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Join your fellow international student peers for a fun potluck event sponsored by WGSE Women’s Center. Bring your favorite dish to share with your new friends.

Sign up for the Ph.D. & Master's Virtual Career Fair to interact in real-time with top-notch employers exclusively seeking candidates with advanced degrees. Free to Ph.D.s, Master's, postdocs, and alumni.

Many Ph.D. students feel that their degree will be their main qualification when they enter the non-academic job market, but having relevant job experience is just as important. This workshop will cover how to pursue relevant work experience alongside your graduate work.

During an interview, you need to be confident, articulate, and able to quickly think on your feet. Luckily, these are skills that you can practice in advance. Instead of freaking out the week before your interview, ​join us on February 24 to get a leg up on the competition.

Attention UCSB faculty, now is the time to nominate students for special distinctions related to graduate student commencement! The deadline for both of these opportunities is April 12, 2017.

Are you interested in a career in college and university teaching? Do you want to improve your teaching and gain valuable pedagogical insight and training? Then sign up for the ​first-ever course offering from the UCSB Graduate Division!

​Are you in need of some centering and strength in the midst of a crazy quarter? Join your fellow grads for a free yoga event sponsored by Health & Wellness. The first six guests will also receive a free mat!

The FAFSA Deadline for 2017-2018 funding support is March 2, 2017, which is just a few weeks away. US graduate students interested in grants or loans via the federal government or through UC/UCSB will need to complete a FAFSA application for funding for the upcoming academic year.

Attention Grad Slam participants! Want to get a leg up on the competition? Join us for an interactive 2-hour workshop designed to help you boil down the basic ideas of your research, ​package them in an accessible way, and ​present them​ confidently and concisely.

At this event, Black graduate students, as well as some undergraduates, will present research projects with which they are involved here at UCSB. Entertainment will even be provided by some students as they demonstrate their creative abilities as well.

Don't miss the opportunity to win fame and fortune! The deadline to register for the 2017 Grad Slam competition has been extended until Wednesday, February 15, at 5 p.m.

Led by Kevin Moore of the UCSB Writing Program, this workshop will explore the all-too-familiar "writer's block," including the myths and realities of writer's block, what causes it, ​and ​effective strategies to manage and ​get beyond block as science writers.

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

Videos are one of the most powerful and popular tools to share information, so why not make one ​about your research? This workshop led by Jai Ranganathan ​​will teach you how to produce videos with compelling storylines about your research. All you need is a smartphone!

The UCSB Multicultural Center will screen "Latino: The Changing Face of America" by writer and director Roxanne Frias, who wanted to create a film that acknowledges the important role Latinos have played in U.S. history while also not being embraced by America like previous immigrants.