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Jan 16, 2025 · The Current is UC Santa Barbara's official news site updated daily with breaking news, events, and research news from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
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Jan 15, 2025 · UC Santa Barbara associate professor Leah Stokes researches public policy, public opinion and political behavior, with a focus on energy, environment and climate change.
UCSB is well positioned for fire preparedness | The Current
5 days ago · Santa Barbara’s year-round sunshine and good weather make it an attractive tourist destination and a paradise for UC Santa Barbara’s campus community. However, the Southern Californian climate is inseparable with the cycle of wildfires that grip the state every year. Fortunately, the geography ...
UC Santa Barbara heads to State Street | The Current
Jan 16, 2025 · Intending to have a larger presence in the downtown area, and to work with the City of Santa Barbara and the community to support the revitalization of Santa Barbara’s primary business corridor, UC Santa Barbara received approval from the UC Regents to acquire property on State Street. The mixed-use portfolio on both State and Gutierrez streets, which includes significant commercial space ...
UC Santa Barbara joins consortium of universities carrying out …
Nov 5, 2024 · This collaborative endeavor just got a boost at UC Santa Barbara, where faculty already have their fingers in many pies. UCSB has joined the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR). Despite its name, UCAR is actually a nonprofit consortium of more than 120 North American colleges and universities that advances understanding of Earth system sciences, especially the atmosphere ...
University progresses on development plans to expand student …
Feb 22, 2024 · With a goal to expand residential housing for students, UC Santa Barbara continues to advance on a development plan that will create 3,500 new student beds on the main campus, in accordance with the targets highlighted in the university’s 2010 Long Range Development Plan (LRDP). The first phase of the two-part project includes 2,100 new student beds and is expected to be ready for occupancy ...
The university’s foundation board adds new trustees, welcomes …
Oct 31, 2024 · Four new individuals — all of them alumni — have been elected to the UC Santa Barbara Foundation Board of Trustees, while Sue Wilcox ’70, ’72, ’75 takes over as board chair.
UC Santa Barbara ranks among top universities nationally and …
Oct 17, 2024 · For affordability, social mobility, research impact, academics and other metrics, the campus is again considered among the nation’s — and the world’s — top universities, according to myriad recent rankings.
UC Santa Barbara to lead NSF-funded research institute for next …
May 4, 2023 · “AI is used routinely now, for things like malware analysis to identify malicious documents and malicious webpages,” said UC Santa Barbara computer science professor and cybersecurity expert Giovanni Vigna, who will head this $20 million, five-year project. “What we don’t have are entities that are capable of reasoning. This is an opportunity to bring artificial intelligence and ...
From impact to academics to outcomes, UC Santa Barbara ranks …
Sep 18, 2023 · In student outcomes and academics. In affordability and social mobility. For return on investment. For overall excellence. In multiple rankings across an array of metrics, UC Santa Barbara continues to place in the upper echelons of higher education. Forbes Magazine, which showcased 500 of the finest U.S. institutions of higher education in its 2023 America’s Top Colleges list, ranked UC ...