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Empowerment, discovery, achievement, and humanitarianism were the predominant themes during UC Santa Barbara Graduate Division’s 2015 Commencement celebration.

Of the 423 students participating in this Sunday’s Graduate Division Commencement ceremony, nearly half will have the privilege of wearing the doctoral hood. To avoid a hooding horror story, the UC Santa Barbara Graduate Division has produced a how-to video.

Graduate Division Assistant Dean Christian Villasenor was presented with the 2014-15 Margaret T. Getman Service to Students Award at the Student Affairs divisional meeting in Corwin Pavilion.

UC Santa Barbara Ph.D. students and mentors Stacy Copp and William Ryan have been named recipients of the Fiona Goodchild Award for Excellence as Graduate Student Mentors of Undergraduate Research.

The UC Santa Barbara Graduate Division is pleased to announce the publication of the inaugural Graduate Education magazine. The magazine showcases the “spirited and creative thinkers” who make up UC Santa Barbara’s graduate student body.

When Ph.D. candidate Mario Galicia Jr. steps up to the podium at the Graduate Division’s 2015 Commencement ceremony to deliver his address as this year’s student speaker, it will be “a coming full circle moment.”

On and off the court, first-year graduate student Abel Gustafson plays like a champion. He sets goals, reaches them, and doesn't make excuses.

UC Santa Barbara is on top of the world – again. In Leiden University’s annual rankings of the 750 best major universities in the world in terms of impact in the sciences, UCSB was listed at No. 7. The university rose one spot from last year.

Third-year marine science doctoral candidate Karly Miller has wanted to study the ocean for as long as she can remember. Her desire to learn more about the ocean led her across the globe to places as far flung as New Zealand, Ecuador, and Peru. She went on to be selected to represent the United States as a Fulbright Scholar for the 2015-2016 academic year, studying the interactions between tourism and artesenal fisheries in Bahia Malaga on the Pacific Coast of Colombia

Doctoral candidate in microbiology Selvi Ersoy is many things to many people and most of these things are awesome.

Four UCSB graduate student teaching assistants who are passionate about what they do were honored on April 23 for their efforts in the classroom and beyond.

Find out which of the 10 finalists won the 2015 UCSB Grad Slam!

At last we've arrived at the Final Round for UCSB 2015 Grad Slam. It's been a long, weary road to the Finals and lots of tears were shed on the way, mostly mine. If you weren't one of the hundreds in attendance at Corwin Pavilion on Friday afternoon to bear witness, this is what went down.

When the childhood home of Melissa Barthelemy, a sixth-year graduate student of Public History, burned down in Ojai when she was eight years old, she and her family may have initially thought they only escaped with a few photo albums. But, what they eventually learned was they had gained life lessons in community, compassion, and the generosity of others.

Sara Sutherland is a Ph.D. student in UCSB's economics department. She is charismatic, driven, and lucky – she's graduating! She completed her M.A. in economics here at UCSB and now teaches business and environmental accounting for the Bren School.