International Education Week (IEW) will take place November 14-18, 2022. IEW is a cross-campus collaboration that highlights UCSB's international engagement through cultural programming, festivities and student events.
Never-Before-Seen: Details of an Early Universe
Monday, November 14 | 4-5:30 pm
Campbell Hall
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The James Webb Space Telescope was launched on 25 December 2021, having been developed by NASA in partnership with the European and Canadian Space Agencies. It is the largest space telescope ever constructed, and will extend humanity’s view of the universe into the infrared spectrum thus revealing how our galaxies and structure have evolved over cosmic time. It will also search exoplanet atmospheres for evidence of life. In this multi-media presentation I will also discuss possible future work to be undertaken by the JWST Project Team.
Dr. Matthew Greenhouse is Project Scientist for the Webb science instrument payload. He has served on several NASA and European Space Agency (ESA) flight mission teams, and is a member of the NASA Astrophysics Working Group. He supports ground-based astronomy in many ways, including with the National Science Foundation Committee of Visitors. He is the recipient of more than 20 individual performance awards such as the NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal and the Robert H. Goddard award for Exceptional Achievement in Science.
Inaugural Scholar Rescue Fund Fellow Lecture & Reception with Professor Elisabeth Ayuk-Etang
Stories from Cameroon's Civil War: Women Exposing Environmental Impacts
Tuesday, November 15 | 4-6 pm
Henley Hall 1010
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The brunt of the Civil War in Cameroon is experienced by women and has a deep impact on the environment. This presentation draws on the socio-economic, cultural and ecological context of ecofeminism in English speaking Cameroon, a polity with a unique pre-colonial, colonial and post-colonial experience. Professor Elisabeth Ayuk-Etang argues that each phase of Cameroonian history impacts women–nature relations in its own unique way.
As part of International Education Week, Global Engagement welcomes Professor Elisabeth Ayuk-Etang, the Scholar Rescue Fund (SRF) Fellow at UC Santa Barbara for 2022-2023. Dr. Ayuk-Etang is the recipient of the Janet Hennessey Dilenschneider Scholar Rescue Award in the Arts. The Scholar Rescue Fund (SRF) offers temporary fellowships to help support scholars whose lives or careers are threatened. Dr. Ayuk-Etang has joined us from the University of Buea Cameroon, where she is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of English.