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The symmetrical pattern of a cable-stayed bridge from below.
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Comparing the complexity of scientific theories is challenging. Mathematical symmetry can provide an excellent guide.

Sharpening Occam’s Razor
two students in blue commencement garb
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Matt Perko

‘Stewards of our fragile and precious environment,’ Bren students lauded at Commencement
Dancer in flight
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New York City Ballet principal dancer Tiler Peck will perform in UCSB Arts & Lectures' upcoming season.

With its new season of performances and programs UCSB Arts & Lectures promises to ‘spark joy’
Juneteenth mural
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Juneteenth Legacy Project
"Absolute Equality" mural in Galveston, Texas, commemorating Juneteenth

Teaching Juneteenth: a history lesson in slavery and freedom
A grid of photos of graduating college seniors overlaid with title, Four Years Later
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Jessie Ward
On the eve of their graduation, departing seniors look back on their time, and growth, as Gauchos

Graduating seniors look back on their college experience by revisiting themselves as freshmen
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Dean’s award and other prizes recognize scholastic achievement in the sciences, social sciences, humanities, fine arts
Student sits at lime green table under a tree
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Debra Herrick
Lily Melendez

Her experience with food insecurity sparked new graduate Lily Melendez’s passion for sustainable food studies
A tall grey tower against a bright blue sky
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Mike Eliason

University names winners of Thomas More Storke Award and other major prizes for 2023 graduates
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Capping off their doctoral work at UCSB, historian Sergey Salushchev and microbiologist Thomas Lankiewicz win the university's dissertation award
Chloe Zhang

Chloe Zhang graduates with a doctorate in school psychology and a passion for helping children from marginalized communities
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Professor Thuc-Quyen Nguyen receives double honors for her work on organic photovoltaics
Anabel Rocha Ambrosio
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Debra Herrick
Anabel Rocha Ambrosio

First-generation graduate Anabel Rocha Ambrosio builds a better life with education as the foundation
students at College of Creative Studies graduation
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Sonia Fernandez

UC Santa Barbara kicks off Commencement with College of Creative Studies ceremony
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Four undergraduates and one professor receive Chancellor’s research awards; UCSB Library awards six students for exemplary research
oil and natural gas infrastructure in the Permian Basin
Oil and gas extraction infrastructure in the Permian Basin

MethaneMapper is poised to solve the problem of underreported methane emissions
The winners of the 2023 NVC with a big check
Leeta's Kira Wyckhoff (left), and Linus Kautzsch (right), with materials professor Ram Seshadri (center)

Leeta wins UCSB's 24th Annual New Venture Competition
Rice terraces at sunset in Japan
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Shining a light on the interconnectedness between societies and the natural world
concept of subatomic particles from two lattices creating an exotic material
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The negative electrons from one lattice and the positive "holes" from another together create a neutral exciton crystal

Physicists discover an exotic material made of bosons
A graduate with long hair, wearing cap and gown, seen from back facing crowd of graduates
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Matt Perko

’Tis the season: Here comes Commencement
A fishing boat deploys its nets accompanied by a flock of gulls.
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Fishermen and regulatory agencies will need to adapt when marine heatwaves impact the ranges and population levels of targeted species.

Lessons from ‘The Blob’ will help us manage fisheries during future marine heatwaves
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