Career & Tools
Join us for Lunch & Learn, where you'll have the chance to socialize with other grad students and hear talks by students in Materials and Communication. While we won't be able to share pizza in person, all attendees will be entered into a raffle to win a $15 Target gift card.
Join us for Lunch & Learn, where you'll have the chance to socialize with other grad students and hear talks by students in Materials and Communication. Lunch & Learn is co-sponsored by the Graduate Division, the Graduate Student Association, and the UCSB Library.
While we won't be able to share pizza together in person, all attendees will be entered into a raffle to win one of ten $15 Target gift cards.
May 2021 Edition: Polymers & Precarious Identities
May 14, 12-1:15pm
Zoom*
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My Linh Le
Conjugated polymers are an important class of materials utilized in many optoelectronic applications. Due to their hydrophobic backbones, these polymers are commonly processed in solutions using organic solvents. There has been a rising need for replacing these organic solvents with water to achieve more environmentally benign processing routes and to widen the usage of these materials in biological applications. In this project, I demonstrate the utilization of polyelectrolyte coacervation phenomenon to process extremely high polymer loading in water, providing a promising route to achieve effective aqueous formulation of conjugated polymers.
The Precariousness of Marginalized Identities: Transgender Identity After Death
Stephenson Brooks Whitestone
Graduate Student in Communication
My research focuses on the symbolically violent act of de-transitioning transgender, non-binary, and gender-nonconforming people after their deaths. I explore the manner in which family members become empowered to not only enact the identity of the diseased, but to alter or re-frame that identity. More broadly, my research calls attention to the ability of agents and institutions from the dominant culture to distort, diminish and/or disappear the identities of vulnerable individuals and communities. I ask the question, "Who is it who is empowered to tell you who you are?"
This event will be moderated by Dr. Don Lubach, Associate Ombuds at UCSB.
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