Career Development

The UCSB Graduate Division is currently accepting applications for its Funding Peer Advisor position to begin employment in Summer 2016 and run through Spring quarter 2017.

A free, downloadable guide from Vitae offers advice on negotiating your academic job offer.

Shake off that mid-quarter slump and join your fellow grad students for our next Lunch & Learn! Co-sponsored by the Graduate Division, the Library, and the Graduate Students Association, you'll enjoy free lunch and a chance to socialize with and learn from graduate students across the campus.

Join us for an informational session with Melodie Blakemore, Senior Research Integrity Specialist from the Office of Research, who will tell you what you need to know when preparing your human subjects protocol and will answer your questions about the process.

A workshop on writing an effective cover letter for an academic position. The workshop is open to all UCSB graduate students and postdocs.

RSVP to the Loans & Loan Management Workshop on May 4, hosted by your Funding Peer.

This free full-day conference includes workshops, panel discussions, and speakers centered on a wide spectrum of topics including race, gender, environmental justice, gentrification, community bridging, and more.

Graduate Career Consultant Lana Smith-Hale will host an information session and tutorial on how you can envision, prepare for, and excel in a non-academic career using the tools provided by Versatile Ph.D.

The Graduate Students for Diversity in Science are presenting two talks for the Spring Distinguished Lecture Series, ​featuring Dr. Caroline Ajo-Franklin from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

The Entrepreneurs Association is hosting the first-ever Startup Symposium with over 15 Santa Barbara startups looking to hire graduate and undergraduate students of all disciplines ASAP.

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.

Dr. Walter Kohn, founding director of UC Santa Barbara’s Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics and 1998 winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his development of the density functional theory, has died.

Check out this exhibition in the library's Interdisciplinary Research Collaboratory that presents a visual exploration of trends in data, culture, and aesthetics created by an interdisciplinary group of six UCSB grad students in the Department of Film and Media Studies.

The Bren School of Environmental Science & Management's 2016 Master's Projects will be presented to the public on Friday, April 29, at The Fess Parker Hotel.

Prof. Moustafa Bayoumi will examine the ways the media, law, and politics mutually reinforce each other in viewing Muslims as potentially dangerous outsiders.