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Recent UCSB graduates Matthieu Huy and Enri Lala were selected from 3,400 applicants for a fully funded year of graduate study in France.

Two UC Santa Barbara graduates receive inaugural Lafayette Fellowship

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A women in a black sweater and pink top sits on a chair, pointing, as another women in jeans with long grey hair looks her direction
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Jeff Liang
Playwright Melinda Lopez, left, with director Risa Brainin, during a rehearsal of "Standing Still."

Time to roll up your yoga mat and take a stand
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Asha de Vos

Global workshop focuses on protecting whales from ship strikes
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Matt Perko
Jia-Ching Chen, May 2026

Global studies professor wins Fulbright to study energy geopolitics in Taiwan
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College of Creative Studies students created a mural for the exhibition “Scaling the Walls” at the Channing Peake Gallery and the Santa Barbara City Hall Gallery.

UCSB students and alumni featured in mural exhibition
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Wildfire resilience has always been the goal. Now it's a number
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Kelp forests connected to sandy beach food webs
A red light mounted to a stop sign sits adjacent a green signpost noting 29 miles to Corcoran
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Chris Bovbjerg
The inaugural cohort of students in the UCSB LIFTED bachelor's degree program at California State Prison–Corcoran will begin in fall 2027, with a second group to be admitted for fall 2028.

UCSB launches bachelor’s degree for incarcerated individuals at Corcoran State Prison
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Putting land to multiple uses is both economically and ecologically wise.

Integrated land planning is necessary to meet climate, food and biodiversity goals
Walter Echo-Hawk, Nakia Zavalla, Edward Halealoha Ayau and Timothy McKeown
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Greg Johnson
From left to right, “Repatriation Futures” team members Walter Echo-Hawk, Nakia Zavalla, Edward Halealoha Ayau and Timothy McKeown at the Santa Ynez Chumash Museum and Cultural Center.

Capps Center receives grant for work on Indigenous repatriation
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Grackle research reveals behavioral flexibility and adaptation in action
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New exhibition explores many lives of Shakespeare’s texts
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Left to right: Alice Alldredge, Lars Bildsten and Henry Yang have been elected as members of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences

Three UCSB professors elected as members of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
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