UCSB's Graduate Division
Receives Interdisciplinary Learning Grant Bren faculty helps UCSB secure funding to enhance interdisciplinary research and teaching program February 8, 2017 A team of UC Santa Barbara (UCSB) educators, including Graduate Division associate dean and Bren School professor Bruce Kendall and Bren School dean, Steve Gaines, played instrumental roles in securing a National Science Foundation (NSF) Research Traineeship award for UCSB this past September.
In fact, they intended to only choose one or two, but
received so many wonderful applications that they extended it to three students: Zoe Blatt, who creates large - scale knitted soft sculpture; Brendon Snyder, who's working on a graphic novel about the theory of Multiple Intelligences; and Azucena Verdin, who focuses on a dance performance exploring
interdisciplinary learning.