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New collection examines the lasting effects of purity culture

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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
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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’
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Matt Perko

UC Santa Barbara ranks among top universities nationally and globally in recent assessments

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Four undergraduates and one professor receive Chancellor’s research 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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