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The NASA Postdoctoral Program (NPP) provides early-career and senior scientists the opportunity to share in NASA's mission, to reach for new heights and reveal the unknown so that what we do and learn will benefit all humankind. Postdoctoral Fellows work on 1- to 3-year assignments with NASA scientists and engineers at NASA centers and institutes. The next NPP deadline is July 1, 2019.

The Center for Science and Engineering Partnerships (CSEP) is hosting a 4-part series of mentor training workshops open to anyone who will be mentoring this summer and wanting to grow and develop their mentoring skills. Read on for more info and to RSVP.

MADE [at] UCSB is the Media Arts and Technology Program’s (MAT) End of Year Show at UC Santa Barbara. Showcasing graduate student work that connects media art, design, and engineering, MADE [at] UCSB represents the mission of MAT: to enable the creation of hybrid work that informs both scientific and aesthetic discourses. Read on for more info!

The UCSB Library is pleased to announce the return of extended hours for dead & finals weeks. Beginning June 2 and ending June 13, Late Night Study will begin at 6PM. During Late Night Study, the Library is only open to UCSB students, faculty, and staff. Read on for more info!

City of Hope's 3rd Annual Biomedical Graduate Student Symposium provides various professional development opportunities for attendees. Organizers encourage PhD students to present their current research; abstracts of 500 words or less can be submitted online and are now due July 31. Registration for the symposium opens June 1.

Have you considered continuing your research interests in the medical field? Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center (CCHMC) offers a wide range of opportunities for postdoctoral fellows to learn collaboratively across various specialties with the support of faculty and staff at a premier medical institution. Find an opportunity for you today!

UCSB Library is offering a Summer Python series on Tuesday mornings from June 25-September 10. These lessons are ​free and open to UCSB affiliates, including students, researchers, staff, and faculty. The lesson, Plotting and Programming in Python, is an introduction to programming in Python for people with little or no previous programming experience. Read on for more info and to sign up!

The Non-Traditional Student Resource Center is looking to hire a Graduate Student Assistant who will be responsible for collaborating with affiliated departments and addressing the needs of the Non-Traditional Student population. Read on for more info and to apply!

The Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Fellowships aim to provide U.S. professionals the opportunity to teach, conduct research, or carry out a combination of teaching and research at an Indian institution. All academic disciplines will be considered. Application deadline is August 1, 2019. Read on for details.

The Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies is currently accepting applications for teaching assistants for first-year German language courses for the academic year 2019-2020. Primary duties will include teaching, grading of homework and assignments, and enrollment in a German 500 methodology practicum. Interested students should submit application materials as soon as possible. Read on for more info!

Stanford PRISM (Postdoctoral Recruitment Initiative in Sciences and Medicine) is an opportunity for select late-stage graduate students from diverse backgrounds to come to Stanford for a recruitment weekend, interview with potential mentors, and get the inside scoop on postdoctoral training at Stanford. Priority Review deadline is July 8, 2019; application closes August 5, 2019. Read on for more info!

2019 marks the sixth anniversary of TEDxUCSB! The event will feature nine talks on a range of topics centered on this year's theme, "Declaration of Interdependence." TEDxUCSB will take place on Saturday, June 1, 2019, from 2-6pm in UCSB's Theater and Dance W1701. Read on for details!

UC Santa Barbara's Center for Black Studies Research is seeking a postdoctoral researcher in Social Sciences with a focus on Black Studies. The research may include the fields of psychology, education, sociology, communication studies, anthropology, and data science as it applies to social sciences and other social science disciplines and fields. Priority application deadline is June 15, 2019. Read on for more info!

Are you an innovative scholar who aspires to conduct research in Israel and join the Fulbright family? The United States-Israel Educational Foundation (USIEF) plans to award eight grants to U.S. postdoctoral scholars who seek to pursue research at Israeli institutions of higher education. Grants are open to all academic disciplines and support programs of work in Israel for up to two academic years. Apply by September 16, 2019.

The Stanford Molecular Imaging Scholars (SMIS) program is an integrated, three-year cross-disciplinary postdoctoral training program at Stanford University that brings together 33 faculty mentors from 14 departments in the Schools of Medicine, Engineering, and Humanities, and Sciences. Deadline to apply is June 17, 2019. Read on for details.