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The 5th Annual Grad Slam competition starts in just one week! Each preliminary round features a People's Choice component, where audience members select their favorite presenter to advance to the next round, so be sure to come out and support your colleagues.

From big events to job search strategies to writing support – the Graduate Student Resource Center is here to help you make the spring quarter a success. Check out an overview of our upcoming events!

On March 4, UCSB Crossroads held an interactive event to re-introduce the campus to this interdisciplinary research program and share ideas about ways to improve the program moving forward. The call for Crossroads project proposals is now open through May 19.

The UCSB Art, Design, & Architecture Museum and the Library present a talk on John Wesley Gilbert, the first African American to attend the fledgling American School of Classical Studies at Athens.

Do you ever wish you could talk with employers who only want to speak with graduate students? Well now is your chance! Join us for the first-ever Graduate Student Career Mixer to connect with employers specifically seeking to recruit graduate students and junior scholars for job and internship opportunities.

Join the Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in STEM (SACNAS), the Center for Science and Engineering Partnerships (CSEP), and Procore for a panel of industry professionals followed by a wine mixer on Friday, April 7.

Nominations are now open for two awards honoring graduate students who have distinguished themselves as mentors of undergraduates. Nominations may come from academic and research units as well as individual faculty. The nomination deadline is Friday, April 28.

Is your thesis Prize-worthy? For the fifth year in a row, the Science and SciLifeLab Prize for Young Scientists ​is offering four recent Ph.D.s a career-making opportunity. Could you be one of them?

If you're staying in town for the break, you can still access many of the services at Student Health, and all students have access to the 24-hour Nurse Line for any medical questions or concerns.

Join Doug Bradley from the UCSB Writing Program for a spring quarter course on Science Communication (Writing 259). This course provides students within STEM disciplines a foundation in science communication practices that explain, persuade, describe, and entertain.

Looking for a job next year? UCSB is seeking up to four Graduate Student Assistants for a new undergraduate student success program focused on underrepresented minority and low-income students.

With thousands of votes and 50 submissions, the fourth annual "Art of Science" competition was the largest yet. Join for a reception on Wednesday, March 15, where the 2017 winners will be announced!

Social activist, writer, and editor Gloria Steinem delivered a rousing talk at the Arlington Theatre on March 2, courtesy of UCSB Arts & Lectures. Read about her three most effective strategies for social activism.

This new program aims to encourage cooperation among promising young French and American researchers. Up to nine Franco-American projects will be selected. Each selected project will receive a maximum of $20,000 over a period of two years. Deadline is April 9.

We sat down with Rosie Bermudez to discuss how her personal experience inspired her research on activist Alicia Escalante, the importance of diversity in graduate education, and what she hopes to accomplish after receiving her Ph.D.