Career Development

What is it about your research that motivates and excites you? At Lunch & Learn, we want to know! Sign up to be a speaker at one of our upcoming events to share your research, expand your CV, and practice public speaking in a friendly and cross-disciplinary environment.

If you're looking for top-notch online professional development resources for grad students and postdocs, then check out the National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity. Take advantage of their weekly motivational emails, Career Center, webinars, and multi-week courses.

The Institute for Human Studies at George Mason University is offering an hour-long online workshop on developing your academic elevator pitch. This workshop is free for students in the humanities and social sciences.

Faculty PIs with NSF awards are encouraged to apply for a $50,000 supplemental funding opportunity to provide support for non-academic research internships for graduate students. The first deadline is June 23, 2017.

Read on to find out more about campus resources to protect your digital information from scammers and other online threats.

Join Dr. Perez and Dr. Rogers as they discuss the founding of Apeel Sciences, the science behind ​their technology, and how it will change food processing worldwide.

Attend the Finding Funding Workshop to get a refresher on strategies for finding funding besides just searching databases. Get information on which resources are best for your field of study and create simple tasks that reduce the anxiety of looking for money.

Summer is almost here, which means that if you're planning to go on the academic job market this fall, it's time come up with a game plan. This workshop will provide an overview of the academic hiring process as well as information on how to prepare for this phase of your grad school career.

Check out the inaugural event of the Santa Barbara & Goleta Biotechnology Industry Showcase! Join them for a series of short presentations and networking opportunities with industry representatives from the local biotechnology community.

This opportunity is for application by a faculty/principal investigator for $120,000 in funding to appoint and support a Postdoctoral Fellow in environmental chemistry. Deadline is August 1, 2017

Are you working on a project that you want to bring to market in the near future? Consider applying for the NSF National I-Corps Program that could provide you $50,000 in funding. There will be two ZAP trainings on May 26 and June 2.

Join us for the ​final Lunch & Learn event of the quarter, featuring talks by graduate students in ​​Music and Environmental Science & Management who will both be focusing on games, which is sure to be a lot of fun! Grab free lunch and socialize with your fellow grads.

Join the Office of Research in their Seminar Series on research ethics to learn some of the challenges researchers face with peer review and authorship and how to overcome these obstacles.

Want to capture the reader's attention and encapsulate your research concisely? Learn how at the Introduction and Problem Statement workshop led by Writing Peer Kyle Crocco.

Do you know an incoming Ph.D. student that could benefit from a 13-day intensive training workshop in oral academic English? We encourage you to submit a recommendation by June 2 for non-native speakers of English. The workshop is limited to 15 participants.