Graduate StudentResource Center

During Winter 2023, visiting Graduate Career Consultant Vay Cao, founder of Free the PhD, hosted a number of virtual workshops on various topics related to graduate student professional development. These workshops were all recorded and are available to stream through your UCSB Google Account.

The UCSB Research Mentorship Program (RMP) is seeking graduate students, postdocs, and researchers for a paid mentorship opportunity this summer. Applications are due June 1.

The Rady MicroMBA, a program run out of UC San Diego, is now open to all graduate students and postdocs. This course, which runs July and August 2023, is designed to allow STEM researchers to get a basic understanding of the business topics they might encounter should they decide to take their research from the lab to market.

Are you in the middle stages of your dissertation and running into roadblocks? Do you need some new strategies and habits to help you finish up? Then apply for the first session of the 2023 Dissertation Write-In, which runs from June 19-22! The application deadline is Friday, May 12.

Join UCSB's Women in Science and Engineering and the Center for Science and Engineering Partnerships for a Career Panel next Thursday, April 27. Following the panel, there will be a networking session. Refreshments will be provided.

Join the Center for Science and Engineering Partnerships for their second year of Whole PhD! This online series, run through Instagram, shares resources and engages discussions around five core personal and professional development themes. It is designed for Master's students, PhD Students, and postdocs across the STEM disciplines.

The Interdisciplinary Humanities Center is accepting applications for paid graduate instructors in Foundations in the Humanities, a social justice correspondence program in California prisons. Applications are due on May 1.

The Career Services Spring 2023 Events and Workshops lineup features great resources to help you with your career planning and development. Read on to learn more about their programming and to access registration links!

L. Maren Wood and the rest of the team at Beyond the Professoriate are hosting their 10th Annual Online Career Conference for Graduate Students and PhDs on May 1-6.

Instructional Development is offering a Spring Workshop Series for grad students and TAs centered on DEI and Teaching.

Applications are now open for the Graduate Student Internship Fellowship, which offers up to five $2,000-$2,500 scholarships annually to help graduate students explore career opportunities and gain valuable work experience while in school. Applications are open until April 30, 2023. Read on to learn how to apply!

The BioPACIFIC MIP Fellows Program is now accepting applications from Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Researchers to become a BioPACIFIC MIP Fellow. This unique training opportunity will immerse awardees in a community of researchers engaging in transdisciplinary biomaterials research while providing career preparation, travel grants, and mentorship within a network of academic and industry professionals.

The Green Initiative Fund (TGIF) is now accepting applications for Fast Track Funding. These applications are due April 14. Any UCSB student, staff, or faculty member is eligible to apply for funding for their projects.

UCSB graduate students and research faculty with deep technology to bring to market are invited to participate in the UCLA Innovation Corps (I-Corps) Regional Program (ZAP).

Do you want to learn more about writing lit reviews? This workshop, offered by the UCSB Library on April 5 from 12-1pm in Library 1312, will offer strategies on how to take on this sometimes intimidating writing task. This workshop is open to all graduate students.

UCSB's Division of Undergraduate Education is hiring two Graduate Student Assistants for Spring 2023 to assist with the development of an online course, "Introduction to Liberal Arts Education." See article for application instructions.

UCSB Career Services and the GSRC are recruiting two Graduate Career positions, to begin employment in Summer 2023 and run through Spring quarter 2024. The position will help graduate students on issues related to career development including direct service and programming development and support.

The Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program 2024-25 competition is now open! Over 400 unique awards are available for American faculty, professionals and researchers - including postdoctoral scholars - to teach, research, and conduct professional projects in more than 130 countries.

Are you interested in learning more about DEIA teaching practices, and finding a community of other like-minded instructors? Come to the Inclusive Teaching Symposium on March 20. The event will feature presentations on current inclusive pedagogy projects at UCSB, lightning talks from DEI Discussions reading group participants, and a Q&A session with Drs. Viji Sathy & Kelly Hogan.

Learn how you can propel your research into a startup and receive a $50,000 grant! The National Science Foundation's Innovation Corps (I-Corps) program is an entrepreneurial training program for university-based STEM researchers and early-stage startup founders with the primary purpose to support the transition of laboratory discoveries into breakthrough innovations.