Upcoming Events

Sign-making Party for the March for Science

We’re collaborating on the March for Science by hosting a sign-making party on Wednesday, March 5th, from 10-1 in the GSA Lounge Conference Room. We’ll have supplies – just bring your artistic skills and witty words!

Women’s History Month Event

We’re collaborating with many of our favorite organizations to have a Women’s Empowerment event this Thursday, March 6th. See details and RSVP below so there’s enough food!

March for Science!

Our campus is hosting a local version of the Washington Stand up for Science event (standupforscience2025.org) on March 7th at noon against the recent anti-research actions by the new administration. We’ll be meeting on the Chem Lawn. To RSVP for the rally, fill out the form here! Everyone is welcome. 

Women’s Center 50th Anniversary Gala

The Women’s Center is excited to invite you to our 50th Year Anniversary Gala! See below for details and please feel free to share the invitation with your students, colleagues, and friends.  

Summer Fellowships open now, closing March 7th!

We are excited to announce that applications are now open for the WiSE Summer Fellowships! These awards are intended to support a top UCSB STEM graduate student from an underrepresented background affiliated with Womxn in Science & Engineering (WiSE) or an affiliated campus organization at UCSB. Questions may be directed to john.lofthus@ucsb.edu.

Available Fellowships:

• Decolvenaere Research Accelerator Award (x2)  – The Decolvenaere Research Accelerator Award is intended to support a top UCSB STEM graduate student from an underrepresented background affiliated with Womxn in Science & Engineering (WiSE) or an affiliated campus organization at UCSB.
•  Helen Hansma Research Accelerator Award(x5) – Supports 5 talented grad students conducting kelp / seagrass / climate change research with full summer funding. These fellowships will provide $10K in funding per award.  
•  BD Biosciences Research Accelerator Award (x2)  – There is a preference for graduate students who are helping to develop novel technologies and techniques in the fields of biological engineering and quantitative biosciences, with a special emphasis on interdisciplinary approaches to cellular and molecular analysis.

We encourage all eligible students to apply.

 Apply now:  APPLICATION LINK

 Deadline: March 7th, 2025

Professional Events

We’ll be hosting a lightning talk workshop in April for those who want to brush up on those skills, with the specific aim of helping us learn to share our science with the public. Keep an eye out for more details!

Outreach Opportunities

Volunteer for Her Science Lab!

We’re planning an outreach event in May geared towards Santa Barbara local middle school students interested in STEM. We are looking for graduate students to design and lead workshops to garner student interest in STEM-related topics. This is a non-binding interest form, we will reach out to you with more information once we determine your workshop could be a good fit for our event.

Workshop Details:

• Workshops will have at least one instructor and up to 10 students.
• Workshops should be roughly 1 hour long.
• Workshops can cover any STEM topic(s) you like with the goal of getting students excited about engaging in STEM activities.
• We are planning to have students rotate through workshops so you will lead the same workshop 3-5 times over the course of the day.

Previous workshops have been on 3D printing, bioluminescence, the science of chocolate, quantum computers, and more!