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Provide access for students, staff, and community colleagues to a first class amateur radio station. Undergraduates are also invited to participate but would not be eligible to serve as officers. This station, with emergency power available, is a resource for communication in case of disasters.

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The amateur radio club provides access to our club radio station (W6RFU) for any licensed amateur (ham) radio operator. Assistance is available to help obtain a license, to learn to operate the equipment, and learn protocols for making contact with other stations. We offer opportunities frequently to participate in contests where many can take shifts to operate. We also schedule occasional meetings with subjects of general interest.
UCSB has hosted this call sign as a club call since 1940 making us one of if not the oldest campus organization. We now have an additional call sign used for radio contests: N6RA. This belonged to a community member who was very generous and helped our club to be what it is today.

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The organization's purpose is to promote the cultural, social, political, and intellectual development of American Indian and Indigenous Peoples.

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Academic, Social and community activities and service opportunities with on and off campus Native communities

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To support the academic and professional careers of graduate students in the Department of Anthropology and to foster community-building to improve the mental and physical well-being of the organization’s cohort.

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To assure continuous representation of graduate students within the Department of the History of Art and Architecture. It does this by operating as a forum for the organized discussion and representation of graduate student opinions on matters affecting the graduate community and as a means whereby students can elect representatives to attend faculty meetings and serve on student-faculty committees. AHGSA also works to enhance faculty-student interaction and the social and intellectual interactions among graduate students.

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The Asian Pacific Islander Graduate Student Alliance at UC Santa Barbara is an organization that strives to create and maintain spaces of support for graduate students of Asian panethnicity, while advocating for a more critically accurate representation of Asian American students.

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The Black Graduate Student Association at UCSB provides social resources and academic support to meet the needs of Black graduate students. We are committed to mentorship, research, and service while also focusing on an inclusive environment where all students at UCSB can thrive.

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Social —Along with our biweekly general body meetings, we plan other social outings as a chance to connect and have fun.

Academic — Events like Celebrating Black Scholarship highlight the different kinds of research Black students are doing.

Advocacy — We are here to advocate in support of individual students and the Black community as a whole at UCSB.

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The purpose of BSC is to connect the Bren graduate students to sustainability events and groups in the greater UCSB and Santa Barbara Community.

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Our mission is to organize and put on the EEMB Graduate Student Symposium, showcasing graduate student research in the EEMB department.

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The organization’s purpose is to promote the social health and professional growth of the electrical engineering graduate student community at UCSB.

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GradGuide aims to provide mentorship to undergraduate students in STEM on UCSB campus who are interested in applying to graduate school.

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As a body of student representatives, the GSAE consists of elected officers as well as the general student population. Decisions are made by consensus, with all members having a voice in decision making. The purpose of the association is to promote student participation in a manner that serves and supports the individual needs of students. Some of the responsibilities of GSAE are to relay campus information to new and continuing students and create opportunities for structured conversations around important topics. To this end, GSAE forwards information about community events and social organizing to new and continuing students. Importantly, GSAE works to build community amongst students, staff, and faculty.

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Allow graduate students to explore careers in consulting and prepare for a career by reading and analyzing case studies.

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GUMBI is a student initiated and run organization that represents the graduate students from the department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology (MCDB) and the Biomolecular Science and Engineering (BMSE) program. GUMBI serves the needs of students on a variety of academic issues and provides social and networking opportunities throughout their graduate careers, and is an official organization of the Office of Student Life (OSL).

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HGSA's purpose is to provide a sense of community and a foundation for academic support to graduate students working in the Department of History. HGSA sponsors social events that bring graduate students from different stages of their academic career together, as well as professional development workshops that draw on the advice and experience of faculty members and recent graduates. By facilitating these events, HGSA seeks to promote active communication at every level of our department, inside and outside the classroom.

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This is a non-partisan, non-sectarian, voluntary student organization serving the interests of the Iranian graduate students and post-doctoral researchers/lecturers at UCSB. The objectives of this organization to sponsor social activities for the Iranian student community, to promote appreciation of Iranian culture on campus, to help foster friendship among different cultural groups, to coordinate resources with other Iranian student-led organizations across California college campuses and to a serve the needs and interests of Iranian students and post-doctoral researchers/lecturers and their dependents at the University of California at Santa Barbara. We also wish to act as a hub for the local Iranian community programming in Santa Barbara for the sake of sponsoring more engagement between the Iranian international student and Iranian-American communities.

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Priority registration at community events along with dependents.
Priority registration for larger events our organization hosts with Iranian Students of California.
Have a say on the charge and purpose of the organization.
Remain up to date about opportunities for professional development and community organizing.

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The mission of making and maker educators (M&M) is to provide a support system for all STEM educators in outreach efforts. We will promote excellence in STEM education throughout the community.

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The Materials Student Organization is a graduate student led organization focused on promoting social cohesion within the department, providing professional development opportunities for students, and working to advocate on behalf of all students within the Materials department at UCSB. In addition, the MSA aims to foster a welcoming, healthy, and diverse community at all levels within the department.

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The Media Fields research collective formed at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2007 to advance scholarship in media studies on the spatial aspects of a range of media forms, including film, television, radio, and digital media. "Media Fields" encompasses research on representations of space in media, as well as on spatial and environmental characteristics of media forms and practices. We are interested in critical investigations of the many other dimensions of the term "field," such as its methodological, disciplinary, and epistemological configurations.

Media Fields Journal is a platform for the dissemination of current research on the spatial dimensions of media, opening up new critical directions that account for the changing roles that different media forms play in the world today. "Media Fields" is a conceptual catalyst for rethinking relationships between national, transnational, and global boundaries and flows; language, leisure, and law; theory and practice; space and time; place and space; networks and infrastructures; and the many complicated ways in which various media forms cross paths. Drawing on the unique qualities of an online format, the journal is public and open-access, inviting and soliciting submissions from researchers, practitioners, and artists from various fields. It will distribute short- to medium-length scholarly essays on timely and provocative themes, and it will include works that are not typically found in traditional academic print journals, such as photo essays and audio interviews. The journal’s aim is to circulate research on media and space, to function as a testing ground for new disciplinary trajectories, and to facilitate conversations that advance space, spatiality, and critical practice as crucial topics in the field of media studies.

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SACNAS is an inclusive organization dedicated to fostering the success of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans, from college students to professionals, in attaining advanced degrees, careers, and positions of leadership in STEM.

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Encourage student engagement in the mathematical sciences, promote interdisciplinary networking and further the applications of mathematics in industry and science.

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