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Gene & Susan Lucas Undergraduate Research Fund

Lucas Undergraduate Research Fund

The Gene and Susan Lucas Undergraduate Research Fund was created to help first-generation undergraduate students experience research alongside UCSB faculty.

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Kennedy/Graves Award A Legacy of Activism

Kennedy/Graves Award

Shirley Graves Kennedy arrived in Santa Barbara in 1970 where she found a small, marginalized African American community and other people of color who faced job and housing discrimination, exclusion from the arts, and unfair treatment in the school system.

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To recognize Claudine Michel’s numerous local and international efforts to champion.

Claudine Michel Fund

After more than three decades of service to UC Santa Barbara, Associate Vice Chancellor, Black Studies Professor, activist, colleague, and friend, Dr. Claudine Michel is now officially an "emerita"!

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