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The UCSB Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry provides exciting research at the cutting edge of modern chemical and biochemical science. Our faculty is exceptionally distinguished, including two Nobel laureates, and publications from our department were the 7th most cited in the nation among all chemistry departments, as reported by Chemical and Engineering News.

We offer state-of-the-art facilities for research in all areas of chemistry and biochemistry. Graduates of the PhD program are well-equipped to pursue a wide variety of career options. For a partial list of employers of our alumni, take a look at our Alumni Job Placement Fact Sheet.

Our program fosters interdisciplinary collaborations both on campus and with scientists nationally and internationally. Affiliated research units on campus include the Materials Research Laboratory, the California Nanosystems Institute, the Institute for Terahertz Science and Technology, the Neuroscience Research Institute, the Marine Science Institute, the Center for BioEngineering, and the Mitsubishi Chemical - Center for Advanced Materials.

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To ensure that non-profits and social enterprises committed to education, health, and poverty alleviation can reach their full potential by meeting their demand for very affordable, high-quality strategic and operational assistance, and in so doing developing the next generation of social impact leaders

Visit our website for more information about our club and how to join: https://ucsb180dc.weebly.com/

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- Gain hands on experience in working with outside organizations and addressing issues with innovative, practical and sustainable solutions
- Access to educational materials and case studies for interviewing practice
- Getting to meet, learn, and work with similarly like-minded and driven students

Mission Contact: Natasha Auer

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Active Minds is a national 501(c)3 organization that empowers students to speak openly about mental health in order to educate others and encourage help-seeking. We are changing the culture on campuses and in the community by providing information, leadership opportunities and advocacy training to the next generation.

By developing and supporting chapters of a student-run mental health awareness, education, and advocacy group on campuses nationwide, the nonprofit organization works to increase students’ awareness of mental health issues, provide information and resources regarding mental health and mental illness, encourage students to seek help as soon as it is needed, and serve as liaison between students and the mental health community.

Through campus-wide events and national programs, Active Minds aims to remove the stigma that surrounds mental health issues, and create a comfortable environment for an open conversation about mental health issues on campuses nationwide.

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Mission Contact: Austin Zhang

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We’re a campus ministry on the UC Santa Barbara campus that believes that college is the perfect time to explore the big questions like, “Does God exist?” and “What am I here for?”

At A2F, we meet weekly on campus to study the Bible, as well as throughout the week for small groups and other activities. It’s a safe place to make some friends, think about the big questions of life, and get some answers as we investigate and discover God’s purpose for us.

At Acts2Fellowship, we try to recreate what we read in Acts chapter 2 of the Bible — ordinary folks forming an extraordinary community — and we invite you to join us!

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Department of Special Research Collections (SRC) in the UCSB Library) with consideration of the group’s founding scope statement:

“The UC Santa Barbara Library has agreed to preserve and make accessible historical materials related to the tragedy of May 23, 2014 in the Department of Special Collections. To accomplish this goal, two library representatives are working with the Ad-Hoc Memorial Preservation Group to identify, acquire, preserve, and describe materials related to the incident. The group has been actively collecting two types of materials in both digital and physical formats: 1) a representative sample of condolence items and 2) records documenting the University’s response to the event. The first meeting of the Ad-Hoc Group was held on June 13, 2014. Since that date the membership has expanded so that the group has representatives of campus administration, the Library, the faculty, graduate and undergraduate students, and UCSB Alumni.”

While the collection is now processed and subject to the collection practices of the Department of Special Research Collections, this group may be involved in activities to further engage faculty, staff, and community members in continuing memorialization and in educational engagement activities related to the tragedy and the memorial collection.

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UCSB Adventure Programs exists to enhance campus and community life by providing educational and recreational experiences through wilderness trips, outdoor recreation classes, ropes courses, and climbing center programs. Our philosophy is to hire people who are responsible, enthusiastic, hardworking, and willing to learn. More important than technical experience in the activities we do, we want people who are “heads up” in terms of risk management, awareness, customer service and interested in professional development. Many of the skills necessary for employment can be learned on the job or during the Leadership Training Course.

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The long-term goal of Adventures in Caring is to produce the materials, methods, and programs that ensure the practice of compassion for the sick will be reliably passed on to future generations of professional and volunteer caregivers—at a standard that demonstrably benefits the healing process—so that the mental, emotional and spiritual distress encountered by those who suffer from illness or trauma is alleviated to the point that their state-of-mind becomes an asset to the healing of their body.

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The Aerospace and Aviation Club is intended to set a reliable platform for anyone who has a passion for aerospace and aviation at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Members are welcome to communicate in such an enjoyable and professional atmosphere. Aviation related lessons and resources are shared regularly to promote recreational fly safety and help members on the potential path to the aviation career or aerospace industry.

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The African diasporic Cultural Resource Center (AdCRC) educates, promotes, and encourages the interaction and dialogue among the diverse ethnic groups within the African diasporic communities of UCSB and to promote cross cultural learning and interaction amongst all ethnic groups. The AdCRC is an environment for students, staff, faculty and community members to develop an understanding of and appreciation for their African diasporic cultural identities. AdCRC staff strives to create and maintain a welcoming atmosphere for all to acquire knowledge in relation to the diversity of cultures within the African diaspora.

The AdCRC strives to assist in the holistic development of students of the African diaspora by focusing on several areas: academic excellence, cultural awareness, leadership development, social involvement, and proactive civic engagement. As a result of successfully developing our students in each of the aforementioned areas, the AdCRC, in turn, aids in the overall retention and graduation rates of our Black students at UCSB.

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Mission Contact: Sneha Bhetanabhotla

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To promote awareness of, and exposure to South Asian classical art forms including, but not limited to: classical and semi-classical forms of music and dance.
To facilitate cross-cultural artistic innovation in the form of fusion performances.
To provide a platform for new and continuing musicians to collaborate with other artists who come from similar traditions.

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The Alpha Chi Omega Fraternity is devoted to enriching the lives of members through lifetime opportunities of friendship, leadership, learning, and service.

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Alpha Kappa Psi is recognized as the premier developer of principled business leaders, and has grown to become the oldest and largest professional business fraternity in the world.

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Our campus ministry seeks to help college students grow closer to God and connect to Him in incredible ways!

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Closeness to God; deep, long-lasting relationships; leadership development and training; service to the community and those in need.

Mission Contact: Tabatha Stevens

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PREAMBLE
We, the sisters of Alpha Phi, in Convention Assembled, accept the Constitution and Bylaws in honor of ten young women who, with high purpose and glad hearts, entered into the bonds of fraternal association that together they might better seek to develop the highest type of womanhood.
Constitution and Bylaws 1 June 2018
Article I
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The name of this Fraternity shall be Alpha Phi International Fraternity, Incorporated.
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The objects of our Fraternity are the promotion of growth in character, unity of feeling, sisterly affection and social communion among our members. In all that we do, we try to obey God’s principles of justice and right. We have banded ourselves together to improve our minds and hearts, and we seek to aid each other through a constant watchcare always given in love. We believe ourselves to be sincere searchers for truth.
We seek the highest ideal of womanhood, and we try to gain this ideal by cultivating not only the power and passion for seeking intellectual development, but also the spirit of love and charity. And we who are thus united are under a solemn pledge to lend a helping hand to one another.
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PHILOSOPHY
An Alpha Phi shall conduct herself morally, intellectually and physically in a manner which bespeaks pride in self and respect for the goals and ideals of Alpha Phi International Fraternity (hereafter, “the Fraternity”). In pursuit of the highest ideal of womanhood, each Member (Article XIV, Section 1) shall be a positive influence as a Greek, campus and community leader.
The Fraternity has, since inception, encouraged each Member to strive for self-respect and self-knowledge in an effort to foster the personal development of each Member. The Fraternity supports the concept of equality and is committed to building a society where human judgments are based on merit, without regard to gender, race, religious preference, or disability. The Fraternity firmly repudiates actions and statements that negate the concepts of self-respect, personal development, equality and dignity.

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Alpha Phi International Fraternity, Incorporated, founded in 1872 and originally incorporated as The Michaelanean Society in the city of Syracuse, Onondaga County in the state of New York on March 20, 1874, is a fraternal and benevolent corporation organized for purposes other than pecuniary profit. Our Membership is composed of undergraduate women affiliated with Collegiate Chapters (Article XII, Section 1) at accredited colleges and universities, and Alumnae Members (Article XIV, Section 1(B). Membership in the Fraternity is a lifelong association.
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GOVERNMENT
The general government of this Fraternity shall be vested in the Convention. The International Executive Board shall serve as fiduciaries and shall be responsible for governance decisions, including but not limited to planning, evaluation, and policy setting. The Fraternity, its Members and Chapters, the Convention, and all Corporate Officers shall be governed by the Constitution and Bylaws of the Fraternity (Constitution and Bylaws). The International Executive Board (Article VIII) shall establish Policies & Procedures of the Fraternity (Policies & Procedures) consistent with this Article V.
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MEMBERSHIP
Membership in this Fraternity shall be open to qualified women and shall be attained only by election and initiation in accordance with the Constitution and Bylaws and the prescribed Ritual of the Fraternity (Article XVIII). Membership is traditionally rooted in the Collegiate Member experience and continues after college or university as an Alumna Member. Membership may also commence as an Alumna Initiate (one who is invited to membership outside the collegiate organization).
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ALPHA PHI FOUNDATION
The Alpha Phi Foundation, (hereafter “the Foundation”) shall be the Fraternity’s philanthropic partner. Members should support the Foundation annually at the level
they are able, by attending the Foundation’s philanthropic events and by making personal donations to same.

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VISION: Alpha Phi Omega will be the premier, inclusive, campus-based, leadership development organization
through the provision of service to others and the creation of community.

MISSION: Prepare campus and community leaders through service.

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Mission Contact: Haley Bjursten, Sarah Tappin, Valerie Htun

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Alpha Sigma Kappa, Women in Technical Studies, is a professional sorority for women pursuing STEM majors. ASK is a unique sisterhood as we are both a social and technical group; our goal is to empower women in STEM while striving to balance academics with social life.

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To bind men together in a brotherhood based upon eternal and immutable principles, with a bond as strong as right itself and as lasting as humanity; to know no North, no South, no East, no West, but to know man as man, to teach that true men the world over should stand together and contend for supremacy of good over evil; to teach, not politics, but morals; to foster, not partisanship, but the recognition of true merit wherever found; to have no narrower limits within which to work together for the elevation of man than the outlines of the world: these were the thoughts and hopes uppermost in the minds of the founders of the Alpha Tau Omega Fraternity.

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To advance gender equity for women and girls through research, education, and advocacy.

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The American Indian and Indigenous Cultural Resource Center (AIICRC) promotes cultural identity development and strives to empower indigenous students through their college careers. By providing resources, activities that build and enhance leadership skills, educational events and ongoing development of the space, we encourage the sharing of ideas and experiences, which imparts a greater understanding of our culture(s) to one another and the campus community. Through collaboration and networking; students, staff, faculty, and community learn from one another important aspects of our culture(s).

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Get added to the American Indian and Indigenouse Cultural Resource Center's email distribution list to receive community event updates, campus resources, and our campus partners' programming relevant to our center and its allies!

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The purpose of AIISA is to provide a social, activist, nurturing, academic, and community space at UCSB and in the community for American Indian, Alaskan Native, Native Hawaiian, and Indigenous individuals. The American Indian and Indigenous Student Association approach this with a mindfulness of the existing and changing conditions for Indigenous and Native students at the political, social, and university level.

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