Iridian Pineda, a fourth-year Latin American and Iberian Studies major at UC Santa Barbara works with the Community Based Literacies (CBL) group to present Latin American history to Latinx children. Pineda combines her major in Latin American Studies with a minor in Education.
Texas A&M University health and kinesiology professor Idethia S. Harvey gave a lecture to UCSB’s Center for Black Studies Research called “Diabetes is a Struggle.”
In this talk, Harvey said the high rate of Type 2 diabetes among rural black Americans can be traced to “stressors” faced by this community such as poverty, substance abuse issues, and food deserts.
Each of us can take meaningful steps to lower our carbon footprint and help the planet, Humanities and Fine Arts faculty members told a UC Santa Barbara audience at HFA Speaks: An Earth Day Agenda. English professor Ken Hiltner and Film and Media Studies professor Alenda Chang shared their vast knowledge and interdisciplinary insights with students to honor Earth Day.
UC Berkeley electrical engineering and computer science professor Hany Farid and founder of Stanford’s Computational Policy Lab Sharad Goel spoke with UCSB students last week about the accuracy, fairness, and limits of the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning in the sphere of criminal justice.
UCSB's Carsey-Wolf Center hosted experts from the University of Michigan and the University of Texas, Austin to discuss the groundbreaking 1983 film "El Norte," which was recently restored. They said the film catalyzed immigration reform activism in the United States.
Alisha Wormsley, who teaches at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburg, is known for her film and sound installation projects, which she discussed as part of the UCSB’s Art Colloquium, that runs for 10 weeks. Over 200 faculty members and students tuned in to the Zoom lecture to hear how she uses art to create a creative space for Black women.
Professor JoAnn Kuchera-Morin is a composer and chief scientist of UC Santa Barbara’s revolutionary data visualization tool the AlloSphere. There Kuchera-Morin realized that the future of scientific research is having STEM fields collaborate with artists and composers.
Dancer and scholar, Kiri Avelar of Ballet Hispanico, presented her talk, Descubriendo Latinx: The Hidden Text in American Modern Dance, to a UC Santa Barbara audience as part of the Colloquia in Dance series. In her lecture she discussed how the pioneers of early American modern dance pulled from Latinx cultural artistic practices to create the modern dance techniques that are prevalent today.
