Assistant Professors in the Department of Global Studies have each received an award from UCSB's Early Career Faculty Acceleration Program. The Academic Senate is partnering with the Office of the Chancellor and the Office of Research to provide assistance of $7,000 to each Senate faculty member who was an untenured assistant professor during the previous year, and is intended to help advance scholarly activities in the wake of the pandemic. Our Global Studies faculty are grateful for this extra financial support to promote their research initiatives in the coming year.