Studies students mark major milestone in the first of UCSB's Commencement ceremonies
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Miles Moses '24

How a passion for math drove this College of Creative Studies grad to distinction
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Matt Perko

Commencement returns to the Green
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