UC Santa Barbara welcomes a new cohort of doctoral students from underrepresented backgrounds

By Harrison Tasoff

Tuesday, March 19, 2019 - 08:00

Santa Barbara, CA

Read the article about UCSB-BD published by Harrison Tasoff at The Current.  

We are excited to announce that the Apprentice Researchers (AR) high school program is back for summer 2019!  This program has a long history (1991-2011) of training and inspiring local rising-senior level high school students here at UCSB as they learn about careers in the STEM fields.  The Institute for Energy Efficiency (IEE) Apprentice Researchers program is hosted at the University of California, Santa Barbara, by the Center for Science and Engineering Partnerships (CSEP) at the California Nanosystems Institute (CNSI). 

UCSB Physicist Elisabeth Gwinn Receives 2019 AAAS Lifetime Mentor Award

“I’m grateful not only for the opportunities I’ve had to work with many marvelous students, but also for the UCSB staff who partnered with me,” Gwinn said. “Neither LEAPS nor SST would have been possible without the sustained contributions of Wendy Ibsen (associate director of CSEP) and Dr. Fiona Goodchild (founding director of CSEP), or the early leadership of Professor Evelyn Hu in establishing UCSB’s strong campus support for innovative STEM education and mentorship programs.”

Ford Foundation Fellowship Success Series

Sample Application Workshop
Deconstructing Successful Applications to Learn Helpful Strategies

Robby Nadler (Graduate Writing Specialist)

Professor Todd McDevitt, Ph.D., UCSF

Cell and Tissue Engineering Research Opportunities at UCSF

Wednesday, November 7th
12:00-1:30PM, Elings Hall 1601
*Pizza Provided*

This panel of postdocs and recently hired faculty  will share their experience of being on the academic job market. With advice for successfully moving through the application and hiring process, as well as considerations for setting up a group, they will discuss their take on some of the basics of this process --- submitting application packets, interviewing, negotiating and making decisions about job offers, and thinking about establishing their research programs.

Come learn about the new Individualized Professional​ Skills (IPS) Grant Program and hear from Nancy Scherich (PhD Student, Mathematics) about her experience at the Bridges Math-Art conference in Stockholm, Sweden.

In this conversation, I plan to share with you my career path, beginning with the decision to work in industry, culminating in becoming a CEO three times over!  My emphasis will be on describing the breadth of opportunities that exist for scientists and engineers in industry, with a focus on the biotechnology sector.  Very rarely does a career proceed in a straight line and my hope is that you embrace this and take calculated risks, as many fulfilled entrepreneurs like myself have.

Join us Monday, August 13 from 9:00 AM-5:15 PM for our Annual Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium in Elings Hall room 1601.  This celebration of UCSB STEM research highlights the CSEP summer interns in AIM Photonics Future Leaders, ComSenTer, EUREKA, Gorman, MARC U*STAR and SACNAS.  Full Program listing is attached. 

Congratulations Emre Discekici (PhD Student in Chemistry; CSEP MARC Mentor) for being awarded the 2018 Fiona & Michael Goodchild Graduate Mentoring Award!

Congratulations Colin Kim (CCS Biochemistry 2018; CSEP MARC Scholar) on being awarded the UCSB Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research for research with Prof. Irene Chen's lab in Chemistry!

Congratulations Martin Kurnik (Postdoc in Chemistry; CSEP EUREKA and Gorman Mentor) for receiving the 2018 CSEP Excellence in Mentoring award!

Thursday, May 10, 2018

2:00-2:30pm

Elings Hall 1601

*Light refreshments will be provided*

RSVP: https://forms-csep.cnsi.ucsb.edu/forms/PDS/Registration.php

Nicholas Genovese, PhD (CSO & Co-Founder Memphis Meats)

Tuesday, April 10, 2018

4:00-6:00pm, Corwin Pavilion

Everyone is welcome to attend. Light refreshments will be provided.

RSVP: https://forms-csep.cnsi.ucsb.edu/forms/PDS/Registration.php

Lana Smith-Hale, LCSW (Graduate Students Career Counselor, Graduate Students)

Thursday, April 5, 2018

2:00-3:00pm, Elings Hall 1601

*RSVP* https://forms-csep.cnsi.ucsb.edu/forms/PDS/Registration.php

Wednesday, March 7th, 2018

12:00pm-1:30pm, Elings Hall, 1601

The March 7 Lunch-and-Learn will describe both the NSF National I-Corps Program and the Innovation-Node LA funnel. A panel of prior participants of both the NSF and IN-LA programs will be on hand to discuss their experience and answer questions.

Limited Space, RSVP: https://forms-csep.cnsi.ucsb.edu/forms/PDS/Registration.php

Did you know CSEP has some very active and informative social media accounts?  While this webpage is useful and announces our center activities, we often have more to share!  So please follow and like us in whichever format(s) work for you:

Twitter @CSEP_UCSB

Facebook @CSEP.UCSB

Instagram @csep_ucsb

Tuesday, Feb 13th

5 - 6pm, 1601 Elings Hall

Dress: Casual

Food: Provided

Bring your resume!

Dr. Kimberly Tanner, SFSU

Friday, January 19, 2018

8:30am – 9:30am, Elings 1601

*Light refreshments provided.*

CSEP is excited to share the recent accomplishment of Eric Pang (2017 Gorman Scholar), who recently received an award from the Gene and Susan Lucas Undergraduate Research Fund.

From the Fund's website: "The Gene and Susan Lucas Undergraduate Research Fund was established as part of the Office of Academic Initiatives to support research projects of undergraduate, first-generation college students at UC Santa Barbara in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)."

CSEP hosted the annual Elevator Pitch in Summer 2017 for STEM undergraduate interns interested in practicing their speed science communication skills.  Videos of selected participants in CSEP programs are now available for viewing on the CSEP YouTube Channel 

Addition science communications from our interns can be found on the UCSB Undergraduate Research Blog and on the program specific webpages.

Alumni News from UCSB College of Engineering 

An Especially Well-qualified High School Science Teacher

The SBMA welcomes the 2017 Art of Science Exhibition in their Family Resource Center and hosts the Artists Reception Thursday, April 27, 5:30-7pm.  Please join us.

The Art of Science is ready to unveil the winners of the 2017 competition!  Please join us Wednesday, March 15 4:00-5:00pm in the Elings Hall Lobby for an exciting mix of beauty, appreciation, and science.   

Many thanks to the UCSB College of Engineering Marketing Team for producing videos of our 2016 Art of Science competition winners! Watch them here: http://art-csep.cnsi.ucsb.edu/news

Girl Power

The Photonics Society at UCSB encourages women to study the science of light

By Tanya Das

Jell-O, water tanks and laser beams. Using these simple tools, four female scientists gave a group of 28 girls a lesson in light technologies and a primer in photonics, the science of light.

UCSB’s Family Ultimate Science Exploration promotes science and engineering through hands-on activity evenings designed for eighth-grade students and their families

Join us Thursday, August 11, 2016

9:30-11:30 AM

Corwin Pavilion at the University Center 

Program includes:

AIM Photonics Research Apprenticeship Program (AIM Photonics)

The California Alliance for Minority Participation (CAMP)

Cooperative International Science and Engineering Internships (CISEI)

Edison-McNair Scholars Program (Edison)

Early Undergraduate Research and Knowledge Acquisition (EUREKA!)

The MARC scholars program supports students with a passion for biomedical research

Colin Kim has UC Santa Barbara chemistry professor Irene Chen to thank for bringing his career choice into focus. It was in Chen’s lab that the UCSB undergraduate discovered his passion for biomedical research.

Kim hopes to follow in Chen’s footsteps and lead his own university research lab one day. An undergraduate research program at UCSB is helping Kim make that dream a reality.

On July 27th, 2016, the Center for Science and Engineering Partnerships* and AIM Photonics hosted a lively Dinner with Industry for student in the PIPELINES, EUREKA, MARC, Gorman Scholars and AIM Apprenticeship program as part of their summer research internship professional training programming. Twenty-four scientist and engineer representatives from local companies, as well as the Navy Facilities Command, were in attendance (Agilent Tech/Dako, Apeel, Aurrion, FLIR, HP Labs, Lockheed Martin, Procore, Raytheon).

The award recognizes Arica for her service to the university through the Graduate Student Association and advocacy for graduate students.

The American Association for the Advancement of Science gives honorable mention to Tanya Das, ECE PhD Candidate, for her Education poster Assessment of an Undergraduate Engineering Design Capstone Course. Tanya worked with CSEP's Evaluation and Assessment Program Manager, Lubi Lenaberg on this project with the UCSB Mechanical Engineering Department.

The UC Santa Barbara chapter of the Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS) has received the 2015 Outstanding Regional Network Role Model Award. This award marks the fourth in as many years bestowed upon the UCSB chapter by the national organization.

A grant from the National Institutes of Health launches a program to support undergraduates interested in careers in biomedical research.