The campus again lands in U.S. News & World Report’s Top 10, ranking No. 7 among the country’s top public universities.

The Art, Design & Architecture Museum presents Native American artist Ishi Glinsky’s first-ever museum show.

Membership in the Alliance of Hispanic-Serving Research Universities is among robust campus efforts to grow the academic pipeline, create opportunities and advance diversity.

As for those electric cars, they could become a powerful tool for stabilizing the grid, rather than crushing it. Their batteries could supply power back to the grid in times of need, then recharge later, when electricity supplies rise. “They’re giant batteries,” said Leah Stokes, a longtime climate advocate and a political scientist at the University of California at Santa Barbara. “It makes the grid more resilient, not less.”