UC Santa Barbara's Top News & Featured Events

May 5, 2026

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Integrated land planning is necessary to meet climate, food and biodiversity goals

We need to use the same land to serve multiple needs — like conservation, food and energy — or risk certain sectors undermining others.

 

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A stop sign 29 miles from Corcoran

UCSB launches bachelor’s degree for incarcerated individuals at Corcoran State Prison

Beginning in 2027, a B.A. in comparative literature will be offered to qualified students incarcerated at CSP-Corcoran, the first offering of its kind by a UC in a California prison.

 

Read more about the program

A bundle of kelp on a sandy beach

Kelp forests connected to sandy beach food webs

Through a paper published in Nature Scientific Reports, lead author Kyle Emery and colleagues quantify and characterize connections between the beach and the nearshore.

 

Read more about their findings

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Christian Santos squats on the stage of a church holding a viola

From Bach to Penderecki

Wednesday, May 6

Master’s student Christian Santos gives a recital on the viola, accompanied by Natasha Kislenko on piano, performing works by Bach, Schumann, Penderecki and Brahms.

An Anti-ICE Protest

On Fire Talk: Mass Deportation as Racial Engineering

Thursday, May 7

Ahilan T. Arulanantham of the UCLA School of Law discusses the role of race discrimination in immigration and refugee policy.

Jessie Buckley from 'Hamnet'

Storytelling for the Screen: Hamnet

Thursday, May 14

Jean Feerick of John Carroll University joins moderator Jim Kearney of the English department for pre- and post-screening discussions of the 2025 film.

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