Career Development

Join Health & Wellness on Tuesdays during Spring Quarter for their Graduate Student Virtual Wellness Center. Drop in at your leisure for virtual wellness activities. Connect with other grad students while exploring various topics like stress reduction, acupressure, art therapy, mindfulness, healthy eating, ergonomics, and more!

The ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit convenes leaders from academia, business, and government to discuss cutting-edge energy technologies, facilitate relationships to move technologies to market, and showcase innovations that will advance solutions to current and future energy challenges. All graduate students can register for free. Registration closes Monday, May 17. Read on to learn more!

Join UCSB Beyond Academia for a unique event on May 21 designed to connect our campus’ diverse grad student and postdoc population with non-academic professionals who are eager to support them. Participants can engage in real time via a special affiliate Slack workspace to discuss a number of topics of interest. Attendees are also encouraged to engage asynchronously on the Slack space both before and after the event, so even if you can’t make it on May 21, be sure to sign up anyway in order to receive the Slack link!

Join ComSciCon for Combatting COVID with Black Communities, held remotely on Wednesday June 2nd at 9:00am PST. The workshop will provide the latest information on COVID-19 in Black communities, resources on the systemic inequities that lead to this racial disparity in healthcare, and training on science communication and building trust with Black communities. The workshop will also provide funding and further support to projects of attendees. Applications are due by Friday, May 14. Read on to learn more!

Read on for tips from the National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity (NCFDD)--an independent professional development, training, and mentoring community--about strategies to help you handle rejection. Membership in the NCFDD (free for UCSB students!) provides several forms of professional support to help combat common problems academics face. Read on to learn more!

Check out this UCSB series on grad student and postdoc professional development experiences funded by the Individualized Professional Skills (IPS) Program. Our latest featured video is by Jasmine Kelekay, a graduate student in Sociology, who attended the Afroeuropean Studies Conference. Read on to watch her video and learn more about the IPS program!

NIH is pleased to announce the 2021 Future Research Leaders Conference (FRLC). This is an excellent career development opportunity for talented, early-career scientists interested in pursuing careers at NIH’s Intramural Research Program (IRP). ​The 2-day virtual conference will be held on June 29-30, 2021. The application deadline is Monday, May 10 at 12 pm Eastern.

Grad students, need help managing your research? UCSB Library is offering a workshop on Zotero, a popular open source citation manager. Learn how Zotero can help you efficiently collect and organize your research, create bibliographies, collaborate with your colleagues, streamline your research process, and more. This workshop will be offered twice in May. Sign up today to reserve your spot.

Bain & Company is hosting two virtual recruiting events for all UCSB students interested in learning more about consulting. Click for more details and to register!

If you are a Ph.D. candidate with strong communication skills, are motivated to learn on the job, and have a desire to apply your education in unexpected and innovative ways, consider joining the Exponent Seminar & Recruitment Event on May 12th from 1:00-2:30pm (PDT).

Still looking for funding? Or planning ahead for 2021-2022? Attend the next Finding Funding Workshop on May 19th and learn about campus and external funding.

Graduate school can be intense, overwhelming, and stressful for most students – and that’s just the research and coursework aspects. In this workshop on May 18th, we’ll cover important techniques for addressing your own mental health during this precarious phase, including how to manage expectations, set realistic goals, and balance competing demands on your time and energy.

When you are on the academic job market, it can feel like a full-time job. That’s why it’s important to have a strategic plan as you enter into that phase of your grad school career. This workshop on May 17th will give an overview of the academic hiring process as well as information on how to search for an academic job, what materials you will need to prepare for applications and campus visits, and how to develop a realistic timeframe.

Join us for Lunch & Learn, where you'll have the chance to socialize with other grad students and hear talks by students in Materials and Communication. While we won't be able to share pizza in person, all attendees will be entered into a raffle to win a $15 Target gift card.

Come join Graduate Students for Diversity in Science and other graduate students as we discuss feelings of impostor syndrome in academia. This interactive workshop is designed to unpack feelings of impostor syndrome and provide tools to address these emotions. Designed specifically for underrepresented students in the sciences; however, all are welcome!