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Matt Perko

University names winners of top student awards for Class of 2025

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Matt Perko

UCSB launches new faculty mentoring program to help new hires adjust and thrive
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Professors Somayeh Dodge and Alan Murray receive UCGIS awards
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Matt Perko

UC Santa Barbara commencement events to celebrate 7,460 graduates for 2024–2025
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Matt Perko
Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky, December 2024

Hamed-Troyansky’s “Empire of Refugees” wins multiple book prizes
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Outgoing Graduate Division Interim Dean Leila Rupp (left) and incoming Janine Jones

Interim Graduate Dean Leila Rupp to pass torch to Janine Jones
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National Book Award winner Jason De León uncovers stories at the U.S.-Mexico border
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Author Ross Gay caps off UCSB Reads 2025 with appearance on campus
James B. Milliken
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Charlie Palafox, University of Texas
James B. Milliken

James B. Milliken named 22nd president of the University of California
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Irene Beyerlein

Professor Irene Beyerlein elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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Design justice scholar Sasha Costanza-Chock to speak at Center for Black Studies Research
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Melody Jue
A scuba diver pictured with a colony of soft corals in Fiji, 2020

‘Coralations’ Q&A with author Melody Jue
AI making connections

UCSB to host second annual AI Spring Symposium
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