’Tis the season: Here comes Commencement
UC Santa Barbara commencement activities to run June 11–18; the university will celebrate 6,761 graduates for 2022–2023
View ArticleUniversity names winners of Thomas More Storke Award and other major prizes...
UC Santa Barbara awards its top student honors for scholastic achievement, extraordinary service and personal courage and persistence
View ArticleGraduating seniors look back on their college experience by revisiting...
Graduating seniors look back on their college experience by revisiting themselves as freshmen
View ArticleWith its new season of performances and programs UCSB Arts & Lectures...
On the roster for 2023–2024 is the award-winning New York City Ballet principal dancer Tiler Peck, who will perform in her program “Turn It Out with Tiler Peck & Friends.”
View ArticleThis summer, take a free bus ride from campus to the courthouse for open-air...
UC Santa Barbara students with valid ID can take a free round-trip bus ride from campus to the courthouse in downtown Santa Barbara.
View ArticleTake a peek — and make a pick — for UCSB Reads 2024
UCSB Library announces shortlist of books in the running, and invites votes, for new season of its campuswide reading program
View ArticleLibrary collaboration showcases Santa Barbara community history
UC Santa Barbara Library's Community Archives Project will showcase family photos and home videos, plus talks on local history, at a free event on Aug. 19 at the Eastside Library downtown.
View ArticlePrescribed burn at North Campus Open Space will revive an ancient tradition
Indigenous burning practices will return to coastal Southern California this fall with a one-day burn at UC Santa Barbara’s North Campus Open Space
View ArticleThe current landscape of women’s health — and how it might be improved
Neuroscientist Emily Jacobs to shed light on women’s health inequality at event for newly formed Santa Barbara Women’s Health Coalition
View ArticleFor the seventh year straight, UC Santa Barbara is named Best Place to Work
The campus takes top workplace honors — again — in the Santa Barbara Independent's annual readers' poll.
View ArticleWorking toward a clean energy future, the university launches a campus...
With an allocation from UC of $1 million to study decarbonization on campus, UC Santa Barbara launches its Clean Energy Master Plan
View ArticleThe campus teams with students, neighbors and local agencies to ensure...
UC Santa Barbara has partnered with its students and with the broader community to develop an array of rules, regulations, safety enhancement and alternative events from Oct. 26 – Oct. 31
View ArticleUCSB Reads selects “Your Brain on Art” for its 18th season
The university's campus-community reading program for the first time chooses a book about the impact of art
View Article‘Sharing knowledge across communities to improve lives around the world’
For the third year in a row, UC Santa Barbara has been named a Fulbright HSI Leader by the U.S. Department of State
View ArticleNew trustees bring ‘unique vision, leadership and passion’ to the...
Eight individuals — six of them alumni — have been named as new trustees of the UC Santa Barbara Foundation for the current academic year
View ArticleShowing high school students how education, leadership and careers intertwine
UC Santa Barbara Early Academic Outreach Program to host 300 students from six school districts for 11th annual Education, Leadership, and Careers Conference
View ArticleToward understanding, healing and transformation
Author Resmaa Menakem to discuss his work on intergenerational racial and historical trauma as part of UCSB Arts & Lectures 'Justice for All' series
View ArticleRenowned paleoclimatologist Michael Mann on how to survive the climate crisis
Courtesy of UCSB Arts & Lectures, Mann will appear on campus in a pair of free events that help to launch the UCSB Campus Decarbonization Study Project.
View ArticleUniversity progresses on development plans to expand student housing
The first phase of the two-part project includes 2,250 new student beds and is expected to be ready for occupancy by the fall of 2027; an additional 1,250 beds are projected to be completed by 2029.
View ArticleGrad Slam 2024: Diverse 3-minute talks, cash prizes
Grad Slam Showcase 2024 promises to bring just as much diversity in disciplines and research presented. A record number of folks — 15 candidates — have signed up to compete from the humanities and fine...
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