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Portrait of Jennifer Ja Birchim
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Matt Perko
“My favorite spot on campus is Campus Point. My kids learned how to surf there, and that is where I surf as well as my husband. It is an important place for me because my kids have spent so much of their life down there.” —Jennifer Ja Birchim

From rental listings to dispute resolution, housing officer Jennifer Ja Birchim focuses on student support

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Toward understanding, healing and transformation
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Showing high school students how education, leadership and careers intertwine
Branches bearing orange flowers extend across a white background
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Elena Zhukova

New trustees bring ‘unique vision, leadership and passion’ to the university’s foundation board
Diverse group of students listening to a lecture in a modern lecture hall
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Elena Zhukova
UC Santa Barbara students attend a lecture in the Interactive Learning Pavilion

‘Sharing knowledge across communities to improve lives around the world’
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UCSB Reads selects “Your Brain on Art” for its 18th season
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The campus teams with students, neighbors and local agencies to ensure another laid back Halloween
3D illustration of conceptual compass with needle pointing 0 percent of CO2
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iStock / Olivier Le Moal

Working toward a clean energy future, the university launches a campus decarbonization study
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For the seventh year straight, UC Santa Barbara is named Best Place to Work
Emily Jacobs seated, looking upward, seated in front of a backdrop of brain imagery
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Matt Perko
Emily Jacobs’ lab primarily examines how hormones affect the brain

The current landscape of women’s health — and how it might be improved
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Prescribed burn at North Campus Open Space will revive an ancient tradition
Archival photos of Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish in Santa Barbara
Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish, circa 1926 (left), and in 2000. Photos courtesy of Mary Robles.

Library collaboration showcases Santa Barbara community history
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Take a peek — and make a pick — for UCSB Reads 2024
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