Career Development

Five panelists discussed how they made careers in administrative positions after earning a Ph.D., how to advance one's career, and how to apply your grad school skills in an administration post.

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

UCSB Ar​ts & Lectures presents An Afternoon with Conan O’Brien, one of the most original and best-loved personalities in comedy today.

In a recent article on Vitae, James Van Wyck encourages graduate students to apply to their career preparation the same entrepreneurial spirit they apply to their academic research.

Come feed your stomach and your brain at our next Lunch & Learn event!

There are very few people I ha­ve ever met who are as truthful and kind as my former advisor: Dr. Horacio Nelson Roque Ramirez. The news of his passing over the holiday break has devastated me but it has also made me think of the multiple ways his presence at UCSB and in the academy changed my life.

Shawn Warner-Garcia, previously the Graduate Student Resource Center’s Professional Development Peer Advisor, has been named Professional Development Program Coordinator for the UCSB Graduate Division.

The National Center for Faculty Development & Diversity provides a series of mentoring services, including workshops focused on research and writing strategies, networking opportunities, and other forms of professional support and development.

They walked like elephants, buzzed like bumblebees, swam like a school of fish, and hugged like long-lost friends. All while barefoot. These were UC Santa Barbara graduate students and postdocs, learning the fundamentals of stage presence in Drama Instructor Jeff Mills’ four-hour “Stage Training for Academic Presenters” workshop.

In this installment of the GradPost column, "The Doctor Is In," three members of the UC Santa Barbara faculty answer graduate students' questions about the academic publishing process, including how much one should publish as a grad student and how to deal with the rigors of peer review. We hear from Dr. Richard Church, Dr. John Majewski; and Dr. Leila Rupp.

Dr. Tracy Pintchman, professor of Religious Studies at Loyola University Chicago, is grateful to have been the first recipient of a Towbes Fellowship at UC Santa Barbara. She earned her Ph.D. in Religious Studies from UCSB in 1992.

Boston College History Department Chair and UCSB alum Robin Fleming (BA, History, 1977; Ph.D., History, 1984) – whose research and teaching specialties are early medieval Britain and material culture – has been awarded a prestigious $625,000 MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, commonly known as a “Genius” grant.

Wardrobe consultant Lori Cooper emphasized being polished, put together, and professional at a workshop called “Dress Your Best for Job Interviews and Beyond.”

At an “Interviewing Skills” workshop at UCSB's Career Services Center, Career Counselor Molly Steen explained the “three P’s” of job interviews: Preparation, Practice, and Presentation. You might even say there are five P’s, as Steen repeated the mantra: “Practice! Practice! Practice!”