UCSB — The Current — ‘Embracing single life: Love, intimacy and family beyond the couple’ and more news, events
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Using survey data from more than 20,000 people from over 100 countries, and drawing from research by other social scientists, Bella DePaulo shows that those who embrace single life grow happier over time and are better situated to navigate old age than those who built their lives around romantic relationships.
The Theater and Dance program LAUNCH PAD opens curtain on a preview production of “Everybody’s Favorite Mothers,” the new work by award-winning playwright James Still, described as “a theatrical celebration of unconditional love and unlikely activism.”
Operating in more than 40 countries, and with related opportunities in Washington D.C. and Sacramento, the Education Abroad Program advances a global mindset and shows students “how the world works beyond Santa Barbara.”
The Resource Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity invites LGBTQIA+ students, staff and faculty to share their lived experiences through the art form and medium that calls to them.
UCSB Chicano Studies professor Mario T. García, who worked alongside Leal to create the award 19 years ago, said that Arellano’s work — both at the O.C. Weekly and the L.A. Times — has continued Leal’s legacy by giving the art of column writing the same weight as literary essays and novels.
