Teaching
GSA Excellence in Teaching Award (ETA)
The GSA Excellence in Teaching Award (ETA) recognizes graduate students who have shown excellence and gone above and beyond as teachers at UC Santa Barbara. Take the chance to give back and nominate your favorite teaching assistants and teaching associates! Anyone in the UC Santa Barbara campus community can nominate a teaching assistant or associate for this award.
Academic Senate Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award
The Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award recognizes the contributions of UCSB graduate students to teaching and learning. The recipients are selected by a committee composed of representatives from the Graduate Council and Council on Faculty Welfare, Academic Freedom, and Awards, as well as past recipients of the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award. Up to four recipients are selected, each of whom receives an honorarium of $1,000 and a framed certificate.
Mentorship
Research Mentorship Program
The Research Mentorship Program is a competitive, six-week summer program that engages qualified, high-achieving high school students worldwide in interdisciplinary, hands-on, university-level research. Students will be paired up with a mentor (graduate student, postdoc, or faculty) and choose a research project from a large list of disciplines the program offers each year.
CSEP Mentor Leadership Program (STEM only)
The Mentor Leadership program at the Center for Science and Engineering Partnerships (CSEP) was established in 2022 to support student-driven innovations and skills required to be an effective and trusted mentor. The program provides an annual fellowship in the amount of $5K ($4K stipend, $1K activities/supplies) awarded to one science, engineering or mathematics graduate student to serve as a CSEP Mentor Leadership Fellow. The selected fellow acts as a lead mentor for graduate students and postdocs across a wide range of STEM disciplines, serving as a role model and guide for developing mentoring expertise.
UCSB Graduate Division Graduate Mentoring Awards
To recognize and encourage the efforts of graduate students who serve as effective mentors, the Graduate Division of UC Santa Barbara presents two awards for students who have distinguished themselves in the area of undergraduate research supervision: the Fiona and Michael Goodchild Graduate Mentoring Award and the Carol Genetti Graduate Mentoring Award. Four recipients of the Fiona and Michael Goodchild Graduate Mentoring Award and four recipients of the Carol Genetti Graduate Mentoring Award will receive $1000 each (eight awards in all).
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