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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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Take a peek — and make a pick — for UCSB Reads 2024
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This summer, take a free bus ride from campus to the courthouse for open-air screenings of space creature-themed flicks
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Inaugural Joseph Connell fellowship supports graduate field ecology in honor of late biologist
Group photo of ROTC commissioning event
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Sara Villacorta
UC Santa Barbara ROTC Surf Battalion commissioning ceremony

Promoting adaptability and compassion, Army ROTC Surfrider Battalion commissions new officers to ‘serve those they lead’
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Jeff Liang

And just like that … a new crop of Gaucho grads takes a bow
two students in blue commencement garb
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Matt Perko

‘Stewards of our fragile and precious environment,’ Bren students lauded at Commencement
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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’
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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
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Debra Herrick
Lily Melendez

Her experience with food insecurity sparked new graduate Lily Melendez’s passion for sustainable food studies
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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
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