Gevirtz School News
January 25, 2021
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Meghan Evans is a doctoral student in the Department of Counseling, Clinical, and School Psychology studying Clinical Psychology working with Dr. Maryam Kia-Keating as her advisor. She has worked as a senior lab manager and post-...
January 22, 2021
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A 2017 meeting of the Community Engagement Team (previously named Service Provider Network); Jill Sharkey is third from left in top row
In a recent statement the members of the South Coast Youth Safety Partnership (SCYSP) wrote, “We are devastated by the recent tragic loss of youth in our community from violence. We represent an ongoing collaborative effort across youth-...
January 21, 2021
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Three UC Santa Barbara Gevirtz School alumni--Stephanie Couch, Audra Skukauskaite, and Rick Bacon--are contributing chapters to Becoming an Educational Ethnographer: The Challenges and Opportunities of Undertaking Research, a new...
January 19, 2021
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Tania Israel from UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School was the guest on the most popular episode of the American Psychological Association’s (APA) “Speaking of Psychology” podcast in 2020. Israel’s episode, “How to have meaningful dialogues... -
Maria Espitia is a first-generation Mexican American graduate student pursuing her Master of Education, as well as education specialist credential in moderate to severe disabilities in the Teacher Education Program. She has worked in a...
January 12, 2021
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UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School announces the formal, virtual opening of the Mind and Behavior Assessment Clinic (MBAC). The MBAC primarily exists to provide members of Santa Barbara county and surrounding areas a low-cost option to... -
TASH, an international leader in disability advocacy founded in 1975, welcomes Natalie Holdren from UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School as a new board member. Holdren is a former TASH board member and past co-president. Dr. Natalie Holdren... -
Valerie Valdez is a doctoral student in the Department of Education, with an emphasis in Teacher Education and Professional Development. Her research interests include teacher educator pedagogy and teacher candidate development, with...
January 11, 2021
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Three Department of Counseling, Clinical, and School Psychology (CCSP) alumni are serving on the Santa Barbara County Psychological Association (SBCPA) Board of Directors. Anna Krasno, Megan Donahue, and Avery Voos were all elected as 2021...
January 4, 2021
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David Rivera at his graduation from San Diego State University
David Rivera (pronouns: he/him/his) is a doctoral student in the counseling psychology emphasis of the Department of Counseling, Clinical and School Psychology working under Dr. Alison Cerezo. Rivera was a selected scholar of the... -
Tania Israel of The Department of Counseling, Clinical, and School Psychology (CCSP) at UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School will give the talk “Social Justice and the Culture of Outrage” on Tuesday, January 13 at 4 pm. In this presentation,...
December 22, 2020
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The Department of Counseling, Clinical, and School Psychology (CCSP) at UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School has developed a playlist of videos about the Department and School to aid and inform prospective students during a time of travel... -
Bradford Fried is a doctoral student in the Department of Education working with Dr. Dorothy Chun and Dr. Jin Sook Lee. His emphases are in applied linguistics and cognitive science where he is researching the relationship between language...
December 17, 2020
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Jason Fly, one of the doctoral student therapists
The Hosford Counseling & Psychological Services Clinic, based at UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School, has launched a new service, The Healing Center. The Healing Center is a specialty clinic that provides psychological services to Black-...
December 16, 2020
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Alice Mullin is a doctoral student in the School Psychology emphasis in CCSP under Dr. Jill Sharkey. She graduated from Scripps College in 2017 with a B.A. in psychology. Following graduation, she began working as a project coordinator in...
December 11, 2020
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Emeriti deans Norman Boyan (l) and Jules Zimmer (m) with current dean Jeffrey Milem (r) at an emeriti luncheon in March 2018
UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School laments the passing of Norman Boyan, Dean of the School from 1969-1980. Dr. Boyan passed on December 2, 2020 at the age of 98, only 12 days after his wife of 77 years Priscilla passed. Boyan was a...
December 10, 2020
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Professor Shane Jimerson of UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School will be a featured presenter at a Stanford University hosted “Summit on Adolescent Sleep and School Start Times” on January 22-23, 2021. This online event will encourage cross-...
December 8, 2020
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Sunghee Choi is a doctoral student in the Department of Education working with Dr. Diana Arya and Dr. Andrew Maul. After being away from school for a long time, she received her M.A in education from UCSB. As a mother of a 12-year-old... -
Dr. Cortney Beasley, a clinical psychologist and founder of Put In Black, a platform dedicated to helping improve Black communities’ access to health information, will give the free public presentation, “Creating a Holistic Career as a...
December 2, 2020
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Torrey Trust at commencement in 2014
The Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) chose UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School alumna Torrey Trust (Education, Ph.D., ’14) and her co-authors for its 2020 Annual Achievement Award. AECT honored the article “...
November 30, 2020
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Alison Cerezo from UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School is moderating the forum “Coming Together Around the Emotional Wellbeing of Lesbian, Bisexual, and Queer Women of Color” sponsored by The Los Angeles County Lesbian, Bisexual, and Queer...
November 17, 2020
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The Teacher Education Program (TEP) at UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School has appointed Victoria “Tory” Harvey as its Associate Director. The Associate Director is responsible for administering ongoing activity associated within the Teacher... -
Professor Melissa Morgan of the Gevirtz School has been appointed Vice Chair of UC Santa Barbara’s Academic Senate, with a special portfolio for advancing diversity and equity. Professor Morgan also chairs the Senate’s Committee on...
November 9, 2020
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A research team from UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School gave the presentation “Resilience in the Latinx Community: Working Collaboratively for Social Justice and Equity” as part of the 2020 National Latinx Psychology Association (NLPA)...
November 5, 2020
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The Department of Counseling, Clinical, and School Psychology (CCSP) at the UC Santa Barbara Gevirtz School will be holding a Research Festival on Thursday, November 12 from 8:25 am to 12:20 pm via Zoom. The festival is free and open to...