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color photograph of a black bear in a tree
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Skyler Palatnick/@skyswildart
A black bear on the UCSB campus, April 2025

Bear ecologist offers insight on recent sightings on and around campus

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Giovanni Batz wins book prize for 'The Fourth Invasion'
grad student Kirsten Rollins on stage giving her Grad Slam presentation
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Jeff Liang
Grad Slam champion Kirsten Rollins, April 3, 2025

Promising cancer research earns top honors at 2025 Grad Slam
An empty street lined with palm trees, before sunset
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Jeff Liang

University and community agencies partner on safety measures for Deltopia
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2025 Grad Slam set for final showdown at Campbell Hall
Viviana Valle Gomez and Betsy Kaminski
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Matt Perko
Viviana Valle Gomez, left, and Betsy Kaminski, right, lead the UCSB Women's Center

Visibility, inclusivity and community: UCSB Women’s Center celebrates 50 years
Leda Cosmides, Adina Roskies, Rachel Segalman
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Courtesy Photo
Left to right: Leda Cosmides, Adina Roskies, Rachel Segalman

‘The embodiment of scientific excellence and service’
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Winner of Second Chance round advances to Grad Slam campus final
Members of Girl Gains outside
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Jeff Liang
From left Girl Gains executive board, Jayden Ruth, Sindhu Guddanti, Teagan Golden, Awni Broughton, Ariana Rivera, Lola Alvarez, Emily Ge and Andelina Miller.

Girl Gains empowers women through weightlifting and community
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Teamwork and grit earn ROTC cadets an invite to West Point championships
Two women hold hands with a man dressed as Storke Tower.
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Daniel Smith
Jen Johansen, left, academic personnel manager in the College of Creative Studies, and Lisa Blanco, right, flank "Storkie" Joshua Mejia-Padilla, financial coordinator in the sociology department.

Bringing the fun, and the food, Staff Assembly hosts appreciation event
A black and white photograph of two people in the atomic devastation of World War II in Hiroshima, Japan
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Wikimedia Commons / U.S. Department of Energy
Hiroshima, November 27, 1945

Girls and women disproportionately harmed by nuclear radiation
A man and a woman behind a standing microphone, circa 1930
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Diane Corwin Okarski
"Poet Laureate of Radio" Norman Corwin, left, and actor Peggy Burt, right, performing on the “Magic Key of RCA” in the late 1930s.

Bringing radio history to life
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