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UCSB has recently established a multi-disciplinary team to assist students who are experiencing a financial crisis. If you are experiencing an urgent financial crisis, email the Financial Crisis Response Team who will help you develop a plan of action.

This opportunity is for application by a faculty/principal investigator for $120,000 in funding to appoint and support a Postdoctoral Fellow in environmental chemistry. Deadline is August 1, 2017

Application deadlines are now announced for the 2018 Ford Foundation Fellowship cohort. Review details regarding predoctoral, dissertation, and postdoctoral fellowships opportunities.

Are you working on a project that you want to bring to market in the near future? Consider applying for the NSF National I-Corps Program that could provide you $50,000 in funding. There will be two ZAP trainings on May 26 and June 2.

Insight offers intensive and tuition-free trainings across the country in the fields of data science, data engineering, health data, or artificial intelligence leading to full-time industry employment.

The Lindros Award is a one-year grant of $10,000 for a proposal translating research into medical practice. Graduate students and post-doctoral scholars are welcome to apply. Deadline is June 16, 2017.

Join us for the ​final Lunch & Learn event of the quarter, featuring talks by graduate students in ​​Music and Environmental Science & Management who will both be focusing on games, which is sure to be a lot of fun! Grab free lunch and socialize with your fellow grads.

Join the Office of Research in their Seminar Series on research ethics to learn some of the challenges researchers face with peer review and authorship and how to overcome these obstacles.

Join us for another Resilient Love in a Time of Hate series event. In memory of the Isla Vista Tragedy, a panel of speakers will discuss the ways in which the Isla Vista and UCSB community come together and engage in collective healing.

Want to capture the reader's attention and encapsulate your research concisely? Learn how at the Introduction and Problem Statement workshop led by Writing Peer Kyle Crocco.

Do you know an incoming Ph.D. student that could benefit from a 13-day intensive training workshop in oral academic English? We encourage you to submit a recommendation by June 2 for non-native speakers of English. The workshop is limited to 15 participants.

Join Instructional Development at the Teaching & Learning Excellence Series: TALES Live!, on May 22. Dr. ​Salim Yaqub from the History Department will discuss the importance of empathy and how to help students gain a more rounded understanding of controversial issues.

The organizing committee is now recruiting graduate students and postdocs to join the team for next year’s conference, where you can have the opportunity to develop transferable skills that are ​valuable to careers both inside and outside of the academy.

UCSB's Black Graduate Student Association is hosting the 2017 Black Summit, a day of collective care and community on Friday, May 19, from noon to 5 p.m. in the Multicultural Center Theater. This event is free to attend.

Interested in helping TAs improve their teaching? Instructional Development is now seeking a TA Development Program (TADP) Coordinator for the 2017-2018 academic year. This position is a 49% time Ph.D. position.