Graduate StudentResource Center

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center is currently accepting applications for the CPRIT TRIUMPH Postdoctoral Fellowship in Translational Cancer Research. This three-year fellowship aims to further develop talented PhD or MD/PhDs into successful clinical/translational research scientists. Remaining 2018 application due dates are September 30 and December 31.

The Interdisciplinary Humanities Center seeks graduate and undergraduate students who are fluent in Spanish to serve as interpreters at elementary schools during the schools’ fall parent-teacher conferences. Application deadline is October 8, 2018.

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) will be hosting a virtual information session on August 23 to discuss why NGA is a great place to work, how you may be a fit, and provide you with guidance about the application process and application tips!

Share your research to win a trip to Berlin, Germany! The Falling Walls Lab Stanford is calling grad students, post-docs, and other young professionals from all fields to present their research project, business plan, or social initiative in just three minutes. Application deadline is September 9, 2018.

Looking to transition to a career in fields like data science, data engineering, or artificial intelligence? Apply to become an Insight Fellow! The Insight Data Fellows Programs are tuition-free fellowships for graduating students, PhDs, and postdocs. The fall application deadline for Insight’s Fellowships is quickly approaching on August 20.

Do you have a vision to make your community better? Or an idea to further develop your leadership potential? Apply to be a Bush Fellow and receive a flexible grant of up to $100,000! Bush Fellows may use the grant to pursue a self-designed leadership development plan or to start/complete a degree-seeking program. Deadline is August 30, 2018.

The Interdisciplinary Humanities Center is now accepting applications from graduate students interested in attending the Humanities Without Walls Summer 2019 Workshop. During this three-week, in-residence summer workshop, participants will learn how to leverage their skills and training towards careers in a variety of fields. Deadline is Sept. 30, 2018.

Are you tech-savvy and service-oriented? Apply to work with Collaborate! Collaborate develops and launches key projects to significantly enhance technology services on the UCSB campus, and is currently seeking graduate student instructional design assistants to work 50%-time (with fee remission) or 25%-time (no fee remission). Read on to learn more!

City of Hope's 2nd Annual Graduate Student Symposium for Biomedical Research provides various professional development opportunities for attendees. Organizers encourage PhD students to present their current research, and lunch is included with registration along with a networking hour. Abstracts of 500 words or less can be submitted online and are due August 3.

Are you in the middle stages of your dissertation and running into roadblocks? Do you need some new strategies and habits to help you finish up? Then apply for the second session of the 2018 Dissertation Write-In! Application deadline is Monday, August 6.

Apply now to be a teaching assistant for the English Department! Positions are open in a variety of classes in Fall 2018, Winter 2019, and Spring 2019. The application deadline is July 26.

Attention international graduate students! Do you know about the International Doctoral Recruitment Fellowship (IDRF)? Since its inception in 2015, the IDRF has been automatically awarded to international PhD students at the start of their fourth quarter, and covers out-of-state tuition costs. Read on for more information!

Calling California grad students and postdocs! The California Council on Science and Technology (CCST) is seeking scientists and engineers in training for the CCST Climate Science Translators Showcase, held in conjunction with the Global Climate Action Summit hosted by Governor Jerry Brown in San Francisco in September 2018. Application deadline is July 29.

Interested in interviewing with the Dow Chemical Company? Dow is planning to hire a significant number of students and postdocs this year for various positions in the areas of engineering sciences, material science, organic chemistry, inorganic chemistry, polymer chemistry, catalysis, computational chemistry and analytical sciences. Read on to learn more! Application deadline is July 20th.

The History of Art & Architecture Department is calling for applications for open TA positions. Applicants must be registered UCSB graduate students. Appointments are available at 50% or 75%. Find out more today!

UC Davis Global Affairs is currently seeking abstract submissions from graduate students throughout the world as part of the 2018 International Research Conference at UC Davis. It is a unique opportunity for graduate students to share their research with international thought leaders. The deadline for submission has been extended to July 16, 2018.

Summer is here and that means the Graduate Simulation Seminar Series (GS^3) is back! The Center for Scientific Computing is offering a 10-12 week set of seminars over the summer, during which researchers from different departments at UCSB present on their simulation-based research or lead workshops on cutting-edge computational techniques. Read more here!

Are you preparing to go on the academic job market this year and want to get started on your materials? Do you need help creating application documents that fit the conventions of your discipline and also highlight your unique qualifications? Join us for our summer Academic Job Market Writing Workshop Series with Graduate Writing Specialist Robby Nadler!

In an effort to provide better accommodations for graduate student parents, the Graduate Division has updated our existing time-to-degree policy for parenting demands. The eligibility language has been clarified and the policy has been extended to master’s students as well.

NantBioScience is hiring for a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Scientific Communications that will provide PhDs in the biomedical sciences with comprehensive training in professional medical writing in the biopharma industry.