UC Santa Barbara's Top News & Featured Events

March 5, 2026

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Could quantum computers protect privacy and security?

With a new NSF award, computer science associate professor Prabhanjan Ananth will study the foundations of quantum computing as a cryptographic tool.

 

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UCSB Dance Company to debut ‘Convergence’ before European tour

The professional dance troupe will premiere a new contemporary dance program this March before taking it on tour.

 

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UCSB Library launches ‘AI in Action’ speaker series

Faculty members discuss the use of AI in their research, reflecting how the rapidly advancing technology can deepen understanding, expand access to knowledge and inspire new forms of scholarship.

 

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▤ Featured Events

Jakub Polaczyk

Corwin Chair Lecture Series

Tuesday, March 10

Jakub Polaczyk explores compositional techniques and his concept of the musical diary, in which works function as layered records of personal, historical and cultural experience.

Andrew A. Watts

Profs at the Pub

Wednesday, March 11

Composer Andrew A. Watts discusses the creative process in his recent video work, covering topics including data sonification, glitch and multimedia applications of artificial intelligence.

Bruce Tiffney

The Origins of the modern Flora of California

Thursday, March 12

Professor Emeritus Bruce Tiffney explores the roots of changing climates, continental positions and the evolution of plants familiar and unfamiliar.

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▤ UC Santa Barbara in the News

Smithsonian Magazine • Apr 12, 2023

Panamanian Golden Frogs Disappeared From the Wild Due to a Deadly Fungus. Now, Scientists Are Returning Them to Nature

Tom Smith, a biologist at the University of California, Santa Barbara, has seen this happen with certain frogs in the Sierra Nevada mountains in California. “These populations have now been living with that pathogen for several generations across several decades, and we’re actually seeing adaptation and evolution to that in some of the populations,” he tells Smithsonian magazine.

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