For 2016-17, monthly graduate student rental rates will be set at 20% below the current year’s rates. The rent for a room in a two bedroom apartment will be $874 per month and the rent for a room in a four bedroom apartment will be $764.
Read more about the article "Reduction in rental cost for the San Clemente Village Apartments beginning 2016-17"
Join CNSI's Professional Development Series for a webinar with Cal Newport on the value of deep work and practical suggestions for cultivating this skill.
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Graduate Career Consultant Lana Smith-Hale will host an information session and tutorial on how you can envision, prepare for, and excel in a non-academic career using the tools provided by Versatile Ph.D.
Read more about the article "Start your job search here: Versatile Ph.D. information session on May 3"
Professors Judith Green (Education) and Tevfik Bultan (Computer Science) received Outstanding Graduate Mentor Awards from the Academic Senate. They were among 11 faculty members and graduate student teaching assistants to receive honors.
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The MultiCultural Center (MCC) invites you to a performance by Jojo Abot, known as an "Afro-Hypno-Sonic" singer.
Read more about the article "An evening of experimental afrobeats on April 29 "
The Graduate Students for Diversity in Science are presenting two talks for the Spring Distinguished Lecture Series, featuring Dr. Caroline Ajo-Franklin from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
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The Entrepreneurs Association is hosting the first-ever Startup Symposium with over 15 Santa Barbara startups looking to hire graduate and undergraduate students of all disciplines ASAP.
Read more about the article "Check out the Startup Symposium on May 4"
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.
Read more about the article "Workshop on April 27: How to write an effective introduction or problem statement"
Dr. Walter Kohn, founding director of UC Santa Barbara’s Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics and 1998 winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his development of the density functional theory, has died.
Read more about the article "UCSB Nobel laureate, Kavli founder Walter Kohn dies"
Voting closes today at 4 p.m. and we need at least 20% of all graduate students to participate in the election to be able to pass the measures on the ballot.
Read more about the article "Final day to vote in campus elections is today: Need 20% grad participation!"
Check out this exhibition in the library's Interdisciplinary Research Collaboratory that presents a visual exploration of trends in data, culture, and aesthetics created by an interdisciplinary group of six UCSB grad students in the Department of Film and Media Studies.
Read more about the article "Library invites grad students to ‘Visual Provocations’ exhibition and reception"
The Bren School of Environmental Science & Management's 2016 Master's Projects will be presented to the public on Friday, April 29, at The Fess Parker Hotel.
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UCSB has crowned its campus Grad Slam champion, and now our own Nicole Leung is off to participate in the UC-wide competition up in San Francisco! Find out how you can watch the event this Friday.
Read more about the article "Tune in to watch live-stream of UC Grad Slam on April 22"
Whether you are on the job market or just starting to explore career paths, the Beyond Academia conference is here to help! This annual conference aims to prepare UCSB graduate students and postdoctoral researchers in all stages and disciplines to pursue a wide range of career options.
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Prof. Moustafa Bayoumi will examine the ways the media, law, and politics mutually reinforce each other in viewing Muslims as potentially dangerous outsiders.
Read more about the article "MCC talk on Islamaphobia and countercultures of resistance"