Spring quarter usually marks the end of the academic year, but finding funding is a continuous process! Check out this sample of upcoming deadlines of funding opportunities for postdoctoral, dissertation, research, and other funding. Various deadlines listed. Consult websites for current details and application information.
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Building professional relationships is crucial to career success. This workshop will cover how to create a strong base of professional connections, as well as how to identify and successfully navigate in-person and online networking opportunities through LinkedIn and other similar tools.
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The Gould lab of the UCSF School of Medicine is seeking two postdoctoral fellows who will lead NIH-funded projects on protein trafficking and neural crest development. Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the positions are filled.
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No matter the medium, communication boils down to one question: do you get your message across? True to Jean-luc’s quest for the essentials, this lecture takes a transversal view at the traditional forms of communication to discuss how to convey a message verbally and nonverbally, and how to organize messages into a story—in any medium.
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UCSB’s Department of Statistics and Applied Probability is looking to recruit TAs for their lower-division introduction courses: Intro to Stats (PSTAT 5A) and Biostatistics (PSTAT 5LS). Interested students should submit application materials to Jamie Pillsbury-Fischler as soon as possible.
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This spring quarter, the Graduate Student Resource Center and Career Services welcomes a new Graduate Career Peer Advisor, Ida Taghavi. Ida is a native Californian who is currently a PhD student in Counseling, Clinical, and School Psychology at UCSB. We chatted with her about her research interests, her passion for mentorship, and her love of yoga!
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Kristin Antelman kicks off the spring quarter as our new University Librarian on April 1. Before accepting her new role at UCSB, Kristin served as university librarian at the California Institute of Technology and worked as an associate director of libraries at NC State University. We caught up with Kristin to learn more about her career and what drew her to her new position at UCSB.
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The UC Humanities Research Institute’s graduate student professionalization initiative, Humanists@Work, will hold its final graduate student workshop on April 29 and 30, 2018. The workshop offers theoretical and practical sessions for PhD students considering diverse careers. UCHRI also offers travel grants for students from all UC campuses, so apply by April 1.
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Dr. Stephanie Couch, who received her Ph.D. from the UCSB Gevirtz Graduate School of Education in 2012, will take the stage as the 2018 UCSB Graduate Division Commencement Keynote speaker on Sunday, June 17. Dr. Couch has spent nearly two decades of her career working to build better education access through technological opportunities for students from underrepresented communities throughout California.
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The Graduate Division at UC Santa Barbara seeks an enthusiastic and dynamic professional to fill the role of Assistant Director for Graduate Student Professional Development. The Assistant Director plans and implements a program focused on academic and professional skills development for UCSB’s diverse graduate student population. For full consideration, please apply by Wednesday, April 11, 2018.
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The UCSB Library invites you to the UCSB Reads 2018 author talk on Tuesday, April 3. Hope Jahren, author of the 2018 UCSB Reads pick, Lab Girl, will be at Campbell Hall for a FREE lecture and book-signing.
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Professor Shelly Lundberg from the UCSB Department of Economics is seeking a graduate student Administrative Assistant to assistant with some temporary, part-time work now through August 30, 2018, or possibly longer.
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For this year's funding cycle, MAXQDA Research Grants offers financial support and methodological training to student-researchers whose fieldwork aims to study, bring awareness to, and contribute to community-engaged research.
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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.
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The UCLA Center for Iron Disorders is seeking a postdoctoral candidate for a T32 training grant position in a biosciences laboratory at UCLA School of Medicine. Negotiable start date. Contact Airie Kim for more information and next steps.
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