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Candice Lyons
Solaire Denaud, 2025 Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellow
PhD candidate Solaire Denaud receives prestigious humanities and social science fellowship
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Matt Perko
Jane Ward is a professor and chair of UCSB's Department of Feminist Studies
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Left to right: Leda Cosmides, Adina Roskies, Rachel Segalman
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Professor Sameer Pandya at UC Santa Barbara's Harder Stadium
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Ethan Turpin & Naomi Tague
"Tree Water," detail, 2024
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Untold amounts of toxic waste were carelessly, though legally, disposed of off the California coast. Their presence continues to haunt human and wildlife health.
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City of Santa Monica
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Illustration by Matt Perko
In “Fighting Mad,” UCSB professor Laury Oaks examines how infant surrender policies are being used to justify restrictions on reproductive choice—and the ongoing fight for reproductive justice in the post-Roe era.
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Second-year Pico Gilman ’27 placed sixth in the Putnam Math Competition, leading UCSB to its best-ever finish.
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Flower picking as a metaphor for rediscovery — professor emerita Víctor Fuentes’ "Florilegio" gathers centuries of overlooked Spanish-language literature from the U.S.