Society for The Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics & Native Americans in Science

UCLA CHAPTER

Our mission statement

The Society for the Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS) at UCLA is dedicated to increasing the number of underrepresented students in higher education and in science. We are open to undergraduates, graduate students, transfer students, community college students, post-docs, faculty and staff who share a common concern about equal access to education, who has interest in outreach and/or is in need of opportunities in academic leadership and participation.  
All majors and backgrounds welcome!

Get Involved and Join our Chapter!

If you are a scientist / aspiring scientist that wants to make a difference by exposing students from traditionally underrepresented groups to science, join our award-winning chapter! We can provide YOU with an incredible community of (aspiring) scientists that will help foster an amazing science experience at UCLA by providing mentors, advice regarding academic/professional development, stress-relieving social events, and leadership experiences. Additionally, we need incredible people like you to help us execute the many outreach events we have planned for this year. All students / faculty / staff are welcome to join, regardless of background. ALL ARE WELCOMED! Membership is completely free. 
Become an official SACNAS at UCLA member:
1.  Fill out a Membership form - SCAN QR CODE

2. Come to our virtual meetings and events. You'll get the chance to meet all of our amazing members and have lots of fun! General meetings and event dates/times can be found on the "Events Calendar" page.

3. Optional: Create a mySACNAS profile on the national website. Email your “member ID number” to sacnas@ucla.edu.

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Research Pitch Workshop 
This was a fantastic opportunity to see the diversity of research pitches in fields ranging from Gender Studies, to Psychology, to Engineering. We all learned on how to maximize the pitch to gain audience engagement and how to modify a pitch to the audience. Thank you to our wonderful panelists for sharing your research pitches and tips with our community! 

Winter 2021  SACNAS Board Social 
Our SACNAS @ UCLA Board met up for a virtual social. We all had a lot of fun getting to know and connect with each other! 

A Graduate Student Panel success! 
On January 18th, 2021, SACNAS @ UCLA hosted a Graduate Student Panel! Panelists answered questions that demystified the graduate school application, the interview, and what graduate school is like! Thank you to our panelists for sharing their graduate school experiences! 

Building community with our first general meeting
We held our first General Meeting during Week 2 of Winter 2021. Virtual Game Night tested our SACNAS knowledge through trivia! 

Our first board meeting of the new year! 
Our first board member meeting of 2021!  Welcome our new board members and find out more about them HERE! 

Congrats to our chapter and ameba for being awarded the MBIDP Diversity, Equity and inclusion award! 

Diversity - Outreach - Success

Outreach Suggestion Form

​We are interested in hearing about YOUR ideas to help us create better science modules for our K-12 students! If you have any topic of science that you are interested in turning into an educational science module, please fill out this form below. The idea does NOT need to be fully developed. Feel free to leave your information so we can collaborate on bringing your idea to life and possibly implementing it into our next outreach event. 

None of the questions will be required since your idea does NOT need to be fully developed. Fill out whatever you can! Add videos, images, outlines, or just a topic that you may want to develop into a module. 

You can also simply suggest a K-12 school that you think would benefit from our organization.