Seeking mentors for the 2023-24 Graduate Scholars Program

Call for Graduate Mentors

Are you a PhD candidate interested in helping first- and second-year doctoral students? Consider applying to be mentor for the Graduate Scholars Program! GSP supports graduate students from diverse and historically-underrepresented backgrounds throughout their graduate careers. Mentors receive stipends of $500/quarter. Apply by August 31.

Read More

IPS Insights: ETHDenver 2023 Community Conference

_IPS thumbnail icon

Check out this UCSB series on grad student and postdoc professional development experiences funded by the Individualized Professional Skills (IPS) Program. This week's featured video is by Maya Dentzel, a PhD student in Global Studies, who used the IPS funds to attend the ETHDenver 2023 Community Conference. Read on to watch the video and learn more about the IPS program!

Read More

Graduate student employees' access to LinkedIn Learning

LinkedInLearning

Attention graduate students! Are you employed through the university? If so, be sure to take advantage of the free training available to you through LinkedIn Learning. You have access to more than 5,000 software, creative, and business skills video tutorials that are current and taught by industry experts by logging in with your UCSB netID and password. Read on for more info!

Read More

IPS Insights: International Association of Public Transport Summit

_IPS thumbnail icon

Check out this UCSB series on grad student and postdoc professional development experiences funded by the Individualized Professional Skills (IPS) Program. This week's featured video is by Ariana Salas Castillo, a PhD student in Political Science, who used the IPS funds to attend the International Association of Public Transport Summit. Read on to watch the video and learn more about the IPS program!

Read More

IPS Insights: Conference for Computational Material Science and Engineering

_IPS thumbnail icon

Check out this UCSB series on grad student and postdoc professional development experiences funded by the Individualized Professional Skills (IPS) Program. This week's featured video is by Muna Saber, a PhD student in Chemical Engineering, who used the IPS funds to attend the Gordon Research Conference. Read on to watch the video and learn more about the IPS program!

Read More

TA orientation: Register and save the date

TA Orientation 2023 (1)

If you will be a teaching assistant (TA) or reader for the first time during the 2023-24 school year, you are required to complete the campus-wide TA Orientation, which will be held between September 18-26 this year (on-campus workshops held on September 26). Read on for more information and the registration link.

Read More

UCSB Career Services seeks new Assistant Director of Graduate Career Education

Assistant Director Career hiring

Career Services at UC Santa Barbara seeks an enthusiastic professional to fill the role of Assistant Director, Graduate Career Education. As part of a dynamic team of career services professionals, the Assistant Director functions with a high degree of autonomy to provide leadership as well as direct career support services to Master's and Ph.D. students and eligible alumni in various settings.

Read More

IPS Insights: Ecological Outcome Verification Training Course

_IPS thumbnail icon

Check out this UCSB series on grad student and postdoc professional development experiences funded by the Individualized Professional Skills (IPS) Program. This week's featured video is by Eva Wilson, a Master's student in the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management department, who used the IPS funds to take an Ecological Outcome Verification training course. Read on to watch the video and learn more about the IPS program!

Read More

IPS Insights: Certificate in Teaching Heritage Languages

_IPS thumbnail icon

Check out this UCSB series on grad student and postdoc professional development experiences funded by the Individualized Professional Skills (IPS) Program. This week's featured video is by am Samanta De Frutos GarcĂ­a, a PhD in Iberian Linguistics from the Spanish and Portuguese department, who used the IPS funds to earn a Certificate in Teaching Heritage Languages. Read on to watch the video and learn more about the IPS program!

Read More

IPS Insights: Private viola lessons

_IPS thumbnail icon

Check out this UCSB series on grad student and postdoc professional development experiences funded by the Individualized Professional Skills (IPS) Program. This week's featured video is by Cam Audras, a Master's student in the Music and Viola Performance department, who used the IPS funds to take private lessons on orchestral excerpts from top orchestral musicians. Read on to watch the video and learn more about the IPS program!

Read More

Tips from the NCFDD Monday Motivator: June 2023 edition

NCFDD

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.

Read More

ORCID Workshop for graduate students on June 7

ORCID workshop library

The UCSB Library will be offering an ORCID workshop for graduate students on Wednesday, June 7 from 12-1pm in Library Classroom 1312. ORCID is a unique, persistent digital identifier that you own and control, and that distinguishes you from every other researcher.

Read More