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A group of undergraduate volunteers pose in front of the chemistry building at UC Santa Barbara.
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SciTrek founder Norbert Reich (center back) poses with some of the over 280 undergraduate volunteers who make the program possible.

SciTrek, UCSB’s largest education outreach program, garners new funding to expand

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Opening up office hours
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Matt Perko

On the origin of academic traditions — and some alternatives for debate
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Leveraging social psychology to overcome barriers to climate action
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Michelle Ramos Ramirez ’24

UCSB’s ÉXITO Program graduates third cohort of future ethnic studies teachers amidst rising attacks on ethnic studies
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Mayra Puente receives AERA award for 'Platicando y Mapeando' educational research methodology
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UCSB partners with local schools to support students facing trauma
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A U.S. Department of Education grant will fund mental health services for K–12 schools nationwide

Expanding mental health treatment for schoolchildren focus of national grant award to Gevirtz School and partner universities
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Inez Beverly Prosser is known as the first Black woman psychologist in the United States.

Groundbreaking work of four prominent Black psychologists featured for the first time in American Psychologist
Juneteenth mural
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Juneteenth Legacy Project
"Absolute Equality" mural in Galveston, Texas, commemorating Juneteenth

Teaching Juneteenth: a history lesson in slavery and freedom
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New grant funds are helping the Gevirtz School prepare teachers California sorely needs
An envelope addressed to UCSB's Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, from Corcoran State Prison
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With a California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Grant, Foundations in the Humanities is funded to run at Corcoran for three years.

Humanities program brings courses in literary studies to individuals in the California state prison system
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Asian American studies launches interdisciplinary Ph.D. emphasis
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