UC Santa Barbara's Top News & Featured Events

January 27, 2026

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Distinguished Professor Emeritus Alan Liu stands on the steps of the ILP on UCSB campus

Faculty Research Lecturer Alan Liu ponders ‘good’ knowledge in the age of AI

The English professor discusses how AI judgement, good or bad, can reflect knowledge and social values when implemented in our personal, work and public life.

 

Read more about Liu’s research

Jenni Sorkin in a circle above the UCSB Library with the sun peeking through a tree

Warhol Foundation selects Jenni Sorkin for Arts Writers Award supporting book on 1990s textile art

Her book-in-progress, “Deviant Scale: Cloth at the Body's Margins,” is a critical re-evaluation of textile-based art production in the United States between 1985 and 2000.

 

Read more about Sorkin’s work

A cargo ship at port full of shipping containers

UCSB professor tapped to co-author the seventh IPCC assessment report on climate change mitigation

The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has invited professor Eric Masanet to co-author a key chapter on cutting emissions through reduced consumption.

 

Read more about the seventh report

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▤ Featured Events

Terence Blanchard and Ravi Coltrane

POSTPONED: Terence Blanchard and Ravi Coltrane

Tuesday, January 27

The event will be rescheduled at a later date.

Linda Murray stands at a podium

Dancing the Archive: On Collecting and Archival Erasure

Tuesday, February 3

Linda Murray, curator of dance at the Lincoln Center, speaks as part of the Colloquia in Theater, Dance and Performance Studies.

Davóne Tines wears a suit

Davóne Tines

Wednesday, February 4

The bass-baritone singer hosts a masterclass, featuring four talented UCSB voice students performing works by Fauré, Schumann, Rossini and Labenske.

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