Wellness and Work-life Balance

The Office of Teaching and Learning is seeking graduate students who identify as first-gen college graduates or former transfer students to connect, discuss, or present at the First-Gen & Transfer Scholars Welcome event on Wednesday, September 26.

The Latinxs & the Environment Initiative at UC Riverside invites you to participate in their inaugural research conference. The conference theme is "Conectando a la comunidad Latina en la investigación ambiental y el cambio social." The extended deadline is September 6.

UC Santa Barbara’s National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) 2023 Artists in Residence Exhibition will take place on Sep. 7 from 5-8pm in downtown Santa Barbara. Read on for more information.

Summer is a great time to kick start your writing! Do you need a productive, quiet environment where you can really get things done? Come write alongside your fellow grad students in the Graduate Writers' Room, featuring comfortable seating, snacks, and the best free coffee on campus! Open Tuesdays 10am-4pm.

The ONDAS Student Center is currently recruiting graduate students to participate in "Thriving, Not Surviving: Navigating Higher Education as a First-Generation College Student." This panel discussion and mixer on first-generation college students' experiences will be held on August 30. Graduate Students who participate as a Panelist and/or Mentor Mixer at the event will be compensated.

Check out this great opportunity to serve on the UC Student Association Student Mental Health Oversight Committee. Committee representatives are key in incorporating student needs into the development of systemwide programs and initiatives. Applications are due August 18.

Former Grad Dean Carol Genetti is going to be hosting a Grad Student Give-Away on Saturday, July 22nd from 10am-3pm. Be sure to bring your student ID, and walk away with free quality home goods and furnishings!

Arts & Lectures will be offering free rides to and from the Sunken Garden Cinema Series, which runs Friday nights this summer. This series kicks off at 8:30pm this Friday, July 7, with Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

All are invited to attend two upcoming theater events at the IV Community Center. The Tempest will run June 2-4, and Love & Information will run June 9 & 10.

All grads are invited to an event at Draughtsman Aleworks in Goleta at 7pm on Friday, June 2. PhD students in Mathematics Fabio Ricci and Joel C. Pion will be delivering a joint talk on applied fluid mechanics.

The Bren School of Environmental Science & Management's 2023 Master's of Environmental Data Science Capstone Projects will be presented to the public on Friday, June 2 from 1-4:15pm. This event is free and open to the public.

On June 2 at 7pm, The 2035 Initiative will offer an event featuring writer, historian, and activist Rebecca Solnit.

Join UCSB's Center for Black Studies Research (CBSR) on May 24 for "Learning to See Again with a Bionic Eye," a talk by Dr. Iman Djouini, Assistant Teaching Professor in the College of Creative Studies at UCSB.

Next Monday, May 22, from 3-4pm Katherine Haake, author of The Time of Quarantine and That Water, These Rocks, will attend a Q&A session.

The Dean of Humanities and Fine Arts, the Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor, and the Center for Literature and the Environment cordially invite you to attend the Environmental Humanities Flash Talks Mixer on Thursday, May 11. Please join them for flash talks from faculty in the departments of English, Sociology, Environmental Studies, and more.