Melvin Oliver, the SAGE Sara Miller McCune Dean of Social Sciences and a professor of sociology at UC Santa Barbara, is one of four new members appointed to the Board of Trustees of the William T. Grant Foundation.
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Letters and Science, Sociology
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Letters and Science, HistoryA retail giant that began as a corner store in a small Arkansas town, Wal-Mart has become the largest private employer in the world. It is a typical American business success story –– or is it?
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Letters and Science, Religious StudiesExpanding its already extensive course offerings in Middle Eastern and South Asian languages, the UCSB Department of Religious Studies will add classes this fall in Pashto, Persian, and Turkish.
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Letters and Science, Molecular Cellular and Developmental Biology(La Jolla and Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– The Burnham Institute for Medical Research and the University of California, Santa Barbara have named leading biomedical researcher Jamey D.
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Letters and Science, Environmental Studies, Film and Media Studies
A series of short films produced by students in Blue Horizons, UC Santa Barbara's summer program for environmental media, will screen on Friday, August 21, in the campus's MultiCultural Center Theater. The event is free and open to the public....
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In the quest for quantum information processing, diamonds may be a physicist's best friend.
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Letters and Science
Environmental researchers at UC Santa Barbara have issued a rallying cry to protect Arctic resources, in an article published in the April 17 issue of the journal Science.
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Letters and Science, Feminist Studies, History
The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation has awarded Leandra Zarnow, a doctoral candidate in history and feminist studies at UC Santa Barbara, a 2009 Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellowship in Women's Studies and a Charlotte W.
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Engineering, MaterialsJuliana Bernal Ostos, a second-year Ph.D. student in UC Santa Barbara's Materials Department, has been named winner of the 2009 WiSE Diversity Award.
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Letters and Science, Chicano Studies, Feminist Studies, Latin American and Iberian Studies, SociologyDenise Segura, a professor of sociology at UC Santa Barbara, has received the Outstanding Latina Faculty in Higher Education award from the American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education (AAHHE).
