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The GloCal Health Fellowship provides aspiring global health researchers with interdisciplinary education and training in innovative research designed to improve health for populations around the world. This program supports fellows from all 10 UC campuses as well as 21 affiliated international sites across 17 countries. Applications due Nov 1.

Join a group of graduate students to discuss strategies for equitable teaching and collaboratively workshop your teaching materials! The community of practice (CooP) will meet three times during Fall 2023 and Winter 2024, for a total of six meetings. Apply by September 18.

Applications for this year’s Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy Awards are open! These awards provide small grants to aspiring social science PhD students at the dissertation level to support the research they are undertaking for their project. Applications due December 1.

UC Santa Barbara’s National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) 2023 Artists in Residence Exhibition will take place on Sep. 7 from 5-8pm in downtown Santa Barbara. Read on for more information.

Summer is a great time to kick start your writing! Do you need a productive, quiet environment where you can really get things done? Come write alongside your fellow grad students in the Graduate Writers' Room, featuring comfortable seating, snacks, and the best free coffee on campus! Open Tuesdays 10am-4pm.

The application for the 2024 Christine Mirzayan Science and Technology Policy Graduate Fellowship Program is now open. This program brings graduate students and early-career professionals to the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. The 2024 Fellowship will run from March 4-May 24, 2024. Applications are due October 16, 2023.

CNSI at UCSB is launching the second cohort of the Innovation 360 workshop, successfully piloted last year through BioPACIFIC MIP. The workshop’s modules will kick off on October 12. Space is limited, so sign up today!

The ONDAS Student Center is currently recruiting graduate students to participate in "Thriving, Not Surviving: Navigating Higher Education as a First-Generation College Student." This panel discussion and mixer on first-generation college students' experiences will be held on August 30. Graduate Students who participate as a Panelist and/or Mentor Mixer at the event will be compensated.

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory announces their highly competitive postdoctoral fellowship program that is open to all technical disciplines. Fellows are free to pursue their own independent research agenda within an environment of subject matter experts who provide guidance and mentorship. Applications are due October 1.

Read on for tips from the National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity (NCFDD)--an independent professional development, training, and mentoring community--about the difficulty of actually writing every day. Membership in the NCFDD (free for UCSB students!) provides several forms of professional support to help combat common problems academics face.

Graduate Division's Academic Services unit will offer Filing Pre-check sessions August 28-September 1 (no sessions on Thursday). Schedule your Zoom appointment today!

With this year’s theme of “Re-envisioning Roles,” the Engaging Teaching Symposium invites participants to submit research-based contributions as well as case-studies that make use of available evidence to discuss improved teaching, student learning and engagement, or professional development as teachers. Submit an abstract by the extended deadline, September 15.

The Graduate Student Resource Center and Career Services are excited to welcome a new Graduate Career Peer Advisor, Osiris Hal. ​​Osiris is currently pursuing their PhD in Counseling, Clinical, and School Psychology, working in the Trauma & Resiliency, Resilience & Prevention (TARP) Lab. Read on to learn more about ​Osiris!

UC Santa Barbara’s National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) Learning Hub is hosting our next coreR course in October 2023. This is a five-day introductory course on collaborative, open, reproducible, and essential data science skills. Register by August 18. You can also apply for the Director's Scholarship, which covers tuition, travel and lodging, by August 11.

The UCSB Graduate Division is currently accepting applications for a Graduate Programming Assistant. This position provides programming and resources that help graduate students and postdoctoral scholars develop the skills to become effective professionals in a variety of careers. The position runs through the 2023-24 academic year and is renewable for subsequent years. Applications are due by 11:59pm on Aug 20.