In a landmark 5-4 decision on Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marry in all 50 states. Reactions ranged from anger to pride. The GradPost interviewed a few graduate students to get their reactions to this historic ruling.
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The National Center for Faculty Development & Diversity provides a series of mentoring services, including workshops focused on research and writing strategies, networking opportunities, and other forms of professional support and development.
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Empowerment, discovery, achievement, and humanitarianism were the predominant themes during UC Santa Barbara Graduate Division’s 2015 Commencement celebration.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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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
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Doctoral candidate in microbiology Selvi Ersoy is many things to many people and most of these things are awesome.
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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.
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Find out which of the 10 finalists won the 2015 UCSB Grad Slam!
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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.
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