Posts by geogadmin

The UCSB Staff Assembly invited departments and offices to join the Halloween festivities and win lunch for its staff by entering into the 11th Annual Halloween Decorating contest. On Friday, October 30th, Staff Assembly visited each participating department or office to judge their Halloween spirit, based on decorations and costumes. Participating offices and departments included Geography, the Disabled Students Program,...

“As of 2014, ten Nobel laureates are associated with UCSB. UC Santa Barbara currently has six Nobel laureates on its faculty, out of the eight full-time faculty members who have won the Prize” (source). But you could argue that Geography Professor Emeritus Michael Goodchild should be added to the list(s). Dr. Goodchild was the recipient of the Prix Vautrin Lud, regarded by many as Geography’s equivalent of the Nobel Prize,...

As another exciting academic year at UC Santa Barbara gets underway, I want to take a moment to welcome our new and returning students and all of the members of our campus community. On September 21, we officially welcomed our new class of incoming freshmen and transfer students at our annual New Student Convocation ceremony on the Faculty Club Green. We are proud to say that these students were selected from the largest applicant...