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Are you interested in a career in college and university teaching? Do you want to improve your teaching and gain valuable pedagogical insight and training? Then sign up for the ​first-ever course offering from the UCSB Graduate Division!

Don't miss the opportunity to win fame and fortune! The deadline to register for the 2017 Grad Slam competition has been extended until Wednesday, February 15, at 5 p.m.

You’ve been hearing about Grad Slam for weeks now, but what is it really all about? Learn more and head to the sign up page before registration ends today!

Physics doctoral candidate Claire McLellan, who works as a graduate research assistant in Dr. Ania Bleszynski Jayich’s Quantum Sensing and Imaging Group at UCSB, won both the Materials Research Society Graduate Student Gold Award and the Arthur Nowick Graduate Student Award.

The 2017 Grad Slam competition will take place April 10-21. Sign up today for the chance to publicize your research, hone your presentation skills, and win thousands of dollars! Registration closes on Friday, February 10.

Meet Nicole Poletto – Bren student, figure skater extraordinaire, and the Graduate Division's new Professional Development Peer Advisor. Read on to find out more about how she got her start in environmental science, her favorite things about grad school, and her professional goals.

On September 27, the Graduate Division hosted dozens of new graduate students, faculty, and administrators at UCSB’s first-ever Diversity Matters reception, welcoming what has been described as UCSB’s most diverse class of graduate students ever.

Meet the new Graduate Career Peer Erik Martinez! He is a Master's student at the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management and he is here to support his fellow graduate students in their career development.

UC Santa Barbara welcomes ​769 new graduate students into its ranks next ​week, and this group of incoming students is one of our most diverse ever. Here, we break down the statistics on our incoming graduate student cohort and introduce you to several of our new students.

Kali Yamboliev, a doctoral candidate studying medieval Mediterranean history, exemplifies the diversity and achievements of UCSB students. She sat down to talk with us about her upcoming year abroad as a Fulbright Fellow and how she learned to balance work and life in grad school.

For eight weeks this summer, undergraduate scholars from across the country traveled to UCSB to participate in three research programs hosted by the Graduate Division that allowed them to conduct research in their fields of interest under the guidance of a faculty and graduate student mentor.

The National Endowment for the Humanities recently announced that ​UCSB is one of 28 institutions to receive a Next Generation PhD Grant to ​help universities rethink how they prepare doctoral students for career paths outside ​the academy.

Meet the Graduate Division's new Funding Peer, Noreen Balos! Noreen has strong ties to California and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Education at UCSB with a research focus in STEM education. We chatted with Noreen about her research, her passion for students, and the importance of family.

The deadline to apply for this four-day intensive workshop is Monday, July 25. You are eligible to apply if you are a Ph.D. student who has advanced to candidacy, has completed a chapter of your dissertation, and is committed to attending all sessions of the Write-In.

The Graduate Division recently named the winners for two awards for graduate students who have distinguished themselves in the area of undergraduate research supervision.

Are you in the midst of your dissertation and in need of more structure and inspiration? Would you like to make some serious progress on your dissertation this summer? Then consider applying to the 2016 Dissertation Write-In!

The Resource Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity will be hosting a memorial to honor the 49 lives lost in the Orlando tragedy on Monday, June 20, at noon.

The organizing committee is now recruiting graduate students and postdocs to join the team for next year’s conference, where you can have the opportunity to develop transferable skills that are ​valuable to careers both inside and outside of the academy.

Dr. Duncan Mellichamp, Professor Emeritus of the UCSB Department of Chemical Engineering, has been a UC Santa Barbara professor for nearly half a century. He will speak about his career path, and the legacy of UCSB, as the Graduate Division's 2016 keynote Commencement speaker.

If you attended Grad Slam 2016, you already know Sara Weinstein as the Raccoon Girl from her talk about parasite transmission in raccoons. But do you know how she went from chemistry and art to majoring in biology and how her skills in mouse stuffing have helped her career in EEMB?