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The Data Incubator is an intensive 8 week fellowship that prepares masters students, PhDs, and postdocs in STEM and social science fields seeking industry careers as data scientists. The program is free for Fellows and supported by sponsorships from hundreds of employers across multiple industries. Apply now! Deadline is January 21st.

Mark your calendars! The 2019 Winter Career & Internship Fair will be a TWO-DAY event hosted at Corwin Pavilion. Meeting and interacting with recruiters face-to-face is still a critical part of the job search process — the Winter Career Fair will offer you a unique opportunity to make personal connections that are impossible when simply submitting a resume online. Read on for more information.

Do you think you’re up for the challenge of presenting an interesting, spatially-relevant topic in just three minutes? Prospective speakers for the 2019 Spatial Lightning Talks are invited to sign up by February 1. This annual series of 3-minute lightning talks brings together speakers from across the UCSB campus as well as the local community to enlighten the crowd on spatial topics of all sorts.

Path to Postdoc @ UCSF is a unique program for outstanding senior graduate students (that will complete their PhD by the end of 2019) to be exposed to world-class research opportunities at UCSF. Students will have an opportunity to interview with faculty research mentors for a postdoctoral position in their lab, give a research presentation to faculty and the UCSF community, meet current postdocs, and experience San Francisco. Apply now! Deadline is February 1.

You are invited to attend the Kavli BRAIN Showcase on January 18! The goal of this symposium is to foster collaboration within the UCSB community on mind and brain-related research. Grad students and postdocs with an interest in this topic, who think they might have something to contribute, or want to make contact with others in the field, are encouraged to attend. Read on for details!

The Social Science Research Council invites applications from advanced graduate students and junior faculty in the social sciences to participate in a seminar on “Mechanical Rules before Machines: Rules and Paradigms” led by the Council’s 2019 Fellow, Professor Lorraine Daston. Application deadline is January 18, 2019.

Michigan State University is currently inviting applications from US graduate students for the 2019 US-China International Research Experience. This research opportunity is for graduate students interested in building international research relationships, gaining experience in developing/porting software and algorithms for supercomputers, and exploring China. Read on for more info.

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. Funds are awarded to students who demonstrate​ financial need as well as how their Summer or Fall 2019 work experience will be ​beneficial for their career trajectory. Application deadline is March 17th.

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 this Winter 2019 course offering from the UCSB Graduate Division!

Looking for practical experience in policy-making and development? Capital Fellows are placed at some of the highest levels of California state government and assist state legislators, senior-level executive staff, and court administrators with a broad range of public policy issues and projects. Application deadline is February 11, 2019.

The UCSB Academic Senate is now accepting nominations for Outstanding Teaching Assistant Awards. Teaching assistants play a vital role in enhancing the teaching mission of the University. The Outstanding Teaching Assistant Awards recognize the contributions of graduate students to the teaching and learning process at UC Santa Barbara. Nomination deadline is January 2, 2019.

The UC San Diego Center on Gender Equity and Health is seeking interns for a three-campus study to assess knowledge, attitudes, and factors surrounding the prevention of sexual assault, harassment, and dating violence at UCLA, UCSD, and UCSB. The researchers on this project are currently seeking a graduate student from UCSB to join their team as a research intern from December 2018 through the end of the current academic year. Apply today!

The Department of Sociology is in need of a Winter '19 Teaching Assistant (TA) for either Intro to Sociology or Special Topics in Sociology (to be determined). Read on for more information about the position and specifics for submitting an application!

The School for Scientific Thought (SST) provides UCSB science and engineering graduate students and postdocs the opportunity to design and teach a five-session hands-on course, on a topic related to research, for an audience of local and regional high school students. Winter 2019 applications are due December 21, 2018. Apply today!

Interested in working at a community college? The California Community Colleges Registry is hosting a Southern California job fair in Los Angeles and a Northern California job fair in Oakland for community college districts. Faculty and administrator recruitment is the focus of this FREE job fair. Register today!

Career Services and the GSRC are seeking graduate students with past internship experience to come speak on a student panel that will be held Wednesday, February 6. The panel will provide fellow graduate students with advice on seeking out, applying for, and succeeding in internships of all different disciplines. If you have insight that you can share with your peers, please let us know! Deadline to confirm participation as a panelist is January 18.

The Spatial Center is a cross- and inter-disciplinary center that brings together thinkers and doers from across (and off) campus to consider, apply, and promote novel ways to infuse a spatial perspective into all kinds of research. They host and promote academic presentations and lunch-time talks to increase campus awareness of graduate student research. RSVP for their November 28 Spatial Technology Lunch today!

Announcing the honorary guest speakers and the opening of abstract submission for the ​4th annual University of California Chemical Symposium! UCCS​ 2019 will take place March 24-27, 2019, at the Lake Arrowhead Conference Center. Abstract submission is now open through December 14, 2018. Learn more and apply today!

The William & Mary's Graduate Research Symposium Committee invites Arts & Sciences graduate students at UCSB to participate in the 18th Annual Graduate Research Symposium on March 15 & 16, 2019. They are seeking abstract submissions from currently enrolled graduate students in the following discipline(s): American Studies, Anthropology, Applied Science, Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, History, Physics, Psychology, and Public Policy. Read more here!

The application for City Internships' 2018/19 Study and Intern Abroad Programs is now open. For this academic year, City Internships is offering Winter, Spring, and Summer Programs in nine locations. All of the programs feature a series of career-readiness classes, workshops, and events centered around an internship placement at a leading company in an industry of interest to a student. Apply today!