As the number of international students at UCSB have doubled over the past 5 years, Kristen Dunkinson works specifically with international students at Campus Learning Assistance Services (CLAS) in order to help them with their writing.
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UC Santa Barbara film students Cameron Leingang and Lexi Lunchick are producing a documentary about the 2014 Isla Vista shooting called “Not One More,” to premiere next March, at the Pollock Theater on UCSB’s campus. The film is being made as a part of a Film and Media Studies course called Crew Production.
In an interview, fourth-year English major and Education minor Cynthia Montes discusses her pursuit of a career teaching high school English. As president of the UCSB Literature Club, she is already showing leadership in her chosen field.
New UCSB professor Wendy Eley Jackson is the instructor for Basic Screenwriting and Crew Production. She sat down for an interview to discuss her passion for writing and film, her journey through Hollywood, and what knowledge she hopes to impart to her students.
In an interview, UC Santa Barbara alumnus Jason Prystowsky discusses the new Medical Humanities Certificate program and why the future of medicine would benefit from interdisciplinary education.
Lawyer and activist Ady Barkan brought wisdom from a lifetime of political advocacy to UC Santa Barbara last week, inspiring a packed room of students, professors, and faculty to reject complacency in the face of adversity.
Writng student Beth Guluk Isensee offers a behind-the-scenes look at the Philosophy Department’s Ethics Bowl team, in which her roommate Natalie McCosker personifies the team’s motivation and dedication and they train for regional and national competitions.
Theater major Anabel Costa describes how after a lifetime of dance she lost her passion and then found it again after taking a break. Costa is enrolled once again in dance courses at UC Santa Barbara and shares here experience with other creatives in this personal essay.
On Sunday, carillonist and Music Department Lecturer Wesley Arai performed a carillon recital to celebrate Storke Tower’s 50th anniversary. In an interview, Arai discussed the his experience as a carillon master. Dean John Majewski opened the event with remarks about the significance of Storke Tower and its carilion in campus history and culture.
Fourth-year Communication student Madison Terry discusses how a Magazine Writing course in UC Santa Barbara’s Writing Program shifted her outlook on the written word and inspired her interest in pursuing professional writing.
In his presentation last week entitled Being African, Being Contemporary, UC Santa Barbara History of Art and Architecture professor Sylvester Okwunodu Ogbechie used both historic and contemporary images to map the journey of African art and its representations, showing its influence on the art of our world today.
Kate McDonald, A UC Santa Barbara Modern East Asian History professor, has received a $100,000 federal grant to improve and expand her new website “Bodies and Structures: Deep-Mapping Modern East Asian History.” McDonald discussed in an interview this new digital platform for researching and teaching histories of Japan and other cultures in the region.
The Carsey-Wolf Center opened its new “Special Effects” series this week with a screening of the 2015 post-apocalyptic action film Mad Max: Fury Road, followed by discussion that covered everything from stunts, to camera technologies, to gender politics. Wizard of Oz screens Saturday, October 5.
Twelve UCSB student journalists have just returned from a two-week reporting trip to Berlin, as part of an International Reporting course that coincided with the 30th anniversary year of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Students are producing a variety of feature stories - from German identity, to the migrant crisis, to architecture and gentrification - which will appear later this month in a project-based online publication called Berlin Beyond Borders. The UCSB student reporting has already been appearing on social media.
Ranj Atur, is currently a PhD candidate at UC Santa Barbara, focusing on Greek religion and Greek polytheism. She is also working closely with Professor Christine Thomas, an archeologist from Harvard who teaches religious studies courses at UCSB. Atur, looks at language in ancient religions by way of archeological artifacts: statues, clay tablets, pottery, and paintings from between the first century BCE and first century CE.
In a recent interview, Atur discussed how ancient religions have influenced the development of language and religion over the centuries.
21-year-old Kyrié Howard, a film and media studies major at UC Santa Barbara, recently sat down for an interview to discuss her experience in the program, how she found her calling, how she continues to hone her craft, and her plans for the future. Prior attending UCSB, Kyrié interned at Bad Robot Productions, a company led by the acclaimed film producer J.J. Abrams.
UCSB student Mikayla Knight is the current president of Shrunken Heads, an entirely student run musical theater society, that seeks to utilize theater and art not only as a mode of expression, but also as a platform for human rights activism. Knight has also performed a piece on sexual assault during the annual production of The Vagina Monologues and Herstories, a performance that deals with various aspects of the feminine experience. She recently spoke about her work in this interview.
Second-year UC Santa Barbara student Frances Woo recently launched Um… Magazine, an online and print arts publication that aims to give marginalized communities a platform to showcase their art, writing, photography, and music.
In a recent interview, Woo discussed the creation of the magazine and her plans for its future.
In her years researching the social origins of the minimum wage in the Western world, historian, author, and professor at SUNY at Binghamton Kathryn Kish Sklar discovered that American labor pioneer Florence Kelley’s efforts in the late 19th century to protect women and children in factories led to the minimum wage in America. Sklar shared these findings in a recent UC Santa Barbara lecture hosted by the Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy and the History Department.
Dartmouth anthropologist Sienna Craig discusses how a newer group of immigrants in New York, the Nepalis, are adjusting to a new way of life through khora, a pilgrimage and type of meditative practice.