Wellness and Work-life Balance

If you want to ​stay informed of what's going on this week and every week, check out these links for fun and useful events going on at UCSB.

CAPS currently has 1-2 spots for graduate students interested in joining their process groups, which are designed for students who want to explore ways to build intimacy, work on the interpersonal aspects of anxiety and depression, and become more aware of their actions and communication styles.

Health & Wellness will be offering free 10​-minute chair massages in the GSA Lounge on Wednesday, October 5, from 12:30-3:30 p.m.

The UCSB Student Health Center will be offering flu shots at their upcoming Flu Shot Clinics, starting September 30. It's free with your Gaucho Health Insurance (GHI) or it costs $30 without GHI.

Do you ever feel stressed or have anxiety from your graduate program? Do you find yourself needing to talk someone about what you are ​going through? Then the Hosford Counseling and Psychological Services clinic may be a great option for you!

In the mood for some seafood? Three seafood-loving graduating master's students who are researching how and why people purchase seafood are looking for you and your appetite.

If you're free this weekend, take a trip ​down town to the Old Mission to check out the 2016 ​I ​Madonnari street painting festival.

Come to the end-of-the-year show "White Noise" by the Media Arts and Technology program. ​See the showcase of new graduate student and faculty work connecting emergent media, computer science, engineering, architecture, electronic music, haptics, and digital art research.

Getting a good microbrew in Goleta ​is getting easier and easier. So if you don’t fancy ​th​at super "long" drive to downtown Santa Barbara for a brew, then try one of the four microbreweries close to campus.

The cookoff competition is open to graduate students, faculty, and staff of any department. There are four categories of competition (Meat, Vegetarian, Cornbread, and Best Presentation*), and 1st and 2nd place prizes will be awarded by the votes of all those who eat.

Artwork from 2016 MFA graduates Emily Baker, Vanesa Gingold, Morgan McAllister, Tom Pazderka, George Sanders, and Shannon Willis will be on display at an exhibition and reception at the UCSB Art, Design, & Architecture Museum.

Dr. Emin Gün Sirer will be discussing the future of Bitcoin and electronic money on May 18 through the SAGE Center.

Classics Ph.D. student Derek Haddad reviews the Theater and Dance play within a play, "Too Much Water."

The first-year MFA students at UCSB ​will present their work to the public at an exhibition in the Red Barn. Six artists will be featured in this show: Rose Briccetti, Marcos Christodoulou, Yumiko Glover, Sunny Samuel, Peter Sowinski, and Scotty Slade Wagner.

UCSB Arts & Lectures presents autism self-advocate, animal scientist, and bestselling author Temple Grandin in a lecture titled "Different Kinds of Minds Contribute to Society."