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Jeff Liang
The campus Bean Bag Toss Tournament brings out the crowds during the annual United for Education campaign.

UCSB’s United for Education campaign leverages small acts for big community impact

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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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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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Michelle Ramos Ramirez ’24

UCSB’s ÉXITO Program graduates third cohort of future ethnic studies teachers amidst rising attacks on ethnic studies
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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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Students from Adams Elementary School at the Santa Barbara Presidio learn about the statue of King Carlos III.

Exploring the meaning and significance of monuments
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