Career Development

This workshop is designed with BIPOC graduate students in mind. Please join us on Sunday, May 17 from 4-6pm. RSVP today!

Health and Wellness is offering a cooking class just for graduate students that will be focused on Asian cooking! Explore Asian cooking with a vegetarian twist as you try your hand at several different dishes on Zoom! ​Health & Wellness will have breakout room "stations" that participants will visit including Korean Tuna Pancakes, Fresh Spring Rolls, and Soba Noodle Salad. RSVP to receive the ingredients list!

Have you been meaning to update your resume but don't have the time? Do you want to learn how to stand out from the crowd? Join us for this online workshop to learn tips and techniques that will help you craft and strategically target your resume. Use the time to actually workshop and update your resume with expert help.

Join the MCC tomorrow evening for a Zoom workshop from the MCC's Empowering Student Leaders Series. Artist-healer Thea Monyee will lead a conversation about how to use the challenges of living through a pandemic to resurrect connections to ancestral, elder, and natural knowledge for survival and to thrive in the midst of a crisis.

During a time of enormous uncertainty and loss, the MCC would like to offer BIPOC graduate students of UCSB a moment of pause and collective care. Join yoga psychotherapist Kala Lacy on May 6th at 11am for a guided meditation and conversation about grief and the importance of creating time for grief in community and social movement spaces. RSVP for the Zoom link!

Reduce your anxiety about finances by attending this workshop on May 19 to learn basic terminology, tools, and plans for budgeting. Leave with tools to create a plan on how to manage your graduate income. RVSP today!

Are you feeling like this just wasn't the year to be truly productive? Are you hoping to turn things around with your writing this summer? Read on for tips from the National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity (NCFDD), an independent professional development, training, and mentoring community. Membership (free for UCSB students!) provides several forms of professional support to help combat common problems academics face - find out more here.

The Graduate Writers' Room is ​BACK on Tuesdays from 9am-12pm on Zoom to help you stay accountable Spring quarter. You only need to sign up once to have access for the whole quarter! Read on for more info or to RSVP for the recurrent Zoom link.

The Graduate Writers' Room is ​BACK on Tuesdays from 9am-12pm on Zoom to help you stay accountable Spring quarter. You only need to sign up once to have access for the whole quarter! Read on for more info or to RSVP for the recurrent Zoom link.

The Graduate Writers' Room is ​BACK on Tuesdays from 9am-12pm on Zoom to help you stay accountable Spring quarter. You only need to sign up once to have access for the whole quarter! Read on for more info or to RSVP for the recurrent Zoom link.

The Graduate Writers' Room is ​BACK on Tuesdays from 9am-12pm on Zoom to help you stay accountable Spring quarter. You only need to sign up once to have access for the whole quarter! Read on for more info or to RSVP for the recurrent Zoom link.

The Graduate Writers' Room is ​BACK on Tuesdays from 9am-12pm on Zoom to help you stay accountable Spring quarter. You only need to sign up once to have access for the whole quarter! Read on for more info or to RSVP for the recurrent Zoom link.

Come sip coffee with other international grad students in this revolving, come-and-go-as-you-please socializing hour so we don't forget how to be humans in real life! RSVP for our May 12th session today.

This workshop on May 14 will teach participants what the various modes of revision are. From there, it will explore assorted comments students receive on their writing and connect those comments to the appropriate mode of revision. Finally, we will present strategies and exercises for how to engage each type of revision so that students can hone their revision skills. RSVP today!

The Multidisciplinary Postdoctoral Training Program in Basic Diabetes Research at the University of Michigan prepares PhD basic scientists for careers in diabetes research. The objective of this program is to provide the research experience and skills needed for postdoctoral scientists to gain a modern cellular, genetic, and molecular understanding of diabetes, and to set the foundation for a career in basic diabetes research. Deadline to apply is June 1, 2020.