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The UCSB Work-Life Resources Program will host a Bright Horizons Family Solutions Benefit Overview this Thursday, March 23. Join to learn more about your family support benefits that will help you manage the many responsibilities you have.

UCSB Career Services and the GSRC are recruiting two Graduate Career positions, to begin employment in Summer 2023 and run through Spring quarter 2024. The position will help graduate students on issues related to career development including direct service and programming development and support.

Nominations are open for the 2023 Graduate Division Commencement Student Speaker! Faculty, staff, and graduate students may nominate a student for the 2023 Commencement ceremony. Students can also self-nominate with a letter of faculty support. Submit by Monday, April 3.

Join the Graduate Center for Literary Research (GCLR) next Monday, March 20 from 3-4:30pm for "Art, Art History and Artificial Intelligence," a talk by Dr. Leonardo Impett from Cambridge University, UK.

Adele Myers, Ph.D in the BioShape Lab, will give a public lecture, "Unlocking Mysteries of the Female Brain," at Brass Bear Brewing in downtown Santa Barbara on March 21 at 7pm! Join her as she delves into the understudied field of female reproductive health and its effects on the brain.

UCSB is looking for singers to perform the Alma Mater and National Anthem during the Commencement 2023 ceremonies. Sign up for an audition time by April 21.

Are you interested in learning more about DEIA teaching practices, and finding a community of other like-minded instructors? Come to the Inclusive Teaching Symposium on March 20. The event will feature presentations on current inclusive pedagogy projects at UCSB, lightning talks from DEI Discussions reading group participants, and a Q&A session with Drs. Viji Sathy & Kelly Hogan.

Join University and Community Housing Services on April 5 at 12p via Zoom to learn what housing is available near UCSB for 2023-2024. If you have questions, bring them!

This Thursday at the the MCC Theatre: "Lethal Democracies: Racial Terror and Abolition." This event will feature a screening of the documentary The Mother followed by a panel discussion, "Maternal Black Insurgency."

Join UCSB Library on March 22 at 5pm for "Straight from the Source: The Source Family Archive with Isis Aquarian." This event features a conversation with Isis Aquarian about her life with the Source Family, a commune in Los Angeles in the early 1970s.

What if you had the opportunity to talk about your research any way you wanted to? What is it about your research that motivates you? At Lunch & Learn, we want to know! Presenters are needed for our Summer events, as well as those for the 2023-24 academic year. Sign up to present your research in a fun, informal 15-minute presentation.

Join UCSB's Center for Black Studies Research as they welcome Assistant Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Yale University, Dr. Brandon Ogbunu, for his talk "Mending a Broken Biology: Human Diversity, Disinformation, and a New Way Forward"!

Learn how you can propel your research into a startup and receive a $50,000 grant! The National Science Foundation's Innovation Corps (I-Corps) program is an entrepreneurial training program for university-based STEM researchers and early-stage startup founders with the primary purpose to support the transition of laboratory discoveries into breakthrough innovations.

The Division of Social Sciences and the Department of Black Studies will be hosting UCSB alumna Sarah Eisner '93 and Randy Quarterman, co-founders of The Reparations Project, on March 7 from 4-6p. The talk, which is followed by a reception, will be held at the MultiCultural Center.

The Public Domain Players present to you Finding Jud(a)ea, a brand new play written and directed by Grace Kimball, PhD Student in Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies at UCSB. Finding Jud(a)ea will premiere on March 3 at the Isla Vista Community Center, with additional stagings on March 4 & 5.