Tanya Atwater, a professor of geological sciences at the University of California, Santa Barbara, is one of six faculty members nationwide to receive one of this year's National Science Foundation (NSF) Director's Awards for Distinguished...
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Letters and Science, Earth Science
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Gevirtz Graduate School of Education
The Gevirtz Research Center at the University of California, Santa Barbara has been awarded a $600,000 grant from the Whittier Family Foundations to design, implement, and research two innovative informal education programs that focus on youth...
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Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, Letters and Science, Earth Science, East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies
UC Santa Barbara professors John Nathan and David W. Lea have been named recipients of prestigious Guggenheim Fellowships, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation announced Monday.
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Letters and Science, Religious Studies
Jose Cabezon will give his inaugural lecture as UC Santa Barbara's Dalai Lama Professor of Tibetan Buddhism and Cultural Studies Thursday, Nov. 8 at 5 p.m. in the campus Multicultural Center.
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Letters and Science, Religious Studies
Former Nebraska Senator Bob Kerrey to give keynote speech During a 33-year career at UC Santa Barbara as a beloved professor of religious studies, the late Walter Capps advocated ardent but polite discourse as the proper road to problem-solving...
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Letters and Science, French and Italian
University of Pittsburgh assistant professor Philip Watts has become the fourth author with UCSB ties in the past eight years to have been honored with the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for best book in French and Francophone Literary Studies...
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Letters and Science, Earth Science
An article in Nature Magazine this week reports new information about the movement of the upper mantle immediately underneath the Earth's crust.
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Gevirtz Graduate School of Education
Five thousand students in the Oxnard Elementary School District will receive academic support and assistance through Kinko's Effective Schools Initiative, an educational reform program being implemented by the California Center for Effective...
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Letters and Science, Anthropology
Students call her enthusiastic and empowering. Her colleagues call a her a dedicated researcher.
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Letters and Science, Psychological and Brain Sciences
Brenda Major, professor of psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, has won three highly prestigious and competitive grants that will go toward her research and a sabbatical book project on abortion.
