Career & Tools
Come learn about the Individualized Professional Skills (IPS) Grant Program at our May 17 Meet & Eat! You'll hear from Tayyebeh Bakhshi (PhD student in Chemistry and Biochemistry) and Melissa Hingorani (PhD student in Psychological and Brain Sciences) about their professional development experiences funded by the IPS grant.
Come learn about the Individualized Professionalâ Skills (IPS) Grant Program at âour ââMay â1â7 Meet & Eat! You'll hear about professional development experiences funded by the IPS âgrant from:
- Tayyebeh Bakhshi (âPhD student in Chemistry and Biochemistry), who attended Water & Wastewater Equipment, Treatment & Transport in Indianapolis, IN, and
- Melissa Hingorani (PhD student in Psychological and Brain Sciences), who attended Sling Health's Demo Day in St Louis, MO.
The IPS Program is designed to award up to $1000 in grant funding to eligible graduate students and postdoctoral scholars who wish to individually tailor their career paths with outside professional development opportunities. These opportunities include but are not limited to: attending workshops, conferences, industry trade shows, trainings, certificates, and other professional events; visits to potential industries and companies; visits to job shadow potential mentors or others in a chosen industry; professional organization events; and more. To find out more about the program, click here.
The Individualized Professional Skills Grant Program is a pilot project funded by the NSF Mentoring Program at the Graduate Division, the Professional Development Series at the Center for Science and Engineering Partnerships, and the UCSB Innovation and Entrepreneurship initiative (formerly SEED-SB), and in partnership with Career Services, the Center for Bioengineering, and the Graduate Student Resource Center.