UCSB Graduate Division

A happy conclusion to a day well done — lunch at the Faculty Club with our UC LEADS and Cal-Bridge ARC scholars! (Photo credit Karen Gavin van Gool )

Congratulations to all our Academic Research Colloquium scholars from UC LEADS and Cal-Bridge who participated in the 2026 The Center for Science & Engineering Partnerships Research Colloquium today! Undergraduate students from various STEM research programs across UCSB met colleagues, mentors, staff, and faculty to showcase their summer research. (Photo credit Dr. Carlos M Nash )

We are pleased to announce the launch of the Graduate Professional Development Unit’s new webpages on the UC Santa Barbara Graduate Division website. Professional Development content previously housed on GradPost has been relocated to its new permanent home at graddiv.ucsb.edu/prodev. Please make sure to update any links on your webpages that currently point to GradPost’s professional development pages — see link in bio.

📅 Save the Date: September 19!

Thinking about graduate school? Join all 10 University of California campuses for Next Step UC, a one-day virtual graduate school conference designed to help you explore your future.

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We applaud our scholars and our UC Santa Barbara faculty, staff, and graduate students for making this year’s Symposium a wonderful experience for all. We love seeing the connections and mentorship between fellow scholars, graduate students, faculty, and staff — what a great summer!

So many insights and discoveries shared by our scholars at second half of the ARC Symposium — bravo! Congrats to all our presenters for an amazing job!

Our first group of ARC presenters at the Symposium ROCKED IT! Congratulations and can’t wait to see the next group!

GETTING READY: Our ARC Scholars from the UCSB-CSU SRI, Sally Casanova, and Cal-Bridge programs will be presenting at Henley Hall in a few minutes. Can’t wait to hear about what they have been working on all summer here at UC Santa Barbara ❤️