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The Interdisciplinary Research Collaboratory is pleased to announce its offerings of data and software workshops for the month of April 2022. These workshops are free and open to UCSB affiliates, including students, researchers, staff, and faculty. Read on for details on workshop topics and registration links.

UCSB graduate students, postdocs, and recent alumni can now register for Beyond Academia 2022 panels and workshops on Shoreline! This week-long conference will run from April 11-16. The Beyond Academia conference, organized by a team of UCSB grads, provides opportunities for graduate students and postdoctoral scholars to learn about career options alongside and outside of academia.

UCSB's Student Mental Health Coordination Services, in conjunction with the Office of Instructional Development, is offering a virtual workshop on April 6 from 3-4:15pm for all TAs: "Responding to Distressed & Distressing Students." Read on for more information and registration info.

Check out the Spring 2022 events and workshops offered by the Graduate Student Resource Center! Don't miss your chance to get plugged in to our ongoing professional development programming – from navigating taxes, to interview strategies, to writing fellowship applications, and much more. ​Mark your calendars and visit our Shoreline page for updated information as events get closer.

Spring Quarter usually marks the end of the academic year, but finding funding is a continuous process! Check out this sample of upcoming deadlines of funding opportunities for postdoctoral, doctoral, graduate, research, and other short-term awards or travel grants. Various deadlines listed. Consult websites for current details and application information.

Winter quarter is near its end, which means the CSEP-PDS team is starting to plan for the Spring. They would like to include you in this process, to help ensure that they can deliver content and workshops that you desire. The team has created a short survey which will help them better understand your preferences. Everyone who completes the survey will be entered into a free book raffle.

Are you a STEM graduate student who wants to improve their communication skills? There is still room in Writing 259, "Science Communication," which is offered this Spring. Read on for more information.

Join the Chemical Engineering Graduate Student Association on Tuesday, March 22nd at 2:30pm in Engineering II 3301 for a presentation by Chemical Engineering graduate student Varun Hedge of the Doherty and Squires Group. This event is open to all graduate students and postdocs. Light refreshments will be served.

The Art of Science initiative invites current UCSB undergraduates, graduate students, and postdocs to tell the story of their research through the aesthetic. Cast your vote for the winning entries by March 20!

Apply for NIJ’s Graduate Research Fellowship. By supporting outstanding graduate research, NIJ is expanding the future pool of young investigators whose work has the potential to affect issues of crime and the fair and impartial administration of criminal and juvenile justice in the United States.

The UCSB Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies and the UCSB IHC Research Focus Group “What Is a Shakespeare?: Shakespeare and Global Media” are collaborating to host a virtual conference: "Global Snapshot: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Media, Performativity, and Global Communities." The conference features Keynote Speakers Dr. Peter Eckersall and Dr. Ambereen Dadabhoy, and will run on May 14 and 15. Abstracts are due April 1.

Beyond the Professoriate is offering a free webinar: "Leaving academia? Here's what you need to prepare." All graduate students and PhDs are invited to join L. Maren Wood, PhD (Founder of Beyond the Professoriate) for this interactive webinar so that you can be confident in your decision and knowledgeable about the steps you need to take. This month's webinar will run on March 25 at 9am.

The UCSB Women's Center is now accepting abstracts for its upcoming graduate student conference, "Feminist Pedagogies," which will run on Saturday, May 22. Read on for more information about the conference, and for the CFP. Abstracts are due on March 31.

The 10th annual ComSciCon Flagship Workshop will take place on August 4-6, 2022 in Cambridge, MA. ComSciCon provides graduate student attendees with a one-of-a-kind opportunity to meet early career leaders in science communication while also learning from and interacting with a remarkable group of invited experts. Applications are due on April 1.

With his winning three-minute talk, “The Early Bird Gets the Worm, but the Second Mouse Gets the Cheese: What Simple Organisms Can Teach Us about Our Daily Rhythms," Geoff Meyerhof, a graduate student in Biomolecular Science & Engineering, took the Grad Slam 2022 championship. He will now go forward to represent UCSB at the UC-wide Grad Slam, which will be livestreamed from the LinkedIn headquarters on May 6. Read on for more about the Final Round of UCSB Grad Slam 2022!