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Start your academic year off right with our first Lunch & Learn event of the fall quarter, featuring talks by graduate students in Linguistics and Electrical & Computer Engineering. Come enjoy free lunch and a chance to socialize with and learn from graduate students across the campus.

The Family Ultimate Science Exploration (FUSE) is now seeking graduate and postdoc volunteers for their science education program.

If you want to ​stay informed of what's going on this week and every week, check out these links for fun and useful events going on at UCSB.

To help you get started in social media research, the UCSB Library's Interdisciplinary Research Collaboratory is offering a series of four workshops during Fall 2016 to provide an orientation to tools, techniques, and considerations for working with Twitter data.

CAPS currently has 1-2 spots for graduate students interested in joining their process groups, which are designed for students who want to explore ways to build intimacy, work on the interpersonal aspects of anxiety and depression, and become more aware of their actions and communication styles.

The Graduate Division, in partnership with the Division of Student Affairs, is currently accepting applications for a new position, the International Peer Advisor, to begin employment in Fall 2016 and run through Spring 2017. The priority application deadline is Tuesday, October 11.

What if you had the opportunity to talk about your research any way you wanted to? What is it about your research that motivates you to get up every morning (even on weekends) and go in to the lab, the library, or your field site? At Lunch & Learn, we want to know!

Whether you’re finishing revisions on your dissertation or writing your first seminar paper, come write alongside your fellow grad students in the Graduate Writers' Room!

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.

Health & Wellness will be offering free 10​-minute chair massages in the GSA Lounge on Wednesday, October 5, from 12:30-3:30 p.m.

Are you one of those people that has a pretty clear sense of what you don’t want in a job but have a hard time figuring out what you do want? This workshop will cover how the career development process can help you figure out the next steps to finding a career that’s right for you!

As part of its fall series on preparing for the academic job market, the Graduate ​Student Resource Center will host a workshop on crafting a compelling CV for academic positions.

The Graduate Division is committed to providing quality programming to graduate students, and we have a lot in store for this academic year! Check out our programming overview and make a point to set aside time for your own professional development this year.

The TA Development Program is ​now accepting applications for their 2016-17 TA Video Consultant positions. TA Video Consultants serve as peer consultants to Teaching Assistants (TAs) in a spectrum of UCSB departments.

The UCSB Student Health Center will be offering flu shots at their upcoming Flu Shot Clinics, starting September 30. It's free with your Gaucho Health Insurance (GHI) or it costs $30 without GHI.