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January 25, 2022
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Margarita Rodriguez is a first-year Ph.D. student in the Dept of Education studying with Dr. Amy Kyratzis. Rodriguez completed both her undergraduate and MA degrees at UC Irvine, where she discovered her passion for language acquisition...
January 24, 2022
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Gevirtz School alumnus John Cano has been named University-Community Links (UC Links) Associate Director. UC Links is a collaborative network of university and community partners, working closely together to sustain after-school programs...
January 11, 2022
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Daniela Sarmiento Hernandez is a doctoral student in Clinical Psychology working under Dr. Kia-Keating. She received her B.S. in Psychobiology from UCLA in 2020, where she conducted research on the interaction between sociocultural...
January 10, 2022
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Gevirtz School alumna Judith Freeman Garey has published Theater, Drama, and Reading: Transforming the Rehearsal Process into a Reading Process (NCTE 2021). In the same way that theater artists engage in a rehearsal process to...
January 4, 2022
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Gevirtz School alumnus Levi C. Maaia has been appointed by the Santa Barbara City Council to serve on the Santa Barbara Airport Commission through 2025. Maaia expects that this will be a busy time for the Commission, with the upcoming... -
Isaiah Jones is a first-generation "Blackxican" (Black and Mexican) student pursuing his doctoral degree in the Department of Counseling, Clinical, and School Psychology under Dr. Alison Cerezo. As an undergraduate, Jones participated in a...
January 3, 2022
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Tina McEnroe and Chancellor Henry Yang in the McEnroe Reading and Language Arts Clinic at a Maker Faire in 2016
For over 15 years the Gevirtz School has been chronicling the ever-growing accomplishments of Tina McEnroe, M.A., L.H.D. (h.c.). She was our featured alumna (she earned that M.A. from the GGSE Department of Education) in our very first...
December 14, 2021
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Alumnus Dr. Paul M. Rogers has recently been hired as an Associate Professor in the UC Santa Barbara Writing Program. Rogers (Education, Ph.D., ’08) is a co-founder and the immediate past chair of the International Society for the...
December 13, 2021
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Alumnus Jay Plasman, Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Studies at The Ohio State University, has won the 2021 Association for Career and Technical Research (ACTER) Outstanding Beginning Scholar Award. This award...
December 8, 2021
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Note New Date (changed because of Omicron) Don Lubach, Associate Ombuds at UC Santa Barbara, will give the presentation “Communicating with kindness with faculty, peers, students, and with yourself: An Ombud’s guide for the GGSE graduate...
December 7, 2021
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Amanda Andersen in a doctoral student in the Department of Education. She has a Master's in Political Science from Institut d'Etudes politiques de Paris, an interdisciplinary master's in audiovisual arts from LUCA School of Arts (KU Leuven...
December 3, 2021
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Natalie Holdren, Education Specialist Credential Coordinator (Extensive Support Needs) in UCSB’s Teacher Education Program, will give the Zoom lecture “Neurodiversity on Campus: Student-Centered Services and Faculty Support” on Tuesday,...
December 1, 2021
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Sarely Licona is a doctoral student in Clinical Psychology. After earning a B.S. in Brain and Cognitive Sciences from the University of Rochester in 2019, Licona worked as a research assistant at the Autism Assessment, Research, Treatment...
November 21, 2021
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Arun Rasiah, Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies, Director of Liberal Studies, CSU East Bay, will give the free public lecture “Racial Justice, Social Movements and Policy Change: Integrating Ethnic Studies and Education in California”...
November 18, 2021
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The Koegel Autism Center on the UC Santa Barbara campus will present “ARTism: A Voyage into Divergence” on Thursday, December 2 from 6-9 pm. This art show will be the first on the UCSB campus to feature neurodivergent art from over 20...
November 17, 2021
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Kelsey O'Brien is a first-year doctoral student in the Department of Education working with advisor Dr. Rebeca Mireles-Rios. GGSE: You have an MS in Sustainability, Culture, and Development Anthropology from Durham...
November 16, 2021
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Tania Israel from UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz Graduate School of Education delivered one of the keynote addresses at the 2021 Annual Convention of the Texas Psychological Association on November 11. Israel gave the talk “If You’re Not... -
Advisor Dr. Julie Bianchini ceremonial hoods new Ph.D. Alexis Spina in June 2021
Twenty-seven doctoral candidates from UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz Graduate School of Education took part in graduation ceremonies in the academic year 2020-21. Listed below are the new CCSP and ED Ph.D.s and their dissertation titles.... -
Lakhvir Kaur is a doctoral student in the school psychology emphasis of the Department of Counseling, Clinical, and School Psychology working under Dr. Shane Jimerson. Prior to her studies here, Kaur attended community college and went on...
November 10, 2021
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Jeffrey Milem, Jules Zimmer Dean of UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School, was a guest lecturer in Harvard University’s Bravely Confronting Racism in Higher Education online course on November 8. (Milem was an invited speaker in the... -
Veronica Fematt (l.) with her dissertation committee: Dr. Karen Nylund-Gibson, Dr. Betsy Brenner, Dr. Mike Gerber, and (via Skype) Dr. Daniel Solorzano from UCLA.
Alumna Veronica Fematt (Ph.D., Education, ’17) was recently hired as the assistant director of UCSB’s McNair Scholars Program, a welcome return to campus. The goals of McNair are to increase the number of first- generation, low-income and/...
November 9, 2021
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Richard Durán, professor at UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School, will give the presentation “Ubiquitous Computing Design as Meaning Making” on Monday, November 15 at 1 pm PST. The talk is presented by UCSB’s Media Arts & Technology... -
Melissa Morgan of UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School has been named an American Psychological Association (APA) Society for the Psychological Study of Culture, Ethnicity, and Race, Division 45 Fellow. This is a highly meritorious... -
Judith Green, distinguished professor emeritus of UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School, will give the presentation “Interactional ethnography and multimodality: Issues of epistemology, logic of enquiry and analysis” on Friday, November 12 at...
November 8, 2021
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Efrain Alvarez is a first-generation Mexican-American graduate student pursuing his Masters of Education, as well as an educational specialist credential in moderate to severe disabilities in UCSB’s Teacher Education Program. He completed...