Chancellor's Associates Scholars Program

e-Newsletter | October 2021

Thank you to our community partners at Cal Coast Credit Union for their support of CASP 101! Many thanks for providing financial wellness and financial literacy information and resources for our students, and our campus community. 

Click here to view our CalCoast Corner.

Los Angeles-based, Grammy-winning, Mexican-American rock band La Santa Cecilia draws inspiration from all over the world utilizing Pan-American rhythms including cumbia, bossa-nova, rumba, bolero, tango, R&B, jazz, and klezmer music. Named after the patron saint of music, La Santa Cecilia sings with a captivating voice about love, loss, and everyday struggles in both English and Spanish. The band has become the voice of a new bicultural generation in the US and Mexico, fully immersed in modern music, but always close to their Latin American influences and Mexican heritage.

Started in 2007 by lead singer Marisol “La Marisoul” Hernandez, accordionist/requinto player Jose ‘Pepe’ Carlos, percussionist Miguel ‘Oso’ Ramirez, and bassist Alex Bendaña, La Santa Cecilia have performed at just about every type of venue from rock clubs to festivals, including Walt Disney Hall and the Hollywood Bowl in LA.

The group won a Grammy for ‘Best Latin Rock, Urban, Alternative’ Album in 2014 for their album Treinta Días. They were nominated in the same category for their album Benuaventura in 2017 and for Amar Y Vivir in 2018 (all on Rebeleon/Universal Music). With 7 albums under their belt, La Santa Cecilia are currently at work on their 8th album, to be released in 2020.



La Santa Cecilia exemplifies the modern-day creative hybrid of Latin culture, rock, and word music. Their unique sounds and the experience of their colorful, passionate performances captivate both loyal fans and new listeners. They perform over 100 shows a year, have collaborated with artists ranging from Elvis Costello to John Paul Jones, and their music has been featured in movies (Coco, The Book of Life) and television series (Weeds, Entourage*, The Bridge*, and was the theme song for the Netflix series Ingobernable). In 2019, La Marisoul performed at the Joni Mitchell At 75 tribute, in March with the LA Philharmonic at The Work and Music of Yoko Ono tribute concert (both at the Hollywood Bowl), and in November, the group was one of the headliners at Tropicalia festival in LA. La Santa Cecilia released their critically acclaimed 7th album self-titled La Santa Cecilia on October 18, 2019 (Universal/Rebeleon).

The Faculty Mentor Program in partnership with the Department of Emergency Medicine is currently accepting applications for the FMP Emergency Medicine Program. If you know undergraduate students with sophomore standing or above who are interested in:

1. Having direct one-on-one patient interaction in the Emergency Department.
2. Working closely with Emergency Department physicians and nurses on various clinical research projects.
3. Securing letters of recommendation for medical school or graduate studies.
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5. Receiving independent student credit (199) through the School of Medicine.
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Please encourage them to apply to the FMP Emergency Medicine Research Program. The application deadline is October 17.

I will be having a virtual info session on October 8, 9:30 - 10:00 AM PT. Students can register using this link.

*Transfer and international students are encouraged to apply.

UCSD's Student Veteran Resource Center is hiring! 

If you are interested in being a Transfer Student Success Liaison, a Peer Navigator, or Center Ops, please submit an application by October 15, 2021. 

Click here to learn more!

Join us for the Triton Tailgate Concert, featuring live and virtual entertainment, great music, food and games. We’ll turn it up for our special featured guest, Ozomatli—a 6-piece Grammy award-winning band, who will bring the energy with their unique blend of Latin, hip hop, jazz and rock. We invite you to stretch out, eat, play and maybe even dance it up with fellow Tritons. It’s the perfect time to reconnect with friends and enjoy a night of Triton fun.

The evening’s festivities will offer lawn games the whole family can enjoy, including ladder ball, cornhole and bocce ball, just to name a few. If you’re a foodie, we’ve got you covered with food truck cuisine offering taste sensations to suit every palate, plus beverages from alumni-owned Protector Brewery. And we’ll be sure to keep the beats going with entertainment from festival DJ, Ryan “Shneaky” Perez '16.

We’ll also recognize the 2021 Family of the Year Award recipients and our inaugural Homecoming Grand Marshal, Judy Sweet, former UC San Diego Athletics Director, 1975-2000.



Prior to the Tailgate, be sure to rev up your Triton spirit for UC San Diego Men’s Soccer, as their first NCAA Division I season reaches fever pitch! Cheer them on as they square off against Big West Conference foe CSU Bakersfield for a finale game on home turf.

Join in our commemoration of Latinx Heritage Month—featuring film screenings, art

exhibits, musical performances and more—through October! Check out the series of free

campus events at latinxheritagemonth.ucsd.edu.

The Ford Foundation is now accepting applications for its pre-doctoral fellowship program, which provides awardees with an annual stipend of $27,000 for three years beginning during the fall of 2022. In addition to financial support, this fellowship opportunity provides awardees with a wide range of resources, a support network, and presentation opportunities at its annual gathering. Note: This fellowship is open to “individuals with current status under the DACA Program, as well as individuals whose status may have lapsed but who continue to meet all the USCIS guidelines for DACA.”

Here are the eligibility requirements:

• “All U.S. citizens, U.S. nationals, and U.S. permanent residents (holders of a Permanent Resident Card); individuals granted deferred action status under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program;¹ Indigenous individuals exercising rights associated with the Jay Treaty of 1794; political asylees; and refugees, regardless of race, national origin, religion, gender, age, disability, or sexual orientation;
• Individuals with evidence of superior academic achievement (such as grade point average, class rank, honors, or other designations);
• Individuals committed to a career in teaching and research at the college or university level in the U.S.;
• Individuals enrolled in or planning to enroll in an eligible research-based (dissertation-required) program leading to a Ph.D. or Sc.D. degree at a non-proprietary (not for profit) U.S. institution of higher education no later than Fall 2022;
• Individuals who as of the 2022 fall semester require a minimum of three years of study² to complete their Ph.D. or Sc.D. degree; and
• Individuals who have not earned a doctoral degree at any time, in any field.”

The deadline to apply is December 16, 2021 at 5pm EST.

For more information and ti apply, please visit their website: https://sites.nationalacademies.org/PGA/FordFellowships/PGA_171962

Take Your First Steps!

Before meeting with an advisor, it is important that you learn the basics of studying abroad at UC San Diego.

• Watch our First Steps Quick Videos outlining how to study abroad at UC San Diego.
• When offered, you can also attend an in-person information session offered at the Study Abroad Office.
• Remember! It is important that you complete your First Steps before meeting with an advisor to help you gain an overview of study abroad at UC San Diego and make your advising appointment go smoothly.
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Click here to visit Study Abroad First Steps website!

Comcast will be staring off this school year by expanding eligibility for the Internet Essentials program to all Federal Pell Grant recipients across its service area. This expansion will allow nearly one million additional low-income students to benefit from Internet Essentials, Comcast's signature broadband adoption and digital equity initiative.

Starting August 23, 2021, students receiving a Federal Pell Grant, can use their Financial Aid Award Letter as proof of eligibility for Internet Essentials. Expanding Internet Essentials eligibility to include Federal Pell Grant recipients brings eligibility more fully in-line with the federal government's Emergency Broadband Benefit (EBB) eligibility, but is a permanent, structural change to the eligibility for the program.

So, students can rest assured that they will be able to either have Internet service for free under EBB or for a heavily discounted price of just $9.95/month.

Click here to learn more about Comcast Internet Essentials Program.

This month, we'll be giving away five CASP backpacks and CASP water bottles to our newsletter readers! You must be a currently registered UCSD undergraduate student to win (open to all students, not just CASP!). 

Send us an email to casp@ucsd.edu with the subject line "CASP Newsletter Winner" that includes your name and PID and answer the following questions:

"CASP is part of Student Retention & Success (SRS). What other campus departments are part of SRS?" (Hint: Check out the SRS website at https://srs.ucsd.edu/)

We'll send you a confirmation email letting you know if you're one of this month's contest winners and more information on how to claim your prize. Good luck!

The Return to Learn Program is a voluntary student program that screens for active SARS-CoV-2 virus, the virus that causes COVID-19 disease. If you choose to participate, you will be helping potentially reduce the risks of COVID-19 outbreaks and making our UC San Diego community a healthier place. 

In this initial phase, in May 2020, SARS-CoV-2 testing was be made available to resident undergraduate and graduate students currently residing on campus. Participation is voluntary, but all eligible students are encouraged to participate, and there will be no cost to the students who choose to participate. 

The Return to Learn Program is for asymptomatic student volunteers only. If you are having COVID-19 symptoms (shortness of breath, cough, fever, chills, loss of smell or taste), please call Student Health Services at 858-534-3300.

At this time UC San Diego is not able to accommodate students who do not reside in on-campus housing, nor families of students who may also live on campus. They hope to expand testing in the future so that we can accommodate many more groups.

Visit the website for more information.

Living on campus and looking for a quiet place to study?

• Price Center. Biomedical Library Building (BLB), and Geisel has study spaces available to you for two-hour increments. Just make sure to create an account and then you can log in anytime and secure a quiet space to study. Click here for more information on how to make a reservation.

"My Undocumented Life," a web page with up-to-date information & resources for undocumented immigrants, have compiled a list of resources and news that can help undocumented and mixed-status families during the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic. 

Click here to access their list of resources.

They will update this page frequently so be sure to bookmark it and share it with your networks!

 The Playground is a space where students and the UC San Diego community can get active, creative, meditative, and stay fit through online classes, informative articles, and virtual Rec programming.

Recreation Online will bring you to the vast library of prerecorded content from Rec trainers and instructors that can be accessed anytime. Recreation Live classes will be hosted via Zoom or Facebook/Instagram Live @UCSDrec. A schedule will be updated weekly which will show the date, time, and platform where they can be accessed. Classes will be a mix of fitness, DIY, and fine arts from Rec instructors like guitar and Capoeira.

For more information, visit recreation.ucsd.edu

We're back on campus!

We are so excited to have our physical doors open for our students! We invite folxs to come by, say hello, and use our student study lounge!

Make sure to check out our study lounge guidelines and we hope to see you very soon!

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