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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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Talk on AI and the creative process kicks off Interdisciplinary Humanities Center yearlong public event series
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Juan Hernández
Gabriela Castañeda with Border Network for Human Rights, El Paso, Texas

Immigration documentary focuses on ‘military border complex’
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A message from UC President Michael V. Drake: Working together toward inclusive excellence
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Snarky Puppy

Arts & Lectures kicks off 65th season
Left to right: Anna Boser, Naomi Tague, David Valentine, and Leander Anderegg.
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UC Santa Barbara
Left to right: Anna Boser, Naomi Tague, David Valentine, and Leander Anderegg.

UCSB faculty and students among the American Geophysical Union’s 2024 honorees
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"Memoria," staring Oscar-winner Tilda Swinton, kicks off the Panic! film series

Free film series hits the panic button at Carsey-Wolf Center
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UC Santa Barbara and City of Santa Barbara secure a grant to enhance pedestrian and cyclist safety
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Graduate students receive national research fellowships, with significant funding
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Author measures memoir’s potential impacts on readers with eating disorders
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Promise Scholars celebrate graduation

UCSB programs for student parents and low-income scholars win NASH awards
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Jeff Liang
The UCSB Conference & Hospitality Services team commemorate their golden anniversary; back row, from, left: Phoebe Frisch-Gebhart, David Sanders, Christine Alnakoud, Lauren Weiner and Julie Miller and front row, from left: Angelica Diaz, Whitney Morris and Brian Shively.

Campus never sleeps: UCSB Conference & Hospitality Services celebrates 50 years of summer programming
Portrait of Michael Drake
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Elena Zukhova
Michael V. Drake, M.D.

UC President Michael V. Drake, M.D., announces plans to step down
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