New program to support and empower social sciences undergraduates
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Charles R. Hale, dean of social sciences, will deliver the campus’s annual Diversity Lecture -
Melvin Oliver, UCSB’s inaugural SAGE Sara Miller McCune Dean of Social Sciences, to become next president of Pitzer College -
Anthropologists study the hormonal basis of affiliation and competition among hunters in the Bolivian Amazon -
Putnam is a renowned leader in the fields of organizational communication, conflict negotiation and bargaining -
Barbara Voorhies has received the American Anthropological Association’s Gender Equity in Anthropology Award -
Infusion of $5 million in gift funds a major boon to Department of Economics -
The new Center for Digital Games Research takes a multidisciplinary approach to the study and design of digital media and games -
When it comes to sharing domestic duties, most young people say they prefer egalitarian relationships -
Ranking represents intellectual diversity of faculty and students and the department’s commitment to scholarship and teaching -
Benjanim Cohen examines the meaning, sources, uses and limits of power in international political economy -
Emotions are complicated and never more so than in the scientific realm where they lack commonly accepted definitions -
UCSB anthropologist studies the culture of cattle ranching in the Brazilian Amazon -
Center incorporates faculty members from departments as varied as electrical engineering and English -
Dana Bardolph’s research shows a great disparity between the number of papers published by male and female authors, respectively -
Conference brings together academic researchers as well as representatives from NGOs, government and industry -
Undergraduate students have a new opportunity to work with faculty members on research and social justice projects -
Health risks are associated with the chronic psychosocial stress of perceived social subordination -
Gerardo Aldana examines the science itself as well as the importance understanding who is invested in the outcomes -
Mainstream political discourse in the U.S. continues to use patterns of representation rooted in the 18th century -
The key to defeating ISIS is the creation of a coalition of partners that includes Muslim countries -
The amount of omega-3 docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) in a mother’s milk is the strongest predictor of test performance -
Each element of the anger face makes the person expressing it appear physically stronger and more formidable -
UCSB Professor Mario Garcia offers 13 testimonios to prove that today's young Latinos can overcome negative stereotypes -
Data shows increased labor market valuation of individuals who possess cognitive ability as well as social skills -
Photo highlights from UCSB-based Surfrider Battalion's June 13, 2014 commissioning ceremony -
In fall 2015, UCSB’s Department of Global Studies will begin offering a Ph.D. in a discipline it is credited with creating. -
Carly Thomsen will receive her doctoral degree at the Graduate Division commencement ceremony on June 15 -
Seven graduating women from UC Santa Barbara will receive cash prizes totaling $45,000 from the defunct Santa Barbara City Club, whose members decades ago created the program out of a desire to reward the campus’s top female grads for their...
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Awards recognize extraordinary scholastic achievement, service to the university and community and personal courage -
The global supply chain brought the marketplace into the 21st century, but conditions in many parts of the world remain unenlightened. -
Scholars examine the origins and effects of Caribbean migration to the United Kingdom -
Through the online education project iCivics, Sandra Day O'Connor has made civics education her top priority -
Leadership training is at the heart of UCSB's Army ROTC program, which boasts a host of notable alumni. -
Alvin Roth, recipient of the 2012 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics, will give the 56th Annual Carl Snyder Memorial Lecture at UC Santa Barbara on Thursday, April 10. He will speak on “The Economist as Engineer.”
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Aída Hurtado, a professor and Luis Leal Endowed Chair in UC Santa Barbara’s Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies, was selected to receive the Outstanding Latino/a Faculty in Higher Education (Research Institutions) Award from the American...
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María Herrera-Sobek, professor of Chicano and Chicana Studies at UC Santa Barbara, has been named to receive the II Galardón Don Luis Leal award from Asociación HispaUSA, a non-profit organization that promotes the study and research of the...
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Prominent critics who object to executive actions taken by President Obama have characterized them as unlawful and unconstitutional.
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Shame, according to Professor Thomas Scheff, is the most hidden and obstructed emotion, and therefore the most destructive -
The world watches as Russian President Vladimir Putin plans his next move and the U.S. and Western Europe organize their response. -
Sixty-two years ago today, a group of students from the University of Dhaka in Bangladesh (then known as East Pakistan) were killed as they participated in the Bengali Language Movement protests.
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In March 1968, thousands of Chicano students walked out of their East Los Angeles high schools to protest decades of inferior or discriminatory education in their so-called “Mexican Schools.” During these historic walkouts –– or “blowouts,” as...
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The Tsimane Flood Relief Fund will provide emergency assistance to displaced families and communities -
Peaceful cooperation can reduce or eliminate the nonconscious tendency to categorize people by race, say UCSB social scientists -
Novelist John Rechy will receive this year's Luis Leal Award for Distinction in Chicano/Latino Literature -
Fifty years ago Lyndon B. Johnson gave his historic State of the Union address declaring an “unconditional war on poverty.” -
UCSB scholars examine Martin Luther King Jr., and his fight for racial equality and social and economic justice -
When it comes to hunting, anthropologists and evolutionary scientists have long wondered — and debated — what, exactly, is the motivating factor behind hunting. Do men take down game for the purpose of feeding their families, or is there an element... -
In her new book, “Geographies of Privilege,” sociology professor France Winddance Twine argues that physical space, geography, and locality are key to understanding how power and privilege operate in diverse national contexts. Geography and... -
If you knew that your neighbor — or your neighbor’s gardener or nanny — was an “illegal alien,” would you tell? Should you tell? The dilemma in contemporary America is similar to the one Huckleberry Finn encountered when he discovered a runaway... -
In her new book, “The Marrying Kind? Debating Same-Sex Marriage within the Lesbian and Gay Movement,” sociology professor Verta Taylor examines arguments within the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) movement in support of — and in... -
Bold and outgoing or shy and retiring — while many people can shift from one to the other as circumstances warrant, in general they lean toward one disposition or the other. And that inclination changes little over the course of their lives.
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If the idea of hookworms makes you shudder, consider this: Those pesky intestinal parasites may actually help your body ward off other infections, and perhaps even prevent autoimmune and other diseases.
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The everyday physical activities of an isolated group of forager-farmers in central Bolivia are providing valuable information about how industrialization and its associated modern amenities may impact health and wellness.
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Few issues in American society have provoked such polarized –– and heated –– responses as same-sex marriage. What may come as a surprise, however, is how polarizing the right to marry has been within the gay and lesbian community.
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With this morning's landmark Supreme Court rulings –– and Gov. Jerry Brown's announcement that county clerks will soon begin issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples –– California becomes the 13th state to legalize same-sex marriage.
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Michael Dzwoniarek knows the exact moment he made up his mind. It was a magazine cover that did it.
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Three remarkable graduating seniors at UC Santa Barbara have been named winners of the university's top awards for their scholastic achievement, their extraordinary service to the university and the community, and their personal courage and...
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George Borjas will give the 55th Annual Carl Snyder Memorial Lecture at UC Santa Barbara on Thursday, February 21. -
Legendary Grammy Award-winning vocalist Dee Dee Bridgewater will visit UC Santa Barbara on Tuesday, January 15, where she will discuss her career as a jazz singer and the struggles and rewards of crafting an individual voice as an artist.
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For decades, consensus among psychologists has held that a group of five personality traits –– or slight variations of these five –– are a universal feature of human psychology.
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Leda Cosmides and John Tooby, UC Santa Barbara professors of psychology and anthropology, respectively, and co-directors of the campus's Center for Evolutionary Psychology, will give the 2012 Faculty Research Lecture on Wednesday, November 28,...
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A panel of faculty members from UC Santa Barbara will discuss and analyze key issues of the 2012 presidential and congressional elections on Thursday, October 24, in a forum presented by UCSB's Center for Information Technology and Society (CITS...
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As an undergraduate at Princeton University, Stephanie Batiste saw a photograph of seven African American performers dressed in leaf costumes for a 1930's production of "Macbeth." She wondered how it could be that "these black men were dressed...
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Hal R. Varian, the chief economist at Google, will give the 54th Annual Carl Snyder Memorial Lecture at UC Santa Barbara on Tuesday, April 3. He will speak on "Predicting the Present With Google Trends."
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The life and work of the prolific and socially conscious Chicano artist Leo Limón is the focus of a book recently published by UC Santa Barbara's Chicano Studies Institute and the California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives (CEMA), a division...
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The Chicano movement of the 1960's and 70's represents the most significant civil rights and empowerment movement by Mexican Americans in the United States.
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Laura Romo, associate professor of education at UC Santa Barbara, is the new director of the campus's Chicano Studies Institute. She replaces Carl Gutiérrez-Jones, professor of English at UCSB, who held the position for the past six years.
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While the Cold War has most commonly been associated with Europe –– think the former Soviet Union –– and the United States, East Asia has served as what scholars refer to as a critical second front.
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White and non-white identities are place-bound, asserts George Lipsitz, professor of Black Studies at UC Santa Barbara.
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Love songs –– the pouring out of one's heart in words and melody –– are as ubiquitous and timeless as the emotion itself.
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In March 1968, thousands of Chicano students walked out of their East Los Angeles high schools to protest decades of inferior or discriminatory education in their so-called "Mexican Schools." During these historic walkouts –– or "blowouts," as...
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Thanks to a $100,000 grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), UC Santa Barbara graduate student Amy Gusick is searching underwater landscapes in Mexico this week, hoping to find evidence of ancient habitations.
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Aida Hurtado has joined the faculty at UC Santa Barbara as the new chair of the Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies.
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From the time of the very earliest societies, the possibility of love between women has been known, even when it was feared or ignored -
Denise 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).
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The University of California has approved a proposal by UC Santa Barbara to establish the nation's first doctoral program in Chicano studies.
