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The following is an email which Greg Mohr (BA 1976) sent to the editor on April 8, 2015: I taught Environmental Studies 165B again last quarter with a record number of students (37, compared to the usual 20 ±5), and it was a real challenge. My teaching “guest” David Stone and I offer it as a practicum follow-on to his 165A lecture class, with seven written assignments that come together at the end as a Final...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has announced this year’s recipients of Graduate Research Fellowships (GRF), and UCSB Geography graduate students Michelle Oyewole and Sarah Shivers garnered two of them. The fellowship provides three years of financial support within a five-year fellowship period ($34,000 annual stipend and $12,000 cost-of-education allowance to the graduate institution) for graduate study that leads to a...

The UCSB Geography Newsletter is a biannual production, and electronic mailings occur in spring and fall each year. And, yes, both publication dates are calculated to “brand” the Department and to encourage donations (just before Christmas and just before tax filing). You can download a PDF of the spring edition here. The content of each Newsletter revolves around major Departmental news items since the last mailing and...