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Kali Yamboliev, a doctoral candidate studying medieval Mediterranean history, exemplifies the diversity and achievements of UCSB students. She sat down to talk with us about her upcoming year abroad as a Fulbright Fellow and how she learned to balance work and life in grad school.

Virginia Tech is hosting the Future Faculty Development Program, an exciting and rewarding two-day event for a small group of doctoral students and post-doctoral scholars interested in pursuing academic careers.

Due to unforeseen circumstances, we must cancel the Finding Funding workshop that was originally scheduled for September 13. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause, and we will inform you if we are able to reschedule the workshop in the near future.

The UCSB Interdisciplinary Humanities Center (IHC) seeks 10-12 graduate students with native fluency in Spanish or Mandarin to serve as interpreters at Isla Vista Elementary School during the school’s twice-yearly Parent-Teacher Conference weeks.

Check out the University of Michigan Medical School (UMMS) Postdoc Preview ​event being held from Dec. 8-9 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The preview event introduces upper-level graduate students in the biomedical sciences to the extensive research and training opportunities at Michigan.

The Graduate Student Resource Center will be hosting a workshop on writing a research statement for an academic position. We will cover methods of organizing experience, types of content to include, and the tone you should set in your statement.

For eight weeks this summer, undergraduate scholars from across the country traveled to UCSB to participate in three research programs hosted by the Graduate Division that allowed them to conduct research in their fields of interest under the guidance of a faculty and graduate student mentor.

The Interdisciplinary Humanities Center's 2016-17 Graduate Affiliates Program seeks four graduate students to participate in a pedagogical project in social justice as part of this year’s IHC public programming series Community Matters.

PayJunction is currently hiring for three positions at ​their headquarters in downtown Santa Barbara, and they are specifically looking for MS and Ph.D. candidates in CS/ECE.

If you're looking for a job, the Campus Advocacy, Resources & Education (CARE) program is looking to hire a graduate assistant. The deadline to apply is Friday, September 2.

In this workshop, Lana Smith-Hale and Turi Honegger will cover important techniques for addressing your mental health during career transitions, including how to manage expectations, set realistic goals, and balance competing demands on your time and energy.

Whether you have a letter you're working on or are just thinking about writing a letter, this workshop is for you. All UCSB graduate students and postdocs are welcome, but enrollment is limited to 15 per workshop.

The Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies invites ​graduate students to apply for an opportunity to teach their own course and gain experience and expertise in leading university-level courses. The deadline to apply is Monday, August 29.

Whether you are just beginning to write your dissertation/thesis and wondering about formatting, or you are close to filing and need to know about policies such as copyrighting and embargoing, the Graduate Division has you covered.

The National Endowment for the Humanities recently announced that ​UCSB is one of 28 institutions to receive a Next Generation PhD Grant to ​help universities rethink how they prepare doctoral students for career paths outside ​the academy.