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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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Toward understanding, healing and transformation
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With a suite of summer programs, Graduate Division prepares undergraduates to pursue advanced degrees
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Education Abroad Program open house showcases travel-study opportunities around the world
Photo portrait of Gustavo Arellano
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Courtesy of Los Angeles Times
Gustavo Arellano, winner of the 19th annual Luis Leal Award for Distinction in Chicano/Latino Literature

Los Angeles Times columnist Gustavo Arellano to receive Luis Leal Award
lab equipment
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McLean Echlin
The prototype of UCSB's TriBeam microscope, developed by the Tresa Pollock Lab before it was commercialized by Thermo Fisher Scientific

Scientific research soars with NSF’s Major Research Instrumentation program
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Showing high school students how education, leadership and careers intertwine
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UCSB Writing Program names inaugural M. Garren Tinney fellows
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Visiting law scholar to discuss race at the Supreme Court
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National Academy of Inventors recognizes Professor Thuc-Quyen Nguyen
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Library launches free makerspace with grand opening workshops and ‘UCSB Reads’ book giveaway
Branches bearing orange flowers extend across a white background
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Elena Zhukova

New trustees bring ‘unique vision, leadership and passion’ to the university’s foundation board
A diverse collection of college-aged people sitting in the sun on a building deck, reading
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Matt Perko

Unveiling our most visited stories of 2023
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