Health and Wellness is offering a cooking class just for graduate students that will be focused on Asian cooking! Explore Asian cooking with a vegetarian twist as you try your hand at several different dishes on Zoom! ​Health & Wellness will have breakout room "stations" that participants will visit including Korean Tuna Pancakes, Fresh Spring Rolls, and Soba Noodle Salad. RSVP to receive the ingredients list!

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Join the MCC tomorrow evening for a Zoom workshop from the MCC's Empowering Student Leaders Series. Artist-healer Thea Monyee will lead a conversation about how to use the challenges of living through a pandemic to resurrect connections to ancestral, elder, and natural knowledge for survival and to thrive in the midst of a crisis.

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During a time of enormous uncertainty and loss, the MCC would like to offer BIPOC graduate students of UCSB a moment of pause and collective care. Join yoga psychotherapist Kala Lacy on May 6th at 11am for a guided meditation and conversation about grief and the importance of creating time for grief in community and social movement spaces. RSVP for the Zoom link!

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Are you feeling like this just wasn't the year to be truly productive? Are you hoping to turn things around with your writing this summer? Read on for tips from the National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity (NCFDD), an independent professional development, training, and mentoring community. Membership (free for UCSB students!) provides several forms of professional support to help combat common problems academics face - find out more here.

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This workshop on May 14 will teach participants what the various modes of revision are. From there, it will explore assorted comments students receive on their writing and connect those comments to the appropriate mode of revision. Finally, we will present strategies and exercises for how to engage each type of revision so that students can hone their revision skills. RSVP today!

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