A snapshot of University of California programs and services in your district It starts here
Congressional District 23 — Lois Capps (D) UC alumni in this district: 21,254
UC Santa Barbara employees: 9,100
UC in Your District
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goes well beyond its 10 campuses,
five medical centers and three
national laboratories. The
University’s presence is felt in each
of California’s 58 counties through
a wide array of exemplary
community partnerships, enriching
cultural resources and innovative
research programs. From health-
care education for rural physicians
to agricultural research advice for
local farmers to college preparation
efforts in nearly every public
school, UC has a direct influence
in your community. Find out more
about UC programs in your district
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UC SANTA BARBARA
UC SANTA BARBARA NATURAL CALIFORNIA NANOSYSTEMS
UC Santa Barbara has more than 9,100 RESERVES INSTITUTE (CNSI)
employees and is the largest employer in UC administers natural reserve sites that
Santa Barbara County. UC Santa Barbara’s CNSI will facilitate a public/private
protect unique local environments, approach to developing the information,
annual economic impact is over $239 serve as invaluable research
million. Alumni and faculty members of the biomedical, and manufacturing
laboratories and educate the public. UC technologies that will dominate science
College of Engineering have started nearly Santa Barbara Reserves include the
100 high-tech companies, about half of and the economy in the 21st century. The
Carpinteria Salt Marsh Reserve, which Institute will provide a world-class intellectual
them located on California's Central Coast. protects an important local estuary, and the
UC Santa Barbara includes a School of and physical environment that supports
Santa Cruz Island Reserve, which collaboration among California's university,
Environmental Science Management and a protects the breeding grounds of harbor
Graduate School of Education. The more than industry and national laboratory scientists.
seals and the threatened island fox. Both The Institute will be housed at UCLA and UC
16,000 UC alumni in the area provide a reserves host a range of public education
highly skilled workforce for the region’s Santa Barbara and will include corporate-
and outreach programs for local K-12 sponsored incubator labs.
growing technology sector. schools and the larger community.
A snapshot of University of California programs and services in your district It starts here
Congressional District 23 – Lois Capps (D) UC alumni in this district: 21, 254
UC’s MESA (Mathematics, UC Davis’s Oiled Wildlife Care Network strives to ensure that
Engineering & Science wildlife exposed to petroleum products in the environment
Achievement) works to receive treatment. The project’s services are offered on both the
prepare educationally UC Santa Barbara campus and at the Santa Barbara
disadvantaged students for Wildlife Care Network. www.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/owcn
four-year colleges. The
program is at work at La UC Riverside’s CE-CERT program contributes to improved
Cumbre Middle School, environmental quality and energy efficiency through
Santa Barbara Junior High, interdisciplinary research and by providing educational
Ventura Community College opportunities for the next generation of engineers, scientists
and Santa Barbara Senior High. http://mesa.ucop.edu and policymakers in Southern California.
http://www.cert.ucr.edu
UCLA Regional Oncology Centers, affiliated with the world-
renowned UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, UC’s Early
provide comprehensive cancer care services and investigative Academic Outreach
clinical trials at a site in Santa Barbara. Patients who come to Program (EAOP)
UCLA centers for cancer care benefit from the most advanced provides academic
forms of therapy available, and from a variety of supportive support, college
services. Regional centers also allow easier access to cancer counseling and skill-
care services and investigative clinical trials. building workshops to
http://cancer.mednet.ucla.edu/clinical help over 85,000
California students
The Veterans Affairs realize their dreams
Healthcare System is of a college
an affiliate of the UCLA education. EAOP works with several K-12 schools in District
Medical Center and 23. http://eaop.org
provides a full range of
medical care to UC’s Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources
veterans in the region. provides comprehensive agricultural research information for
The system houses a local growers, ranchers, governments and the larger community
teaching hospital and through county advisors at the San Luis Obispo, Ventura and
provides patient care Santa Barbara County offices. http://www.ucanr.org
services using state-of-the-art technology. Outpatient clinics
are located in Santa Barbara, Ventura and Oxnard. UC Santa Barbara’s
http://www.va.gov Sedgwick Reserve in
rd
the 23
The UC Santa Barbara Women's Center serves as a Congressional District
community and campus resource to expand educational, is an invaluable
professional, and personal opportunities for women. The center research site and
also houses the Rape and Sexual Harassment Prevention coordinates a variety of
Education Programs (RPEP), which offer follow-up medical public outreach
and legal information, counseling and support services for programs. One
sexual assault victims. program for fifth and
sixth grade students,
UC Santa "Kids in Nature," combines hands-on learning at the UC Santa
Barbara’s Coal Oil Barbara Museum of Systematics and Ecology with visits to the
Point Natural reserve for experiences in botany, habitat restoration,
Reserve in the 23rd sketching, photography, and computer technology.
Congressional is http://nrs.ucop.edu
one of the best
remaining examples
of a preserved For a complete listing of UC programs in your district, access
coastal-strand our on-line database at: www.universityofcalifornia.edu
environment in
Southern California. Located adjacent to the Santa Barbara
campus, the reserve provides a unique and accessible research
and teaching resource which is used in UC research and
teaching. http://nrs.ucop.edu
UC Santa Barbara Isla Vista Mediation Program is a low-
cost, sliding scale mediation service for all University and Isla
Vista community members. http://www.sa.ucsb.edu/guide