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  • Wynton Marsalis in dark suit playing trumpet against solid blue background
    Gift to UCSB Arts & Lectures launches Arnhold A&L Education Initiative to expand, enhance educational programming, outreach
  • Henley Hall achieves LEED Platinum, wins 2021 American Architecture Award, other honors
  • The campus and Amazon team up on a new research initiative in machine learning and data science
  • Donors join forces to establish a $1 million chair in Jain studies, within Department of Religious Studies
  • The university again exceeds $100 million in philanthropic gifts for fiscal year 2019-20
  • Anonymous gift establishes Jules Zimmer Dean’s Chair in the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education
  • Betty Elings Wells gifts $500,000 to Promise Scholars program to support high-achieving, low-income students
  • Benioff Ocean Initiative, Coca-Cola Foundation announce $11 million in funding to clean up rivers
  • Five alumni join UC Santa Barbara Foundation Board of Trustees; Betty Elings Wells named chairperson
  • Gift establishes Creative Computing Initiative to train humanities students in programming, technical skills
  • Valentine Eastern Sierra Reserves gets $1 million gift to support students, research, infrastructure
  • UCSB Women's Tennis player Lise Sentenac
    Major gift from alumnus John Arnhold and wife Jody Arnhold will propel Gaucho tennis programs
  • With major gift for social science research, Louise and Stephen Pahl aim to foster interdisciplinary solutions
  • Jack and Kim Johnson help break ground on UCSB's Edible Campus program student farm
    Jack and Kim Johnson help break ground on UCSB's Edible Campus program student farm
    Alumni, donors Kim and Jack Johnson help UC Santa Barbara break ground on its student farm, culminating years of effort
  • UC Santa Barbara Foundation welcomes four new trustees for the 2018-19 academic year
  • UC Santa Barbara Bentson Scholar Ally Aplin
    The Bentson Foundation secures future opportunities for outstanding students in marine science
  • Gift from author T.A. Barron establishes endowed fund for environmental leadership in the humanities
  • Professor Charles Bazerman endows a fellowship fund for continuing lecturers in the UCSB Writing Program
  • Zegar Family Foundation gifts UCSB $1.04 million to address impacts of climate change through science
  • School children having the touch-tank experience at UCSB's REEF
    Betty Elings Wells’ major gift to the REEF will fund improvements and enhance educational outreach programs
  • UC Santa Barbara announces Dangermond Endowed Chair in Conservation Studies
  • Philanthropist George Holbrook safeguards graduate research fellowships at the Institute for Energy Efficiency
  • UC Santa Barbara reaches $100 million in fundraising in fiscal year 2017
  • Kim and Jack Johnson at UCSB
    Alumni Kim and Jack Johnson partner with UCSB’s Edible Campus Program on teaching farm to open next fall
  • Wooden fence leads to Sedgwick Reserve
    A gift from Linda Duttenhaver and Morton La Kretz will further research and teaching at Sedgwick Reserve
  • The Club & Guest House at UCSB
    UCSB’s renovated faculty club, now The Club & Guest House, is open for business
  • UCSB’s Marine Science Institute partners with global leaders at World Economic Forum to translate ocean research into action
  • UC Santa Barbara marks its second-best year ever for fundraising in fiscal year 2016
  • Jim Maragos coral photo
    With a $10 million gift from Marc and Lynne Benioff, UCSB launches the Benioff Ocean Initiative to study and solve ocean issues
  • Carlos Diniz, Walt Disney Hall
    Vast archive of famed architectural illustrator Carlos Diniz is now housed at UCSB’s Art, Design & Architecture Museum
  • Steve Hinkley and JoAnn Kuchera-Morin
    UCSB and new interactive science museum MOXI partner to engage the public in science, technology, engineering, arts and math
  • Gift from the TomKat Foundation, established by Tom Steyer and Kathryn Taylor, launches Carbon Neutrality Project led by UCSB
  • Megan Jones and Madison Frame
    Philanthropically focused student group UCSB First dispenses $4,250 in grants during 2016 Philanthropy Awards Dinner
  • Philanthropist, water research advocate Henry (Sam) Wheeler, Jr., was key supporter of Bren School's Urban Water Environment project.
  • Honorary alumna and prolific donor Lady Leslie Ridley-Tree to chair UC Santa Barbara Foundation board
  • Madison Frame and Megan Jones of UCSB First
    Through education, participation and just plain fun, UCSB First aims to create a culture of giving on campus
  • Sara Miller McCune's $5 million gift will support her many passions on campus, including UCSB Library
  • Amir Abo-Shaeer
    Media Arts and Technology graduate students mentor at local engineering academy in unique new collaboration aimed at education reform
  • A look inside UCSB's Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration
    A look inside UCSB's Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration
    New gift funds CCBER's collection manager; Mireia Beas-Moix is the curator and custodian of some half-million scientific specimens
  • Estate gift establishes first endowed chair for Gevirtz School, in honor of Prof. Michael Gerber
  • Eva Haller on her passion for the arts and her gift of a Fletcher Benton sculpture to UCSB's Art, Design & Architecture Museum
    Eva Haller on her passion for the arts and her gift of a Fletcher Benton sculpture to UCSB's Art, Design & Architecture Museum
    Committed to the arts, trustee Eva Haller donates major work by prominent sculptor to Art, Design & Architecture Museum
  • Infusion of $5 million in gift funds a major boon to Department of Economics
  • Biologist Thomas Weimbs, prominent scientist in kidney disease research, awarded $600K to further his work on the condition
  • With $3.5M grant from the National Institutes of Health, UCSB’s Jamey Marth will advance his work on sepsis
  • Berkshire Hathaway’s Charlie Munger makes a $65 million gift — the largest donation in campus history — to UC Santa Barbara
  • A look at UCSB's Sedgwick Reserve
    A look at UCSB's Sedgwick Reserve
    Driven by a love of nature, alumna Linda Duttenhaver gives $2 million to renovate the historic Ranch House at UCSB’s Sedgwick Natural Reserve.
  • UCSB students deploying CTD at sea
    Hoping to foster future leaders in marine science, alumni launch undergrad scholarship in aquatic biology
  • Cheadles and Yangs
    Endowment launched by Vernon Cheadle's family will safeguard his legacy by supporting operations that holds his botanic collections
  • Motivated by great friendships born of her longtime connection to the Faculty Women's Club, honorary alumna helps fund project to improve the group's on-campus gathering place.
  • Researchers in the Media Arts and Technology grad program are using math as a bridge between traditionally divergent disciplines.
  • Driven by a belief in the transformative potential of education — and a passion for helping those in need— Lady Leslie Ridley-Tree has gifted the campus with $500,000 for student scholarships. The Lady Leslie Ridley-Tree Endowment Fund is meant to...
  • The Department of Music at UC Santa Barbara has received a $550,000 endowment gift to establish a graduate fellowship in ethnomusicology and a scholarship in Scandinavian music.

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