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Three people in graduation gowns walk past a colorful background of geometric shapes
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Matt Perko

University names winners of top student awards for Class of 2025

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Three adults in graduation regalia throwing caps toward a blue sky
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Matt Perko

UC Santa Barbara commencement events to celebrate 7,460 graduates for 2024–2025
Daniel Naylor
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UCSB math graduate charts his next move
college age woman of Taiwanese descent sits in studio with branches and canvas
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Debra Herrick
Meiya Sidney '25, College of Creative Studies and art honors

Artist explores Taiwanese heritage and memory though ceramics
man of East Asian descent in stadium with dramatic light
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Jeff Liang
Professor Sameer Pandya at UC Santa Barbara's Harder Stadium

In Sameer Pandya’s ‘Our Beautiful Boys,’ teenage secrets are the dark heart of suburbia
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Second-year Pico Gilman ’27 placed sixth in the Putnam Math Competition, leading UCSB to its best-ever finish.

UCSB ranks fifth in prestigious Putnam Math Competition
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Michelle Petty, February 2024

Black linguistic justice wins recognition in academia
two colorful prints in exhibition space
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Ingrid Bostrom
Corita Kent (b. Fort Dodge, IA, 1918 - 1986), “harness the sun” and “solw,” details, both 1967, Serigraph on paper, Courtesy of Corita Art Center, Los Angeles. Art, Design & Architecture Museum, UC Santa Barbara.

California artists reimagine language, state’s identity in new exhibition
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Santa Barbara’s Off Register art book and print fair brings art, prints and interactive exhibits
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UC Santa Barbara again named ‘Best Place to Work’
Two students ascend the modern stairway of an academic building with bright sun overhead
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UC Santa Barbara ranks among top universities nationally and globally in recent assessments

A celebratory send-off
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Four undergraduates and one professor receive Chancellor’s research awards
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