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Our final profile features Asish Ninan Chacko, who is entering the Ph.D. program in Chemistry and Biochemistry. Learn what it was like to grow up in a village in India located below sea level, what Asish hopes to learn about chemical synthesis, and why he loves Taylor Swift!

Next up in our 2020 Incoming Grad Series is Royce Olarte, who is entering the Ph.D. program in Education. Learn more about his research on mathematics education as well as his past as a traveling singer and musician!

Attention grad students: the Graduate Writers' Room is moving to Thursdays on Zoom! Join us on Thursday at any time from 9am-12pm to work alongside your colleagues. Sign up today!

Next up in our 2020 Incoming Grad Series is Eve Bodnia, who is entering the Ph.D. program in Physics. Learn more about Eve's research on dark matter and how she decided to become a parent while completing her undergraduate degree at Berkeley!

Next up in our 2020 Incoming Grad Series is Jackie Chin, who is entering the Ph.D. program in Counseling, Clinical, and School Psychology. Learn more about Jackie's work developing interventions that create and protect safe spaces for young Black and brown LGBTQIA+ communities and her love of dancing on the beach!

Next up in our 2020 Incoming Grad Series is Christabel Agyeiwaa, who is entering the PhD program in History. Learn more about Christabel's life in Ghana, how she fell in love with the study of history, and her passion for cooking and dance!

Next up in our 2020 Incoming Grad Series is Robin Liu, who is entering the PhD program in Statistics and Applied Probability. Learn more about Robin's research, many hobbies, and his five minutes of fame as an actor!

Next up in our 2020 Incoming Grad Series is Richard Nedjat-Haiem who is entering the PhD program in Comparative Literature. Learn more about Richard's research, his background in dance, and how he ended up as the star of a viral video!

First up in our 2020 Incoming Grad Series is Andrea Gracia, who is entering the Master's program in Environmental Science and Management at the Bren School. Learn more about how Andrea developed her research interests as well as her interests outside of school – including juggling and electronic dance music!

UC Santa Barbara welcomes 880 new graduate students ​​at the end of this month. We break down ​some statistics on ​this great group and give you a sneak peek at our upcoming series profiling eight of our new student​s. Read on to learn more!

The Graduate Division is excited to welcome our new ​Funding Peer Advisor, ​Ranjani Atur. Ranjani will work to help graduate students search for funding opportunities and improve their financial literacy. Read on to find out more about ​​Ranjani!

UCSB graduate students and postdocs are invited to join us for a new career development course! It is free of charge and will help you explore alternative careers to academia. This is essentially a “career class” where you will get individualized feedback, insider information on how to best sell your skills and network with the right people. This free 10-week course runs from Oct 5 - Dec 11 and is self-paced, asynchronous, engaging, and will help hold you accountable for you to finally make progress on your career goals. Sign up by September 25!

The UCSB COVID-19 Call Center at (805) 893-3113 is now operational weekdays 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., working with the UCSB COVID-19 Response Team to assist our students, faculty, and staff to obtain answers for their questions related to COVID-19 health issues and other campus changes that have resulted from the COVID-19 pandemic. Read on to learn more!

The UCSB Graduate Division is currently accepting applications for its Funding Peer Advisor position to begin employment in Summer 2020. The Funding Peer educates and advises UCSB’s graduate students about internal and external funding opportunities as well as personal finance matters. The position runs through the 2020-21 academic year and is renewable for subsequent years. Applications are due today!

On July 24, 2020, Chancellor Yang announced that Professor Leila Rupp will serve as the Interim Anne and Michael Towbes Graduate Dean for UCSB's Graduate Division. Read on to learn more about Dr. Rupp!