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February 5, 2013
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Merith Cosden of UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School received a Legacy Award from the Santa Barbara County Psychological Association (SBCPA) on January 25. The Legacy Awards were awards were created to mark special recognition for a wide...
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UC Santa Barbara’s CalTeach Physical Sciences and Engineering presents Dr. Carl Wieman, Physics Nobel Laureate, giving the free public lecture “Taking a Scientific Approach to Engineering and Science Education.” This talk will be held in...
January 29, 2013
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UC Santa Barbara presents Dr. Sean Carroll, prominent development biologist, giving the free public lecture “Storytelling and Science Education: A Yarn for Darwin’s Birthday.” This talk, the Second Annual SciTrek Lecture on Science... -
Drs. Robert and Lynn Koegel of UC Santa Barbara Gevirtz School will introduce a special 25th Anniversary screening of the Academy Award-winning Rain Man on Wednesday, January 30 at 7 pm in UCSB Pollock Theater. Part of the...
January 22, 2013
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UC Santa Barbara's Gevirtz School has hired its winter quarter Academic Technology Specialists (ATS) who will aid the school's faculty and students with instructional technology. The four ATS, who are also graduate students in the Gevirtz... -
Governor Jerry Brown has chosen UC Santa Barbara Gevirtz School alumna Dr. Nicolasa Sandoval to serve on the State Board of Education. Sandoval, who received her Ph.D. from the Department of Education in 2007, currently works as Education...
January 15, 2013
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UC Santa Barbara Gevirtz School alumnus Dr. Chris Cate, currently Research Director for Student Veterans of America (SVA), has led a movement to forge a formal agreement among the SVA, the U. S. Department of Veterans Affairs, and the...
December 20, 2012
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Former Graduate Division Dean Gale Morrison has been named acting dean of UC Santa Barbara's Gevirtz School. Morrison will serve as dean for the period when Dean Jane Close Conoley serves as acting chancellor of UC Riverside while that...
December 19, 2012
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Nine school violence prevention researchers and practitioners nationwide have developed a position statement on the Dec. 14, 2012 Connecticut school shootings that is being disseminated across the U.S. today. It is in response to the...
December 11, 2012
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Professor Judith Green, Associate Researcher Beth Yeager, and alumni Laura Hill-Bonnet and Jacqueline Reid of UC Santa Barbara's Gevirtz School recently published the chapter "Exploring Dialogic Opportunities for Learning and (Re)...
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The World Education Research Association (WERA) has officially accepted the proposal "Teacher Education for the 21st Century: Developing Teachers Who are Thoughtful, Reflective, and Inquiring" as a WRA International Research Network (IRN...
December 4, 2012
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Donor Charlie Alva has provided a gift to UC Santa Barbara’s Koegel Autism Center that will help families and children in need have access to assessment services and follow-up intervention workshops. This gift will help more people take...
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For their Spencer Foundation study, Co-PIs Morva McDonald and Charles Peck of the University of Washington are examining and documenting how outcome data are used in teacher education programs. As they explain, "The purpose of the research...
November 28, 2012
November 27, 2012
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Danielle Harlow of UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School has been awarded 2012 Hellman Family Faculty Fellowship. Harlow’s research project is entitled “Children’s Engineering Design Thinking.” Established in 1995 by Warren and Patrician...
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Pedro Paz – who received his master’s and Ph.D. from UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School – won election to the Santa Barbara Unified School District Board of Education earlier this November. Paz’s 2008 dissertation, written with Professor...
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November 20, 2012
November 13, 2012
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Dean Jane Close Conoley of UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School will lead three free evening workshops for parents in the Hope School District beginning with the event “Mindful Children” on Wednesday, November 14 from 7 – 8:30 pm at Hope...
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Faculty and students from UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School will present at the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) national conference and its pre-conference held November 14-17 in The Cosmopolitan, Las Vegas, Nevada. The...
November 6, 2012
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UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School will host EdCamp UCSB – a day of shared professional development for all educators – on Saturday, January 26, 2013, from 8 am – 3:30 pm at the Education Building. Labeled an “unconference,” an EdCamp is...