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We sat down with Rosie Bermudez to discuss how her personal experience inspired her research on activist Alicia Escalante, the importance of diversity in graduate education, and what she hopes to accomplish after receiving her Ph.D.

We caught up with Molly Clementz to find out what she thinks about​ portraying wild characters during her second time on the Opera Santa Barbara stage, her graduate school experience here at UCSB, and what inspires her love of opera.

David McIntosh – History Ph.D. student, Graduate Student Association President, and Humanities Without Walls Fellow – sat down to tell us about his career journey from computer nerd to historian, why he chose UCSB, and how Mr. Spock gave him words to live by.

Meet Maria D. Vazquez, a Graduate Scholar and second-year Ph.D. student in the Counseling, Clinical, and School Psychology program. Read on to learn more about her upbringing, her research, and some words of wisdom on how she is surviving graduate school.

Are you interested in a career in college and university teaching? Do you want to improve your teaching and gain valuable pedagogical insight and training? Then sign up for the ​first-ever course offering from the UCSB Graduate Division!

Don't miss the opportunity to win fame and fortune! The deadline to register for the 2017 Grad Slam competition has been extended until Wednesday, February 15, at 5 p.m.

You’ve been hearing about Grad Slam for weeks now, but what is it really all about? Learn more and head to the sign up page before registration ends today!

Physics doctoral candidate Claire McLellan, who works as a graduate research assistant in Dr. Ania Bleszynski Jayich’s Quantum Sensing and Imaging Group at UCSB, won both the Materials Research Society Graduate Student Gold Award and the Arthur Nowick Graduate Student Award.

The 2017 Grad Slam competition will take place April 10-21. Sign up today for the chance to publicize your research, hone your presentation skills, and win thousands of dollars! Registration closes on Friday, February 10.

Meet Nicole Poletto – Bren student, figure skater extraordinaire, and the Graduate Division's new Professional Development Peer Advisor. Read on to find out more about how she got her start in environmental science, her favorite things about grad school, and her professional goals.

On September 27, the Graduate Division hosted dozens of new graduate students, faculty, and administrators at UCSB’s first-ever Diversity Matters reception, welcoming what has been described as UCSB’s most diverse class of graduate students ever.

Meet the new Graduate Career Peer Erik Martinez! He is a Master's student at the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management and he is here to support his fellow graduate students in their career development.

UC Santa Barbara welcomes ​769 new graduate students into its ranks next ​week, and this group of incoming students is one of our most diverse ever. Here, we break down the statistics on our incoming graduate student cohort and introduce you to several of our new students.

Kali Yamboliev, a doctoral candidate studying medieval Mediterranean history, exemplifies the diversity and achievements of UCSB students. She sat down to talk with us about her upcoming year abroad as a Fulbright Fellow and how she learned to balance work and life in grad school.

For eight weeks this summer, undergraduate scholars from across the country traveled to UCSB to participate in three research programs hosted by the Graduate Division that allowed them to conduct research in their fields of interest under the guidance of a faculty and graduate student mentor.