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Is the stress of the winter quarter already setting in? Join your fellow grads for a free yoga event sponsored by Health & Wellness. The first six guests will also receive a free mat!

Get your free copy of this year's UCSB Reads book, "Into the Beautiful North," at a free giveaway event featuring UCSB Chancellor Henry Yang, Executive Vice Chancellor David Marshall, and University Librarian Denise Stephens.

The Day of Democratic Education will be a series of panels and discussions at Corwin Pavilion, featuring over 50 faculty and graduate students leading talks in the form of dialogic panel discussions around themes highlighted by the recent election.

UCSB Counseling and Psychological Services and the MultiCultural Center invites all Asian/Asian American (South, South East, East) and Pacific Islander-identified undergraduate and graduate students to Supporting Healthy Asian/Asian American Pacific Islanders (HAAPI).

What better way to ease back into another academic term than with a free 10-minute massage? Join Health & Wellness for their Wellness Welcome on January 12, where grad students can enjoy free massages, snacks, and coloring books!

​If you enjoy relaxation, good food, ​and socializing, be sure to check out all of the ​awesome events that Health & Wellness has planned just for graduate students during the winter quarter!

The Art of Science initiative invites UCSB students and postdocs to tell the story of their research through the aesthetic. Prizes are awarded for first place, second place, third place, and community vote winners. The deadline to submit is February 3.

CAPS will be closed from December 14 through January 2, but phone consultations and counseling is available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year at 805-893-4411.

If you're staying in town for the holidays, you can still access many of the services at Student Health, and all students have access to the 24-hour Nurse Line for any medical questions or concerns.

This past weekend was the much-anticipated Fall Dance Concert, featuring the work of three student-choreographers, a guest choreographer, and two UCSB faculty members. ​The theme of the show was Double Exposure: revealing, relating, responding.

Dr. Ruby Mendenhall, Associate Professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, will host a colloquium, “Racial Microaggressions in Higher Education: Doing the Difficult Work of Building a Diverse and Inclusive Community” on December 2.

Take a much-needed break before finals week and support UCSB's incredible dancers in their Fall Dance Concert titled "Exposure: Revealing, Relating, Responding," happening on December 2 and 3.

Be sure to stop by the Express Flu Shot Clinics that occur every Friday at Student Health from 1:30-3:30 p.m. Students covered under Gaucho Health Insurance (GHI) receive the flu shot for FREE! Non-GHI students are able to get the shot for $30.

Interested in being a Graduate Resident Assistant (RA) for the 2017-2018 school year? Come to this info session on Monday, November 28, at 7 p.m. in the San Clemente Center! Attending the session does not obligate you to apply and non-attendance does not disqualify you from applying.

Neko Case, singer-songwriter and member of the New Pornographers, played to a fan-friendly audience at Campbell Hall on Friday, November 18, showcasing her unique voice and low-key charm to an adoring and generous audience.

Join ​the MultiCultural Center as Gamelan Sekar Jaya offers a scintillating performance of Balinese music and dance, complete with gongs, flutes, metallophones of bronze and bamboo, fluttering fingers, and the powerfully-determined expressions of golden-clad dancers.

In celebration of 50 years since the formation of the Black Panther Party, the MultiCultural Center will host artists Emory Douglas and Akinsanya Kambon on Monday, November 14, from 6-8 p.m. in the MultiCultural Center Theater.

Join the UCSB MultiCultural Center for a free discussion ​this afternoon called "The 2016 Election – The Day After: What's Next? Where Do We Go From Here?" The event will be held from 3:30-5 p.m. in the MCC Theater.

Joan Baez merged her folk songs with her strong political views at the UCSB Arts & Lectures concert at the Arlington Theatre to entertain and politically engage her audience in a way that only she can do – and has been doing since the 60s.

The conference is organized by UC-Mexicanistas, an intercampus research association of faculty and former students developing scholarship in the areas of Mexican literature, culture, and history. The first session begins Thursday, November 10, at 5 p.m. in the Multicultural Center Theater.