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UCSB and Tuskegee summer screenwriting students pose with Disney development executives in front of a Disney castle backdrop during a behind-the-scenes visit.

UCSB-Tuskegee students explore entertainment careers during Disney visit

UC Santa Barbara and Tuskegee University students in a summer screenwriting collaboration met Disney executives, explored professional pathways in television and left with new contacts and a stronger sense that entertainment careers were within reach.

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Two paths to public service: UCSB’s Lafayette Fellows reflect from France

Inaugural Lafayette Fellows Enri Lala ’26 and Matthieu Huy ’24 trace how UCSB mentors, interdisciplinary study and research shaped their paths to graduate study and public service in France.

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UC Santa Barbara introduces Environmental Humanities Minor

The new Environmental Humanities Minor connects literature, history, ethics and the arts with environmental questions, offering students across majors an interdisciplinary course of study.

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Comparative Literature launches Childhood and Youth Studies minor

A new interdisciplinary minor will examine childhood and youth through courses from across the College of Letters and Science, culminating in a capstone experience.

Sara Poot-Herrera smiles for a portrait, wearing a red scarf and pearl earrings.

Sara Poot-Herrera receives Universidad Veracruzana's Medal of Merit

Distinguished professor emerita Sara Poot-Herrera received the Universidad Veracruzana Medal of Merit, recognizing her scholarship, teaching and cultural leadership.

Artist Sarah Rosalena stands before a large red, blue, white and black textile work in LACMA’s David Geffen Galleries.

Sarah Rosalena creates monumental textile work for LACMA's new galleries

UC Santa Barbara artist Sarah Rosalena has created a 27-foot textile commissioned by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art for its new David Geffen Galleries.

Actors in period workwear and a prosthetic pig mask perform on a dramatically lit stage with hay bales in UC Santa Barbara's production of Animal Farm.

Three graduating Theater and Dance students earn 2026 Indy Awards

Costume and lighting design for “Animal Farm” and “The Tempest” earned student honors alongside recognition for Department of Theater and Dance faculty, staff and an alum.

Book cover for Purity Culture, Bodies, and Beliefs featuring large white lettering over a dark purple, blue, and green floral collage.

Writing Program scholar Victoria Houser examines purity culture’s lasting effects

The assistant teaching professor co-edited “Purity Culture, Bodies, and Beliefs,” a collection examining religious trauma, bodily autonomy and pathways toward healing.

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UCSB-Tuskegee students explore entertainment careers during Disney visit

Two paths to public service: UCSB’s Lafayette Fellows reflect from France

UC Santa Barbara introduces Environmental Humanities Minor

Comparative Literature launches Childhood and Youth Studies minor

Sara Poot-Herrera receives Universidad Veracruzana's Medal of Merit

Sarah Rosalena creates monumental textile work for LACMA's new galleries

Three graduating Theater and Dance students earn 2026 Indy Awards

Writing Program scholar Victoria Houser examines purity culture’s lasting effects

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