Graduate StudentResource Center

The Graduate Division is excited to announce a new addition to the Graduate Student Resource Center! Hannah Lawrence, the new Assistant Director of Professional Development, recently moved to Santa Barbara from Boston after working in nonprofit program management for the last four years. Read on to find out more about Hannah!

The Graduate Division is excited to welcome our new ​​Diversity Peer Advisor, ​​Sam del Castillo. ​They will be working with staff and students all across campus to make UCSB's graduate student body even more diverse, representative, and ​supportive. Read on to find out more about ​​Sam!

​Be sure to check out upcoming workshops from the Graduate Student Resource Center. From financial literacy, to improv skills for interviewing, to plenty of opportunities to build connections across campus – we hope you'll join us for ​our lineup of ​​Fall 2019 programming. ​Mark your calendars and visit the Events page for updated information as events get closer.

Our final featured student, Aizhan Adilkhan, is moving to Santa Barbara from Kazakhstan with her two children. Read on to learn more about ​her research and some of her plans for when she arrives at UCSB!

Steven Gomez is coming to UCSB from Los Angeles to pursue his Ph.D. in Materials. Read on to hear about Steven's path to UCSB and see a meme he published in an academic journal!

Aisha Anwar is an incoming Ph.D. student in English from North Carolina. She received her undergraduate degree from UNC, where she studied English Literature and Global Studies. Read on to learn more about ​​Aisha's journey in North Carolina and her business she created from a hobby!

Valdis Jansons has been busy since he received his BA and MA degrees in classical singing in Parma, Italy. He has traveled all over the world as a professional singer and has sung in over 10 languages! Valdis is coming to UCSB to pursue a Ph.D. in Music.

Grad school marks the next chapter in Tannishtha Bhattacharjee's adventure. She is coming to UCSB from Delhi, India, where she received her BA, MA, and MPhil in History. She is very excited to ​come to UCSB and continue her work in the History Department and inspire UCSB fashion.

Next up in our 2019 Incoming Grad Series is Matthew Devlin, who is coming to UCSB from the L'Oreál USA research headquarters in New Jersey to pursue a Ph.D. in ​​Mechanical Engineering. Read on to learn more about ​Matthew's ​background, research interests, and his extensive knowledge of mascara!

The 2019 Incoming Grad Series continues with Kirstin Rollins, an incoming PhD student in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology from Washington State. Learn more about ​Kirstin's research interests and her plethora of fun facts!

First up in our 2019 Incoming Grad Series is Kristian Vásquez, who is entering the Ph.D. program in Chicana/o Studies. Learn more about how Kristian developed his research interests as well as his interests outside of school – including moshing!

UC Santa Barbara welcomes 852 new graduate students ​to campus ​at the end of this month. This group of grad students is the most diverse incoming cohort in UCSB history! We break down ​some statistics on ​this great group and give you a sneak peek at our upcoming series profiling eight of our new student​s.

The Graduate Student Resource Center recently published a list writing support services offered by the Graduate Division and another list of editors for hire as a third party to connect students with potential editors for various writing projects. Read on for more info about these services and how to take advantage of them.

The Graduate Division is excited to welcome our new ​Funding Peer Advisor, ​Kaitlyn Ugoretz. Kaitlyn will work to help graduate students search for funding opportunities and improve their financial literacy. Read on to find out more about ​​Kaitlyn!

The Graduate Division is pleased to announce the ​winners of two awards ​honoring graduate students who have distinguished themselves in the area of undergraduate research supervision: Thomas (Alex) Johnson, Eric Jones, Nicholas Sherck, Monica Cornejo, Avi McClelland-Cohen, and Mallory Melton. Read on to find out more about our awardees!

The Graduate Division, in partnership with the Division of Student Affairs, is excited to welcome our new International Graduate Student Peer Advisor, ​Julia McClenon. Julia will work to welcome and support the success of UCSB’s international graduate students. Read on to find out more about ​Julia!

The Graduate Student Resource Center and Career Services are excited to welcome a new Graduate Career Peer Advisor, Vash Doshi. ​​Vash is currently pursuing his PhD in Political Science with a focus on International Relations and Political Economy. Read on to learn more about ​Vash!

Attention international students: the Graduate Division has recently communicated about changes to policy implementation around the quarterly non-resident supplemental tuition (NRST) fee. This will now be linked to registered quarters rather than calendar years. Read on for more info and FAQs.

The UCSB Graduate Division is currently accepting applications for its Funding Peer Advisor position to begin employment in Summer 2019. The Funding Peer educates and advises UCSB’s graduate students about internal and external funding opportunities as well as personal finance matters. The position runs through the 2019-20 academic year and is renewable for subsequent years. Priority consideration will be given to applications received by Friday, July 12.

Be sure to check out upcoming events and workshops from the Graduate Student Resource Center. From learning about academic job market writing, to updating your resume, to hearing from your fellow grad students at a Lunch & Learn, we hope you'll join us for ​our lineup of ​summer programming.