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April 20, 2018
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At the Faculty Legislature meeting announcing Academic Senate awards: (from l-r) Lilly Lew (Dept of Education grad student), Diana Chagolla (Dept of Education grad student), Bertin Solis (Dept of Education grad student), Jeremy Edwards (Outstanding TA awardee, Dept of Education grad student), Gevirtz School Dean Jeff Milem, Outstanding Graduate Mentor Award winner Richard Duran (Dept of Education professor), Zoe Welch (Outstanding TA awardee, Department of Ecology Evolution and Marine Biology, shea student in Duran's ED 210A Advances in the Learning Sciences and Education in fall 2016).
Jeremy Edwards, a doctoral student in the Department of Education at UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School, has received a 2017-18 Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award. Teaching assistants play a vital role in enhancing the teaching mission of...
April 17, 2018
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Harding students, along with the GGSE DEan Jeff Milem and their prinicipal Veronica Binkley, at the touch tanks at the REEF during the 2017 visit
The Harding University Partnership School, which since January 2010 has been partnered with UC Santa Barbara and in particular UCSB’s Gevirtz School, will bring the school’s fourth, fifth, and sixth grade students and teachers – and many... -
Richard Durán surprised an a Department of Education meeting with the news he was named an Outstanding Graduate Mentor
Richard Durán, Professor in the Department of Education at UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School, has received a 2017-18 Outstanding Graduate Mentor Award. Mentoring graduate students is a vital component of UCSB’s mission as a research...
April 16, 2018
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Dean Jeffrey Milem of UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School will be the invited speaker at the next Chancellor’s Breakfast, to be held Thursday, April 19 from 7:30 am – 9 am at El Paseo Restaurant, 813 Anacapa St., Santa Barbara. Milem will... -
Jacob Kirksey and Jasmine McBeath, doctoral students in the Department of Education at the Gevirtz School will compete in the semi-final round of the 2018 UC Santa Barbara’s Graduate Student Showcase Grad Slam. Kirksey will compete on...
April 12, 2018
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UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School alumnus Martin Connell has been named rector at the Jesuit School of Theology (JST) of Santa Clara University. Fr. Connell will begin his new role this summer. Fr. Connell expressed his excitement about...
April 11, 2018
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GGSE students have launched a new blog called Grad Tavern as a way for graduate students to showcase their important work to a broader audience. Graduate students perform research that has powerful policy and practice implications. However...
April 10, 2018
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The Pushouts (directed by Katie Galloway) interrogates crucial questions of race, class and power in the education system. This documentary focuses on the work UC Santa Barbara sociologist Victor Rios conducted with a group of...
April 9, 2018
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David Liu & Bryant Hopkins
To help increase the exposure of the UC Santa Barbara student body to the latest research in a variety of disciplines that concern educational issues, the Gevirtz School, with support from UCSB Associated Students, has begun the new...
April 4, 2018
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The second edition of The Dean’s Lecture Series on Education, Diversity and Democracy, presented by UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School, will feature a lecture by Dr. Daniel G. Solorzano—“ Using the Critical Race Tool of Racial...
April 3, 2018
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All UC Santa Barbara alumni or those who are a Gaucho in spirit get to celebrate their pride, share their story, and support the university at giveday.ucsb.edu on Thursday, April 12. And among the many ways one can write UCSB’s next...
April 2, 2018
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The next event in the monthly Autism Seminar & Discussion (ASD) series—sponsored by UC Santa Barbara’s Koegel Autism Center and the Santa Barbara Public Library—is “Improving the IEP Experience.” The event, which is free and open to... -
Faculty and presenters at the 2017 Gevirtz School Grad Slam event
Eight Gevirtz School graduate students will take part in the School’s internal Grad Slam on April 3 and six students will participate in the 2018 UC Santa Barbara’s Graduate Student Showcase Grad Slam that runs from April 9-20. For both...
March 29, 2018
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Counted separately for each of their appearances, 111 faculty members and graduate students from UC Santa Barbara, the overwhelming majority from or affiliated with the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education, will take part in 57 events,... -
American Educational Research Association 2018 Annual Meeting April 13 – April 17, 2018, New York, NY Participants from The Gevirtz School and UC Santa Barbara Friday, April 13 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm Mandy McLean Jasmine McBeath Tyler...
March 28, 2018
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Jeffrey Milem, dean and professor at UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School, is the featured speaker for the Dean’s Diversity Lecture Series at Vanderbilt’s Peabody College of education and human development. Milem’s lecture, “Education,...
March 19, 2018
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Jin Sook Lee, a professor in the Department of Education at UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School, along with Mary Bucholtz, a UCSB Professor in Linguistics and Gevirtz School affiliated faculty member, have edited the just released ...
March 14, 2018
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To help increase the exposure of the UC Santa Barbara student body to the latest research in a variety of disciplines that concern educational issues, the Gevirtz School, with support from UCSB Associated Students, will begin the new...
March 13, 2018
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Heather Macias is a doctoral student in the Department of Education with research interests in multilingual literacy, literacy education, and sociocultural learning theory under Dr. Richard Duran. Prior to starting her Ph.D., Heather...
March 8, 2018
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Danielle Harlow of UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School will be part of a team led by computer scientists at the University of Chicago that will enable practical-scale quantum computing. This project, called EPiQC, is a multi-disciplinary...
March 6, 2018
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Michael Gottfried of UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School has been chosen an Outstanding Reviewer for 2017 by the American Educational Research Association (AERA) and Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis (EEPA). The...
February 27, 2018
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Jacob Kirksey from UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School has recently been awarded a grant from the NSF’s Graduate Research Opportunities Worldwide (GROW) program. This grant was only open to active awardees of the Graduate Research Fellowship...
February 21, 2018
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Dr. Jean Schultz, the French language program director at UC Santa Barbara, will give the talk “Implementing an Ecological Interdisciplinary Approach to Language Teaching: Biological Topics in French” on Tuesday, February 27 at 4 pm in ED...
February 20, 2018
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As a doctoral candidate in the Department of Education, Tiange Wang aims to support students’ bilingual and bi-literacy development through her research at a Chinese-English Dual Language Immersion (DLI) program. Although she is currently...
February 16, 2018
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Alan Vu during his first trip to Spain [photo courtesy UCSB Department of History]
UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School laments the passing of Alan Vu, who was to enter the Department of Education as a master’s student this fall. Vu grew up in San Jose, CA where he attended St. Francis High School. He graduated from UC...