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UC Santa Barbara’s Top News & Featured Events [UC Santa Barbara’s Top News & Featured Events] [Alternate text]( June 13, 2024 ▤ Top News [Shadoe Neri-Dewitt ’24]( [How a transfer student veteran went from Navy to neuroscience]( Shadoe Neri-Dewitt, a former Navy enlistee and nuclear engineer, transferred to UC Santa Barbara to pursue his interest in psychology and research. [Read more about Neri-Dewitt’s journey]( [Michelle Ramos Ramirez ’24]( [UCSB’s ÉXITO Program graduates third cohort of future ethnic studies teachers amidst rising attacks on ethnic studies]( Designed for highly motivated students, the first of its kind program in the UC system provides undergraduates with a clearly structured pathway to becoming credentialed K-12 teachers. [Read more about ÉXITO]( [Andrew Smith '24]( [Despite extraordinary challenges, undergraduate Andrew Smith prevails]( Set to graduate this week after overcoming a life-altering accident and addiction, Smith also has received the 2024 Alyce Marita Whitted Memorial Award, which recognizes a nontraditional student’s endurance, persistence and courage. [Read more about Smith's story]( [More News]( ▤ Featured Events [DEVIATE graphic]( [2024 Undergraduate Art Exhibition]( June 14, 2024 DEVIATE, representing over 75 student works, celebrates the conceptual and material divergences that students often take during their art education. An opening reception will be held at the Art, Design & Architecture Museum at 3:30 p.m. [Archives Unbound: 50 Years of Hope, Resistance, and Rebellion]( Through June 28, 2024 The exhibition highlights the Cedric J. and Elizabeth P. Robinson Archive, a collection of papers, ephemera and digital materials. [Blue Crush]( July 26, 2024 The UCSB Arts & Lectures series “Sun, Surf and Cinema” screens the 2002 sports drama centered on a trio of female professional surfers. [More Events]( Explore [Arts]( [Science & Technology]( [Society & Culture]( [Campus & Community]( [Events]( [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Instagram]( [Vimeo]( [LinkedIn]( [RSS Feeds]( Choose the emails you would like to receive by [managing your preferences](. If you do not wish to receive any emails from UC Santa Barbara Institutional Advancement (this includes event invitations, newsletters, networking opportunities and stories of philanthropy), you can [opt out of them ALL](. Got this as a forward [Sign up]( to receive our future emails. View this email [online](. UC Santa Barbara | Santa Barbara, CA 93106 US This email was sent to {EMAIL}. To continue receiving our emails, add us to your address book.