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Enjoy some free wine and snacks on May 25th at 6 p.m. at UCSB's first Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER) talks at the MSI auditorium. Presenters' work will center on the theme of environmental change.

UCSB has recently established a multi-disciplinary team to assist students who are experiencing a financial crisis. If you are experiencing an urgent financial crisis, email the Financial Crisis Response Team who will help you develop a plan of action.

Join us for another Resilient Love in a Time of Hate series event. In memory of the Isla Vista Tragedy, a panel of speakers will discuss the ways in which the Isla Vista and UCSB community come together and engage in collective healing.

UCSB's Black Graduate Student Association is hosting the 2017 Black Summit, a day of collective care and community on Friday, May 19, from noon to 5 p.m. in the Multicultural Center Theater. This event is free to attend.

The 2017 MAT End-of Year-Show: Re-habituation has a full line-up of events including an exhibition on Friday, May 19, and a concert on Saturday, May 20, encompassing work by over 50 artists and researchers.

Author and activist Winona LaDuke will speak at Pollock Theater Monday, May 15, at 7 p.m. There will also be a reception for students to meet LaDuke at 5:30 p.m. ​at the American Indian Cultural Resource Center ​the SRB.

Omar Souleyman, former Syrian wedding-singer and now indie EDM star, will perform a free show with an opening by UCSB's Middle East Ensemble. The concert will also serve as a forum to raise awareness of the evolving humanitarian crisis in Syria and offer a space for attendees to participate in relief efforts.

As part of the UCSB Multicultural Center's Race Matters Series, Dr. Michael Hanchard will speak about the role democracy has played throughout history in the formation and shaping of racial regimes and ethno-national regimes in the MCC Lounge on Tuesday, May 9, at 6 p.m.

​Join ​the Department of Theater & Dance for their first-annual graduate research symposium, "Global Flows: Resistance & Performance" on Saturday, May 6.

As part of the "Race Matters" series, UCSB Chicana/o Studies Professor Micaela J. Díaz-Sánchez will speak about the Afro-Puerto Rican musical tradition of bomba at the Multicultural Center Theater on Tuesday, May 2, at 6 p.m.

Since the election of Donald Trump, the U.S. has witnessed an outpouring of protest activity. Hahrie Han (UCSB Political Science) will discuss how protest effects political outcomes and what this means for protest activity today.

Today is your last chance to make your voice heard in the campus elections! Casting a ballot takes just a few minutes, and we need at least 20% participation from grad students to validate the election results, so be sure to vote today by 4 p.m.!

Are you a graduate student parent with childcare expenses? Then be sure to check out the updated eligibility requirements for the Graduate Student Association's Childcare Grant, which have been expanded to give more graduate students access to the grant.

Catch the last few events this week as UCSB celebrates #BlackLivesMatter and student activism with a series of lectures, workshops, and films. All events are free, but some require registration.

Alicia Garza – activist, organizer, and co-founder of #BlackLivesMatter – will speak at Campbell Hall on Wednesday, April 26, at 7 p.m.

The film, which chronicles the systematic defunding and commodification of higher education, will screen for free at the Multicultural Center Theater on Wednesday, April 26, at 6 p.m.

This UC guide for faculty and staff is also useful for graduate students who work with undergraduates or who would like more information about the student mental health services that are there to support them.

In appreciation of graduate student support, Arts & Lectures is offering UCSB graduate students with valid ID a free pair of tickets to Julian Lage & Chris Eldridge with Aoife O’Donovan, while supplies last.

Come meet Luis Alberto Urrea, the best-selling author of this year's UCSB Reads book "Into the Beautiful North," at a special networking reception for graduate students on Monday, April 24.

Did you know that each year graduate students from every UC campus travel to Sacramento to school lawmakers about the importance of graduate research? Meet this year's advocates: Lois Harmon from Education and Tori Greenen from Environmental Science & Management.