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On September 27, the Graduate Division hosted dozens of new graduate students, faculty, and administrators at UCSB’s first-ever Diversity Matters reception, welcoming what has been described as UCSB’s most diverse class of graduate students ever.

Promoting Student Mental Health: A Guide for UC Faculty and Staff provides mental health education and steps on how to properly support students' mental well-being.

For those doing research overseas, the Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC) offers research fellowships to doctoral candidates, postdoctoral scholars, and independent scholars all year round. Various fellowships applications open now with deadlines of Jan 2017 - Feb 2017.

This workshop will help you identify and talk about the valuable transferable skills that you develop in graduate school and how you can apply those skills in a career beyond academia.

A panel of faculty and students will provide insight on the Ford Foundation Fellowship Program application process at an information session. The Ford Foundation offers prestigious fellowships designed to increase the diversity of the nation’s college and university faculties.

Meet the new Graduate Career Peer Erik Martinez! He is a Master's student at the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management and he is here to support his fellow graduate students in their career development.

The Graduate Student Resource Center is hosting a workshop on writing a​ diversity statement for an academic position. The workshop is open to all UCSB graduate students and postdocs.

As a means of increasing the number of U.S. citizens and nationals trained in science and engineering disciplines of military importance, the Department of Defense (DoD) plans to award approximately 180 new three-year graduate fellowships. Deadline is December 9.

The purpose of the George Bennett Fellowship is to provide time and freedom from material considerations to a person seriously contemplating or pursuing a career as a writer. The deadline to apply is November 30.

Join us for an informational session with Melodie Blakemore, Senior Research Integrity Specialist from the Office of Research, who will tell you what you need to know when preparing your human subjects protocol and will answer your questions about the process.

Check out Instructional Development's lineup of workshops aimed at supporting graduate student Teaching Assistants and Teaching Associates. Each session is limited to 10 participants, so be sure to RSVP soon!

Learn more about an 8-week data science fellowship that prepares master's students, Ph.D.s, and postdocs in STEM and social science fields seeking industry careers as data scientists.

Come to a lecture that explores how ethno-racial communities and women's groups can use elections to build power!

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 Harry Ransom Center, an internationally renowned humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin, invites applications for its 2017-2018 research fellowships. Deadline is November 15.