The Academic Senate is the voice of the faculty in the University of California. The Senate is the one organization that enables the faculty, through shared governance, to exercise its right to participate in the University's governance. To that end, faculty and administrators depend on a high level of consultation, trust, mutual respect and a tradition of collegial collaboration. It is for these reasons that the Academic Senate seeks wide faculty involvement for all of its councils and committees.
Marking the second-best year in the university’s fundraising history, UC Santa Barbara raised $119 million in private gifts for fiscal year 2016. The generosity…
Call them “internal events.” Thomas Scheff does.
The UC Santa Barbara sociologist considers the phrase an apt descriptor for emotions, those intangible queues w…
In 1929 one of the deadliest earthquakes in Canadian history occurred, when a magnitude 7.2 temblor centered about 250 miles south of the island of Newfoundland…
Deep in the hills of South Dakota, scientists are poised to build the world’s most sensitive dark matter detector, known as LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ).
Named for the merge…
His masterwork is long gone, but his masterstroke — no less than “a new architecture for the West” — can still be seen across Southern California. And now, an e…
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Gauchos are busy people. Diverse, active, passionate, innovative, entrepreneurial people. Sometimes the only way to appreciate it all is to slow it down. As Fer…
Imagine charging your cellphone anywhere without having to plug in. Or barely breaking a sweat outside in the middle of summer. How about using a high-performan…
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Speaking to the strength of research at UC Santa Barbara, eight postdoctoral scholars have received recognition and support to help them further their studies.…
Maybe it’s all the plastic you see on the beach where you take your kids. Or that news story you read about shark-finning and can’t quite get it out of your min…
On the 15th anniversary of the destruction that wounded a country, the National September 11 Memorial & Museum brimmed with some 8,000 people who had gather…
Can the flapping of a butterfly’s wing over the Amazon really set off a hurricane in, say, Houston? The idea that small causes can have large effects would sugg…
Promising both familiar faces and exciting new talent, a fresh season of arts events at UC Santa Barbara — both entertaining and scholarly — will feature an arr…
Antimicrobial cutting boards. Flame-retardant carpets. Friction-resistant bearings. Engineered surfaces add value to the things we use, providing extra layers o…
UC Academic Senate - The Senate Source (August 2016)
The Senate Source is an online newsletter that is published quarterly by the Systemwide Senate and intended to inform UC faculty about the activities of the Senate. Posted: August 18, 2016
UC Academic Senate - The Senate Source (April 2016)
The Senate Source is an online newsletter that is published quarterly by the Systemwide Senate and intended to inform UC faculty about the activities of the Senate. Posted: April 15, 2016
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