Commencement 2026 celebrates accomplishment, purpose and community

All the feels, and then some, were on display during UC Santa Barbara's annual commencement festivities, which celebrated more than 6,700 students. Congrats, grads!

 

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UCSB Graduate Division marks milestone year

More than 600 master’s and Ph.D. students crossed the commencement stage to collect their diplomas in 2026, the division’s largest graduating group in a decade.

 

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Yang group develops new mechanism for metal carbene radical cross coupling

Chemistry professor Yang Yang and collaborators have developed a new type of reaction, one that employs a mechanism that was until now unknown to both native enzymatic and synthetic chemistry.

 

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