Community Outreach

May 11, 2025

UCSB Moot Court team members gain legal insights, place at nationals

By Iris Guo

Members of UCSB Moot Court qualified for the American Moot Court Association’s National Tournament earlier this year.

May 9, 2025

TASA hosts annual night market, promotes community

By Maggie Burt

The Taiwanese American Student Association hosted their 18th annual night market on May 3 in Storke Plaza.

May 9, 2025

AIISA, AIICRC honor Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Relatives at MCC

By Katie Poon

The American Indian and Indigenous Student Association and American Indian and Indigenous Cultural Resource Center commemorated Missing and Murdered Indigenous Relatives Awareness Month.

May 8, 2025

El Congreso urges Chancellor Yang to meet demands before leaving

By Lizzy Rager

After three years since meeting with Chancellor Yang and delivering their demands, a student activist group has asked him to respond before retiring this year

May 5, 2025

Vietnamese Student Association remembers fall of Saigon ahead of 50th anniversary

By Levi Kauffman

The VSA hosted their x annual Black April or “Tháng Tư Đen” event on April 24, a yearly commemoration of the fall of Saigon and the end of the Vietnam War on April 30, 1975.

May 2, 2025

Blum Center panel highlights student housing crisis, potential solutions

By Levi Kauffman

The Blum Center hosted a panel about the current housing crisis in Isla Vista and invited students to learn and share their housing experiences.

May 2, 2025

Campus resources for trans students

By Michelle Cisneros

This past week, the Resource Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity held its sixth annual Trans Week of Visibility. The center offers resources year-round. 

May 1, 2025

Pete Buttigieg discusses Trump admin, youth engagement

By Lauren Chiou, Conor Kelly

Pete Buttigieg spoke at the Arlington Theatre where he spoke on his life in government and what he thinks needs to be done in the midst of Trump's second term.

May 1, 2025

Students rally and hold vigil to remember lives lost in Armenian Genocide

By Lizzy Rager

The Armenian Student Association has called for UCSB to acknowledge April 24 as Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day and establish April as Armenian Heritage Month

April 28, 2025

UCSB organizations help students make Earth Day every day

By Maggie Burt

UC Santa Barbara organizations are hosting Earth Day events throughout this week, showing how individual sustainability efforts can help protect the environment and the planet.

April 18, 2025

Students spread joy and colors in Holi celebration

By Alessandra Panetta

Indus held its Holi celebration in Little Acorn Park on April 13. Participants' clothing was coated in bright pink, green and blue powder for the annual festival of colors.

April 18, 2025

‘Queer Prom’ creates space for celebration of queer unity and belonging

By Iris Guo

The Associated Students Trans & Queer Commission's second annual Queer Prom was held on April 11, hosted as part of TQC’s UCSB Pride Week.

April 14, 2025

Deltopia fosters community, threatens public safety, student leaders weigh in

By Anushka Ghosh Dastidar

Students shared their opinions of the 2025 Deltopia festival. They called for increased medical services and recalled uncomfortable experiences with police.

March 20, 2025

Local first-generation middle, high school students learn about S.T.E.M. careers on MESA Day

By Salma Maytorena

Local middle and high school students presented S.T.E.M. projects and engaged in informational workshops at UC Santa Barbara’s College Destination Day on March 8.

March 9, 2025

Black Women’s Health Collaborative expands since being founded in 2020

By Wynne Bendell

BWHC aims to provide health and wellness services to “Black women and non-men” at UC Santa Barbara. It's the first organization of its kind within the University of California.

March 8, 2025

Sci-Fi writer Nalo Hopkinson discusses Afrofuturism in her work

By Malia Guy

Hopkinson visited Mosher Alumni House on Feb. 21 to discuss her novels and Afrofuturism — a genre that combines science fiction and fantasy with Black culture.