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The Student Speaker for the 2023 Graduate Commencement is Chris Chien, a candidate in the Teaching Education Program in the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education. He will be delivering the keynote at the Commencement ceremony on June 16 at 1pm. Read on to learn more about Chris!

Congratulations to Sergey Salushchev, PhD Candidate in History, and Thomas Lankiewicz, PhD Candidate in EEMB, who were selected as the winners of the 2023 Winifred and Louis Lancaster Dissertation Awards. Read on for more information and interviews with the Awardees.

Check out this UCSB series on grad student and postdoc professional development experiences funded by the Individualized Professional Skills (IPS) Program. This week's featured video is by Cam Audras, a Master's student in the Music and Viola Performance department, who used the IPS funds to take private lessons on orchestral excerpts from top orchestral musicians. Read on to watch the video and learn more about the IPS program!

Read on for tips from the National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity (NCFDD)--an independent professional development, training, and mentoring community--about the difficulty of actually writing every day. Membership in the NCFDD (free for UCSB students!) provides several forms of professional support to help combat common problems academics face.

All are invited to attend two upcoming theater events at the IV Community Center. The Tempest will run June 2-4, and Love & Information will run June 9 & 10.

The UCSB Library will be offering an ORCID workshop for graduate students on Wednesday, June 7 from 12-1pm in Library Classroom 1312. ORCID is a unique, persistent digital identifier that you own and control, and that distinguishes you from every other researcher.

All grads are invited to an event at Draughtsman Aleworks in Goleta at 7pm on Friday, June 2. PhD students in Mathematics Fabio Ricci and Joel C. Pion will be delivering a joint talk on applied fluid mechanics.

Virginia Tech is now accepting applications for the 2023 Future Faculty Diversity Program. This three-day program is designed to encourage graduate students and postdoctoral fellows to consider faculty positions at Virginia Tech. Application deadline is August 15.

The UCSB Graduate Division is currently seeking applications for its Diversity and Outreach Peer Advisor position, to begin employment in June 2023. Apply by June 2!

The Bren School of Environmental Science & Management's 2023 Master's of Environmental Data Science Capstone Projects will be presented to the public on Friday, June 2 from 1-4:15pm. This event is free and open to the public.

On June 2 at 7pm, The 2035 Initiative will offer an event featuring writer, historian, and activist Rebecca Solnit.

CARE is hiring for a Graduate Student Researcher (GSR) position. The GSR is expected to maintain ongoing development for graduate student education and is responsible for designing, planning, and implementing research‐informed and evidence‐based prevention programs for the campus community. Apply by May 28th.

Join UCSB's Center for Black Studies Research (CBSR) on May 24 for "Learning to See Again with a Bionic Eye," a talk by Dr. Iman Djouini, Assistant Teaching Professor in the College of Creative Studies at UCSB.

Next Monday, May 22, from 3-4pm Katherine Haake, author of The Time of Quarantine and That Water, These Rocks, will attend a Q&A session.

GS^3 offers an in-person 10-week seminar program featuring talks from a diverse set of graduate students and/or postdocs who use simulation in their research. Seminars will be held 2-3p on Wednesdays from July 12-September 13.