UC Santa Barbara's Top News & Featured Events

May 19, 2026

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Yuheng Bu on the UC Santa Barbara campus

Yuheng Bu seeks a better way to ensure the trustworthiness of AI-generated text

The assistant professor of computer science has received a prestigious Early CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation for his project to advance watermarking.

Read more about his project

Alexis Childress, Experienced Isolation: Home, 2025, Digital Sculpture

MFA students featured in exhibition at AD&A Museum

Collectively, their work asks visitors to examine their own perceptions of fault lines as not only splits, but also openings in existing, constructed and imagined realms.

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UC Santa Barbara workers play bean bag toss

UCSB’s United for Education campaign leverages small acts for big community impact

Working together, the campus and United Way of Santa Barbara County in the past 30 years have garnered $3.1 million to directly support local service programs and educational initiatives for children in the county.

Read more about the campaign

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▤ Featured Events

Cultural Capital poster

Cultural Capital: African Art, Repatriation, and Restitution

Tuesday, May 19

The film follows the lives of African artworks from their origins in ancestral shrines and royal courts, through looting and colonial markets, into the glass cases of major Western museums.

Standing Still poster

Standing Still

Tuesday, May 19

Running through May 23, the new work by playwright Melinda Lopez is the newest preview production of the theater and dance program, LAUNCH PAD.

Self as Montage art

Self as Montage in Latent Space

Thursday, June 4

A guided walkthrough and discussion of artist Vivek Karthikeyan’s immersive expanded cinema installation is part of the MFA Thesis Exhibition “Faultlines.”

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