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The Grad Slam semifinals continue with round 2 on Tuesday, April 18. Join us at 3 p.m. in the SRB Multipurpose Room and cheer on your fellow graduate students as they vie for a spot in the final round!

The 5th Annual Grad Slam competition continues with three semifinal rounds this week, leading up to the ultimate final round on Friday, April 21. Join us for the first semifinal round on Monday, April 17, and watch your fellow graduate students explain their research in 3 minutes or less.

The 5th Annual Grad Slam competition prelims come to a close with the final round 9 on Friday, April 14. Vote for your favorites to advance to the semifinal round with the People's Choice Award.

The 5th Annual Grad Slam competition nears the final rounds of the preliminary stage with rounds 7 and 8 on Thursday, April 13. Vote for your favorites to advance to the semifinal round with the People's Choice Award.

The 5th Annual Grad Slam competition continues with prelim rounds 5 and 6 on Wednesday, April 12. Vote for your favorites to advance to the semifinal round with the People's Choice Award.

The 5th Annual Grad Slam continues with prelim rounds 3 and 4. Remember to get out the vote to help your favorite presenters advance to the semifinal rounds! Check out a preview of the presentations here.

The 5th Annual Grad Slam kicks off Monday, April 10! Come out to the first two preliminary rounds, where your People's Choice vote can help your favorites advance to the semifinal rounds. Check out a preview of the presentations here.

Jump-start your career on May 5-6! The annual Beyond Academia conference aims to prepare UCSB graduate students and postdoctoral researchers in all stages and disciplines to pursue a wide range of career options. Registration is now open, but space is limited, so sign up today!

The 5th Annual Grad Slam competition starts in just one week! Each preliminary round features a People's Choice component, where audience members select their favorite presenter to advance to the next round, so be sure to come out and support your colleagues.

We sat down with Rosie Bermudez to discuss how her personal experience inspired her research on activist Alicia Escalante, the importance of diversity in graduate education, and what she hopes to accomplish after receiving her Ph.D.

We caught up with Molly Clementz to find out what she thinks about​ portraying wild characters during her second time on the Opera Santa Barbara stage, her graduate school experience here at UCSB, and what inspires her love of opera.

David McIntosh – History Ph.D. student, Graduate Student Association President, and Humanities Without Walls Fellow – sat down to tell us about his career journey from computer nerd to historian, why he chose UCSB, and how Mr. Spock gave him words to live by.

Meet Maria D. Vazquez, a Graduate Scholar and second-year Ph.D. student in the Counseling, Clinical, and School Psychology program. Read on to learn more about her upbringing, her research, and some words of wisdom on how she is surviving graduate school.

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.