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  • New UC financial aid plan covers in-state tuition and fees for members of Native American Indian and Alaska Native tribes
  • U.S. State Department names UC Santa Barbara a 2022 Fulbright HSI Leader
  • Racial Justice Fellows receive five years of funding to pursue research, earn graduate degrees
  • Several from campus receive Fulbright Awards to study abroad in 2022-2023
  • The Green Initiative Fund awards 14 grants for campus-based sustainability projects
  • New fellowship covers graduate school costs for high-achieving, low-income and underserved students
  • Geoff Meyerhof presents his research during UCSB 2022 Grad Slam competition
    Graduate student Geoff Meyerhof took top honors at the 2022 Grad Slam for a presentation about his research with fruit flies
  • 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
  • Santa Barbara Dance Theater welcomes new director, opens new season
  • Grad Slam 2022 launch promotional video
    Grad Slam 2022 launch promotional video
    2022 Grad Slam competition to feature video submission qualifying round, live in-person finals
  • Native American rights icon Madonna Thunder Hawk, daughter Marcella Gilbert speak about their work
  • The campus raised more than $100 million in philanthropic gifts in fiscal year 2021; endowment hits new high
  • New Arts & Lectures series “Justice for All” opens with a talk by Julián Castro
  • UCSB students in masks walking on the quad near red banners
    Return to campus marked by successful move-in operation, myriad activities
  • Undergraduate research projects displayed throughout the summer in new online gallery
  • Artist's rendering of Munger Hall at UCSB exterior
    Campus making progress on student housing development in partnership with philanthropist Charlie Munger
  • Campus receives funds designated for Minority Serving Institutions to help mitigate academic impacts of COVID for students
  • Set to graduate 6,893 students for 2020-2021, campus hosts Grad Walk and virtual commencement with Oprah Winfrey
  • Upcoming enhanced — and in-person — Summer Session offers something for everyone
  • The UCSB Campus Climate Survey will examine attitudes and behaviors among students, faculty and staff
  • EEMB doctoral student to compete in systemwide Grad Slam
  • Musician Yo-Yo Ma leading a cello masterclass for UCSB students
    With outreach efforts, Arts & Lectures brings diverse ideas and unique encounters to students of all ages and the community
  • Rendering of exterior of new classroom building at UCSB
    The university breaks ground on its first new classroom building since 1967
  • 10 graduate students to compete in final round of first-ever virtual Grad Slam
  • RISE Institute reimagines learning in a virtual environment
    RISE Institute reimagines learning in a virtual environment
    Reimagining Instruction for the Student Experience seminar for faculty sets stage for rigorous learning, at a distance
  • UC reaches major open access publishing deal with Springer Nature
  • With degrees in psychology, political science, 2020 grad Aryana Kamelian aspires to combat inequities in education
  • Beyond Academia conference provides insights to graduate students, postdocs considering careers in industry, government
  • Destination College Advising Corps program puts recent college graduates to work as advisers in underserved high schools
  • Jaymes Johnson and Meme Moore
    Scholar Retention Program supports academically dismissed students seeking to complete their degrees
  • A student riding his bike at UC Santa Barbara
    The campus achieves elite platinum designation as a Bike Friendly University
  • Graduate Division series seeks to promote campus conversations around diversity
  • In a landmark year for fundraising, the campus receives $180 million in new gifts and pledges in fiscal year 2019
  • The Green Initiative Fund awards $190,000 in grants for campus-based sustainability projects
  • Video highlights from Commencement 2019
    Video highlights from Commencement 2019
    Gratitude, pride and joy were among the palpable emotions at Commencement 2019
  • Summer Sessions presents a new season of GRIT Talks, a series of free public lectures by notable faculty
  • Commencement 2019 student with document
    With pomp and circumstance, annual commencement exercises capped off the 2018-2019 academic year
  • Media Arts and Technology graduate program to present its End of Year Show, “MADE [at] UCSB”
  • Gift from Wendy Schmidt launches fellowship program to promote research aimed at solving environmental problems
  • Roger McNamee, Silicon Valley investor and author of “Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe,” comes to campus
  • 2019 All Gaucho Reunion promo video
    2019 All Gaucho Reunion promo video
    The 13th Annual All Gaucho Reunion welcomes alumni, students, faculty, staff and the Santa Barbara community
  • In push for open access publishing, campus signs on to OA2020 Initiative as UC ends negotiation with Elsevier
  • The month-long Cool Campus Challenge is a friendly UC-wide competition to take action in the name of the earth
  • El Plan de Santa Bárbara, catalyst for Chicano Studies departments across California, turns 50
  • With major gift for social science research, Louise and Stephen Pahl aim to foster interdisciplinary solutions
  • Array of events support reading and conversation of UCSB Reads 2019 pick, “The Best We Could Do”
  • The Big Table Initiative sparks connections and builds empathy over home-cooked meals
  • UC Santa Barbara Assistant Police Chief Cathy Farley
    After 30-plus years of service to campus, Cathy Farley, assistant police chief and alumna, moves on
  • The illustrated memoir by Caldecott-honored artist Thi Bui is the selection for UCSB Reads 2019
  • Happy family at UC Santa Barbara fall 2018 move-in
    Move-in activities and New Student Convocation mark the start of the new academic year
  • UC Santa Barbara Chancellor Henry T. Yang
    New Student Convocation is the university’s official induction for freshman and transfer students
  • Highlights from UC Santa Barbara's 2018 Commencement exercises
    Highlights from UC Santa Barbara's 2018 Commencement exercises
    Annual commencement exercises conclude the 2017-18 academic year
  • UCSB’s 2018 commencement activities to celebrate 6,784 graduates
  • UCSB Give Day 2018 group of student laughing with pompoms
    UCSB Give Day 2018 raises more than $5.6 million in just 24 hours
  • UCSB hosts 16th California Higher Education Sustainability Conference
  • Bren School student researchers collaborate with Patagonia to address emerging issue of microfiber pollution
  • Video highlights from The Curie-osity Project at UCSB
    Video highlights from The Curie-osity Project at UCSB
    The Gevirtz School teams with Girls Inc. to help 4th – 6th graders find their inner Madame Curie
  • UCSB teams with students and community on safety enhancements and alternative events for Halloween weekend
  • UCSB scholar Alan Liu’s 4Humanities initiative sees success with new student contest
  • Gabriela Quintana-Garcia and Nancy Alvarez
    More than 100 new UCSB graduates are selected as members of Phi Beta Kappa
  • With a Ph.D. from UCSB, newly minted electrical engineer Anisa Myzaferi sets off on new adventure in education
  • UCSB undergraduate students receive Chancellor’s awards for their research contributions
  • With eight ceremonies over eight days, UCSB’s annual commencement exercises will celebrate 5,745 graduates for 2015–2016
  • UCSB LabRATS take sustainability into science labs
    UCSB LabRATS take sustainability into science labs
    UCSB LabRATS program takes sustainability into science labs, saving water, waste and energy
  • All Gaucho Reunion highlights
    All Gaucho Reunion highlights
    More than 9,000 alumni and community members are expected at UCSB for 10th Annual All Gaucho Reunion
  • A sneak peek at life as an English major at UCSB.
    A sneak peek at life as an English major at UCSB.
    Go inside the UCSB English Department, where an inclusive, interdisciplinary culture challenges students and supports them all the way.
  • An inside look at studying film and media at UCSB
    An inside look at studying film and media at UCSB
    UCSB’s Department of Film & Media Studies is fertile training ground for aspiring auteurs, academics and more. Meet a few of them.
  • Student efforts to change the culture in Isla Vista are reflected in “The Warmup” and other Gauchos-only events
  • Aiming for another safe and quiet weekend, a host of restrictions and regulations are in place for Deltopia
  • Climate change iStock Photo
    New English course examines climate change debate by analyzing popular narratives on all sides of the argument.
  • Megan Jones and Madison Frame
    Philanthropically focused student group UCSB First dispenses $4,250 in grants during 2016 Philanthropy Awards Dinner
  • More than 600 college students to attend Afrikan Black Coalition conference at UCSB
  • UCSB Soup Guy Mickael Blancho gives a demo
    Food, Nutrition and Basic Skills Program for students at UCSB is aimed at food security
  • Gauchos for Recovery team
    Alcohol & Drug Program collaborates with the student group Gauchos for Recovery to host a conference at UC Santa Barbara
  • UCSB Power Save Contest Award
    Student residence halls join forces to topple the competition in UC-wide energy saving contest
  • Infusion of $5 million in gift funds a major boon to Department of Economics
  • UCSB undergraduates get a lesson in how to make the most of their liberal arts degrees
  • All actively enrolled UC Santa Barbara students now have the ability to access expanded Microsoft Office tools for free.

  • Highlights of a few of UCSB's many outreach efforts
    Highlights of a few of UCSB's many outreach efforts
    UC Santa Barbara takes outreach to a new level, with a variety of programs that extend the campus’s impact to a host of communities — and countries
  • UCSB is delivering on its promise of additional university housing for undergrads
  • UCSB students have been taking advantage of the big waves spawned by Hurricane Marie.
  • A look back at how UC Santa Barbara students, faculty and staff pulled together to grieve, remember and start the healing process after the tragedy in Isla Vista.

  • Awards recognize extraordinary scholastic achievement, service to the university and community and personal courage
  • UCSB, students, Storke Tower
    Chancellor Henry T. Yang opened Storke Tower to UC Santa Barbara students on Friday, May 22, to fulfill the promise he made last year for the University of California Promise for Education campaign.
  • The Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors passed a resolution on Tuesday, May 6, recognizing UC Santa Barbara for Promotion of Health in Santa Barbara County.

  • It’s the ultimate brag book. Except it’s a website, and it isn’t so much bragging as it is highlighting points of pride.

  • Campus notches a new milestone with record number of undergrad applications, reflecting growing demand for a UCSB education
  • Dr. Mary Ferris, director of Student Health at UC Santa Barbara, answers questions about meningitis and meningococcal disease.

  • A new suicide prevention outreach effort is designed to encourage everyone in the campus community to speak up for people in distress.
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