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Have you ever considered what teachers can learn from actors? This workshop will offer some acting tips for teachers who wish to increase their presence, confidence, and enthusiasm in the classroom. It will introduce you to some easy, practical exercises that can help improve these aspects of teaching and transform your classroom performance.philosophy statement.

Join us for the 6th annual Grad Slam, a campus-wide competition for the best three-minute talk by a graduate student. The competition features a People's Choice component, so be sure to check out the full prelim schedule and come out and support your friends and fellow grads starting on April 9!

Don't miss out on one of our most popular grad events of the year: the Library Wine & Cheese Reception! This April 9 event is ​free to all grad students in possession of a valid ID that says you're a graduate student and over the age of 21.

Writing a Teaching Philosophy Statement can be a challenge, and is required for most teaching positions. As a participant in this workshop, you will work through a series of exercises to help you reflect on your teaching, and by workshop end you will have a draft outline of your teaching.

The first day of section can help you set the tone for the classroom culture that you want to develop this spring. In this workshop, we will discuss approaches and activities for the first day of section that will get students thinking, talking, and participating from Day 1.

We are on the home stretch for this academic year! Make the most of your Spring Quarter by taking advantage of the many workshops and events offered through the Graduate Student Resource Center. Be sure to mark your calendars and check out our Events page for updated information as events get closer.

Interested in a career in higher-education teaching? In this mock group interview, participants will have a chance to practice talking about their teaching. To foster authenticity, we will induce a mild degree of nervousness by videotaping participants. During a private follow-up session, you will have the opportunity to review your performance on videotape with an Instructional Consultant.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.