Events & Exhibitions on 08/26/2026

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Collage of UCSB Reads badges from 2007 to 2026
  • Mon, 01/05/2026 - 8:00am to Tue, 01/19/2027 - 4:00pm
Location: Ocean Gallery
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Since 2007, UCSB Reads has fostered a shared sense of belonging by bringing the UCSB campus and Santa Barbara communities together to read a common book that explores compelling issues of our time. Conceived by then Executive Vice Chancellor Gene Lucas, the award-winning...

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A EAP student posing with two shaggy Highland cows lying a grassy hillside in Scotland.
  • Mon, 02/09/2026 - 4:00pm to Sat, 09/05/2026 - 4:00pm
Location: Mountain Gallery
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More than 1,200 UCSB students annually participate in the UCSB Education Abroad Program (EAP) to study, intern, and conduct research in 35+ countries, earning UC credit toward majors, minors, and general education requirements.  Returning students are invited...

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The Catalyst in front of Legos
  • Mon, 03/30/2026 - 9:00am to Tue, 09/15/2026 - 9:00am
Location: Makerspace
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This exhibition features a custom built LEGO® printshop and the UCSB Story Printer. Visitors are invited to engage with the display by taking a magazine or printing a short story or poem to take with them.

The project is set in a world long abandoned by humanity and exhausted of its...

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Offset grid of undergraduate research posters
  • Wed, 07/15/2026 - 9:00am to Sat, 12/12/2026 - 4:00pm
Location: Mountain Gallery
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This exhibition showcases fifteen research posters selected by a jury of UCSB librarians during the UCSB Office of Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities’ 2026 Poster Colloquium. Outstanding undergraduate research from the humanities and fine arts, social sciences, and science,...

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Creative Currents Archival Image
  • Mon, 07/20/2026 - 9:00am to Sat, 03/20/2027 - 4:00pm
Location: Sara Miller McCune Arts Library
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The study of the arts is an essential element of a classical education. With world-renowned faculty in Art & Architecture, Dance, Film & Media Studies, Music, Studio Art, and Theater, and the nation’s only Bachelor’s degree in the field of Book Arts, UCSB enables students of all...

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Women's Basketball game in Harder Stadium with cheering fans
  • Wed, 08/26/2026 - 9:00am to Wed, 07/07/2027 - 4:00pm
Location: Special Research Collections
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On a Tuesday morning in September 1934, Coach “Spud” Harder stood before the student body to announce a “New Deal” for athletics, rallying the campus around the bold new emblem: “El Gaucho.” To spread the word, he introduced a football schedule tire cover similar to the one displayed below to...