Past Events
- Fri, 05/12/2023 - 7:30pm
- Sat, 05/13/2023 - 3:00pm
- Sat, 05/13/2023 - 7:30pm
- Sun, 05/14/2023 - 7:30pm
Location: UCSB Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall
The UCSB 2023 Opera "Burning to Sing" is a comedic and charming production that promises to leave audiences thoroughly entertained. This ironic tale of Madame Tremolini, voice teacher extraordinaire and cast of colorful characters in a 1950's apartment building that is slowly catching fire, will have you grinning from ear to ear with delight. The witty score sets the perfect backdrop for this amusing operetta.
Whether you're an opera enthusiast or just...
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- Fri, 05/12/2023 - 9:00am to 5:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
This is a one-day workshop to learn about UCSB's new three-year licenses for accessing Planet Labs imagery, web applications, and visualization tools. Planet provides daily satellite imagery of the Earth’s land surfaces and coastal areas. UCSB’s access includes the RapidEye Archive, SkySat Archive, and daily PlanetScope imagery. In the morning we will introduce Planet and the available products, some use cases, and...
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- Wed, 05/10/2023 - 7:30pm
Location: UCSB Campbell Hall
UCSB Library is excited to present Charles Montgomery, UCSB Reads 2023 author of Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design for a free community talk at Campbell Hall.
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Event is free but registration through the Arts & Lectures portal is...
- Mon, 04/17/2023 - 10:00am to 12:00pm
- Wed, 05/10/2023 - 10:00am to 12:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
The UCSB Library will be offering two Zotero workshops for graduate students during the spring quarter. Zotero is a free bibliography management tool that helps you collect citations for your research and generate entries for notes and bibliographies. While the workshops are designed for graduate students, UCSB faculty and other affiliated researchers are welcome to attend.
The “Zotero Basics” workshops last two hours and will cover all aspects of...
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- Tue, 05/09/2023 - 6:00pm to 7:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
Snacks and drinks will be provided! Sign up here! Join a student-led book club to discuss this year’s UCSB Reads book selection, Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design by Charles Montgomery, which explores...
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- Fri, 05/05/2023 - 9:00am to 1:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 2509
ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Online are a powerful software duo that support geospatial data processing, analysis, visualization, and the cloud-based sharing of geospatial products. In this one-day, example-driven workshop, we’ll review how to most effectively use...
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- Fri, 04/28/2023 - 2:30pm to 8:30pm
Location: Other, on-campus
UCSB’s Department of Theater and Dance, Department of Art, College of Creative Studies, Art, Design & Architecture Museum, MultiCultural Center and Library will host the Annual UCSB Arts Walk.
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- Fri, 04/28/2023 - 8:00am to Mon, 05/01/2023 - 5:00pm
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Join UCSB Reads 2023 in participating in the Santa Barbara City Nature Challenge! Let's celebrate the nature in and around our urban areas by documenting all the species we can find. The City Nature Challenge is an international community science effort for people to find and document plants and wildlife in cities across the globe.
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- Tue, 04/25/2023 - 9:30am to 12:00pm
- Wed, 04/26/2023 - 9:30am to 12:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
This event is a two-day, example-driven workshop on April 25-26, 2023 for an introduction on utilizing the terminal to use version control with Git. We will get you started on how to use the command shell/bash to use git. The use of a shell allows you to perform complex and powerful tasks, often with just...
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- Tue, 04/25/2023 - 9:30am to 12:00pm
- Wed, 04/26/2023 - 9:30am to 12:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
This event is a two-day, example-driven workshop on April 25-26, 2023 for an introduction on utilizing the terminal to use version control with Git. We will get you started on how to use the command shell/bash to use git. The use of a shell allows you to perform complex and powerful tasks, often with just...
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- Fri, 04/21/2023 - 12:00pm to 1:15pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
Join us for Lunch & Learn, where you'll have the chance to socialize with other grad students and hear talks by students in Global Studies and Geography. Lunch & Learn is co-sponsored by the Graduate Division,...
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- Wed, 04/19/2023 - 6:00pm to 7:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
Snacks and drinks will be provided! ...
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- Mon, 04/17/2023 - 10:00am to 12:00pm
- Wed, 05/10/2023 - 10:00am to 12:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
The UCSB Library will be offering two Zotero workshops for graduate students during the spring quarter. Zotero is a free bibliography management tool that helps you collect citations for your research and generate entries for notes and bibliographies. While the workshops are designed for graduate students, UCSB faculty and other affiliated researchers are welcome to attend.
The “Zotero Basics” workshops last two hours and will cover all aspects of...
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- Wed, 04/12/2023 - 5:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
Please RSVP here!
Join us at UCSB Library for a free zine workshop, no experience necessary! Participants will learn how to make a zine exploring themes in the UCSB Reads 2023 book “Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design” by Charles Montgomery....
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- Thu, 04/06/2023 - 5:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
Please join UCSB Library at a public reception to celebrate its new exhibition of student work Happy City: Isla Vista. The exhibition is drawn from the layouts of UCSB's literary magazine The "Catalyst," whose Winter 2023 issue is themed to connect to the UCSB Reads 2023 selection, "Happy City: Transforming...
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- Wed, 04/05/2023 - 6:00pm to 7:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
Join a student-led book club to discuss this year’s UCSB Reads book selection, Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design by Charles Montgomery, which explores how our communities do or do not make us happy.
Snacks and drinks will be provided! ...
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- Wed, 04/05/2023 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
This workshop will provide graduate students with practical tips and strategies for creating Literature Reviews in the humanities and social sciences.
You will learn the following:
- What Literature Reviews are, and where to find them
- How to use concept mapping to identify which secondary sources you need
- How to find and organize your sources to facilitate your writing ...
- Tue, 04/04/2023 - 4:30pm to 6:00pm
Location: Mountain Courtyard
Join the UCSB Library and Graduate Division for this fun social event. This event is FREE to all current graduate students. RSVP here.
**If you would like to drink wine at this event, be sure to bring either a passport or driver's license so we can verify that you are over 21.
This event will be photographed or recorded.
- Wed, 03/22/2023 - 5:00pm
Location: Special Research Collections
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Join UCSB Library for a reception and conversation with Isis Aquarian about her life with the Source Family, a commune in Los Angeles in the early 1970s based on natural food, spiritual practices and psychedelic rock, and how she came to place the commune's archival materials with UCSB Library. Jodi Willie and Charlie Kitchings...
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- Fri, 03/17/2023 - 11:00am to 2:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
Take a healthy study break before finals. Stretch, color, grab snacks, and pick up free bluebooks and scantrons. Sign-up for a massage (first-come, first-served, in person, starting at 10:50am).
In collaboration with UCSB Health & Wellness and UCSB ONDAS Student Center.
This event will be photographed or recorded.
- Fri, 03/03/2023 - 12:00pm to 1:15pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
Join us for Lunch & Learn, where you'll have the chance to socialize with other grad students and hear talks by students in Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology, and Economics. Lunch & Learn is co-sponsored by the ...
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- Fri, 03/03/2023 - 11:00am
Location: Other, on-campus
Space is limited, please RSVP here
In conjunction with UCSB Reads 2023, Silvia Perea, Curator of the Architecture and Design Collection (ADC) at UCSB’s ...
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- Thu, 03/02/2023 - 11:00am
Location: Other, on-campus
Space is limited, please RSVP here
In conjunction with UCSB Reads 2023, Silvia Perea, Curator of the Architecture and Design Collection (ADC) at UCSB’s AD&A Museum, will lead a behind-the-scenes...
- Wed, 03/01/2023 - 11:30am to 12:30pm
Location: Online, Other, on-campus
The CSC will be offering a workshop, Parallel Programming with Python on HPC on Wednesday, Mar 1 from 11:30 am - 12:30 pm, in Elings/CNSI 1605.Parallel processing is a powerful operation tool in that the task is executed simultaneously in multiple processors and can vastly accelerate various computational tasks. It is meant to reduce the overall program execution time and speed up the computational performance. In this workshop, you'll learn some knowledge to write python code...
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