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New exhibition explores many lives of Shakespeare’s texts

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Black historical images
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Douglass Day at UCSB invites the public to transcribe Black history
color portrait photograph of Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English Alan Liu
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Distinguished Professor Emeritus Alan Liu, January 2026

Faculty Research Lecturer Alan Liu ponders ‘good’ knowledge in the age of AI
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UC Santa Barbara English assistant professor Jim Casey is leading a project to recover and share 19th-century African American newspapers using artificial intelligence.

$750,000 Schmidt Sciences grant uses AI to transform Black press archives
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Sherrilyn Ifill

Civil rights lawyer Sherrilyn Ifill reimagines democracy in talk for UCSB Arts & Lectures
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Author Louis Bayard is adapting his novel "The Wildes," which explores Oscar Wilde’s family life, for a staged reading at UCSB’s LAUNCH PAD Summer Series on July 10.

Louis Bayard brings ‘The Wildes’ to UCSB’s LAUNCH PAD series
a scuba diver floating near a colony of soft corals in Fiji
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A scuba diver pictured with a colony of soft corals in Fiji, 2020

‘Coralations’ Q&A with author Melody Jue
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Matt Perko
Jane Ward is a professor and chair of UCSB's Department of Feminist Studies

How feminist witch studies redefine magic and power
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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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Author measures memoir’s potential impacts on readers with eating disorders
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Left: Dario Calmese; right: Jeff Liang
The arts and humanities, including UCSB Arts & Lectures, and UCSB Athletics, are key focus areas for the Arnholds' generosity to the university.

John ’75 and Jody Arnhold elevate the arts, the humanities and athletics
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UC Santa Barbara selects inaugural Public Voices Fellows
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Nine early-career faculty members receive 2023-24 Hellman Fellowships
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