Career Development

Join us for an informal coffee hour chat with Sharif Taha, Ph.D., a neuroscientist and science communication expert who will talk about careers in scientific communication, specifically medical writing. Light refreshments will be provided! Read on for more details and to RSVP.

On February 5, join Instructional Development for a workshop on making effective handouts! Handouts can be a great way to help your students breakdown complex topics, understand old material in new ways, or organize their thinking. This workshop will provide you with example handouts and different takes on how to format your handouts. Space is limited, so sign up today!

Come learn about the Individualized Professional​ Skills (IPS) Grant Program at our February 1 Meet & Eat! You'll hear from Will Summers (PhD Student, Materials) and Jasmine Childress (PhD Student, EEMB) about their professional development experiences funded by the IPS grant. Sign up today!

Looking to transition to a career in fields like data science, data engineering, or artificial intelligence? Apply to become an Insight Fellow! The Insight Data Fellows Programs are tuition-free fellowships for graduating students, PhDs, and postdocs. The application deadline for Insight’s Fellowships is quickly approaching on January 28.

Do you want to learn to be more productive and effective at writing and conducting academic research? Would you like to develop and use a sound project-management approach to completing your dissertation or thesis? Then this workshop on January 31 is for you! Sign up today.

Interested in finding funding for an internship or job opportunity? Come to the Graduate Student Internship Fellowship Information Session on January 31 to learn how to create a strong application to be a competitive applicant for $2000-2500 in fellowship funds. Get the experience you need without the financial strain!

The Gevirtz Graduate School of Education (GGSE) ​​invites graduate students to join colleagues from Lithuania ​(in​cluding GGSE alum Audra Skukauskaitė) for free lunch and an ​exciting learning opportunity on transforming Health Sciences in Higher Education. This is a unique opportunity for those interested in Global Education initiatives. Read on for more info!

The Data Incubator is an intensive 8 week fellowship that prepares masters students, PhDs, and postdocs in STEM and social science fields seeking industry careers as data scientists. The program is free for Fellows and supported by sponsorships from hundreds of employers across multiple industries. Apply now! Deadline is January 21st.

Mark your calendars! The 2019 Winter Career & Internship Fair will be a TWO-DAY event hosted at Corwin Pavilion. Meeting and interacting with recruiters face-to-face is still a critical part of the job search process — the Winter Career Fair will offer you a unique opportunity to make personal connections that are impossible when simply submitting a resume online. Read on for more information.

On January 30, join Instructional Development for a workshop on checking for understanding in the classroom. It can be challenging to figure out if students are following or if topics still need some extra time and coverage. This workshop will discuss interactive techniques and activities that encourage students to ask questions and allow you to gauge class-wide comprehension. Space is limited, so sign up today!

One of the most essential writing genres for a graduate student to master is one that is rarely formally taught: grant/fellowship applications. Because every grant/fellowship has its own style, this workshop on January 30 will focus on larger genre concerns, such as how to identify your audience, how to make your work sound important, and how to figure out what a particular agency is looking to fund.

Do you think you’re up for the challenge of presenting an interesting, spatially-relevant topic in just three minutes? Prospective speakers for the 2019 Spatial Lightning Talks are invited to sign up by February 1. This annual series of 3-minute lightning talks brings together speakers from across the UCSB campus as well as the local community to enlighten the crowd on spatial topics of all sorts.

Path to Postdoc @ UCSF is a unique program for outstanding senior graduate students (that will complete their PhD by the end of 2019) to be exposed to world-class research opportunities at UCSF. Students will have an opportunity to interview with faculty research mentors for a postdoctoral position in their lab, give a research presentation to faculty and the UCSF community, meet current postdocs, and experience San Francisco. Apply now! Deadline is February 1.

You are invited to attend the Kavli BRAIN Showcase on January 18! The goal of this symposium is to foster collaboration within the UCSB community on mind and brain-related research. Grad students and postdocs with an interest in this topic, who think they might have something to contribute, or want to make contact with others in the field, are encouraged to attend. Read on for details!

The Social Science Research Council invites applications from advanced graduate students and junior faculty in the social sciences to participate in a seminar on “Mechanical Rules before Machines: Rules and Paradigms” led by the Council’s 2019 Fellow, Professor Lorraine Daston. Application deadline is January 18, 2019.