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The Residency Unit of the Office of the Registrar will be holding a live Zoom training session to discuss the Temporary Amendment to UC Residency and Policy Guidelines and further information on the residency reclassification process for continuing graduate students. This training will take place on Thursday, July 15 at 9 am. Read on to learn more and to RSVP!

Eddleman Center for Quantum Innovation (ECQI) at UCSB is excited to announce the new Art of Quantum competition! This competition invites quantum scientists and engineers in the US to share the beauty they see in quantum research, the creativity that goes into experiments, and the emotions of discovery through art images and captions. Attend a caption-writing workshop on July 15 from 4-5 pm to perfect your entry and submit your application by July 25. Read on to learn more!

Starting this week, the GradPost will be migrating to a new service (Follow.It) that will deliver the daily digest emails of all of our content. We are excited to be able to bring you a more stable and customizable way to engage with all of our content that is curated just for grad students and postdocs. Read on to learn more and sign up today!

Do you know what a diversity statement is? How does diversity fit into your academic goals? This workshop on July 21st will explore diversity statements: what they are, what they look like, and how to make yours relevant to who you are. Join us and learn how to write about yourself, your research, and your teaching in relation to diversity!

The Graduate Division is excited to welcome our new ​Diversity & Outreach Peer Advisor, ​Yvette Ramirez. Yvette will work to create representative spaces for historically underserved student populations. Read on to find out more about ​​Yvette!

Join us for Lunch & Learn, where you'll have the chance to socialize with other grad students and hear talks by students in Physics and East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies. While we won't be able to share pizza in person, all attendees will be entered into a raffle to win a $15 Target gift card.

You are almost there! The hiring committee thinks you are an accomplished scholar with an impressive career trajectory and commitment to diversity. But this is a teaching-heavy position and they want to know: are you also a wonderful presence in the classroom? This workshop on July 14th will explore teaching philosophies and how to make yours shine!

As part of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, the Graduate Division will provide 50 summer stipends of $7,000 to doctoral students whose research and progress toward the completion of their degrees were severely impacted by the global pandemic. You are eligible for this program if you are currently registered in a UCSB doctoral program and experienced demonstrable delays in research and/or academic progress due to the global pandemic. Priority will be given to advanced doctoral students. Submit an application by Friday, July 9 to be considered!

Congratulations to MacKenzie Wade (Anthropology) and Mariah Miller (Global Studies), winners of the Crossroads 2.0 Course Proposal competition. Their course, titled “Alternative Foods, Alternative Economies: Creative Collaborations to Reimagine the Food System" will be offered in the College of Creative Studies during the 2021-22 academic year. Read on to learn more!

Join us for part 2 of our 3-part Grad Student Career Bootcamp Summer Series on Tuesday, July 13. A cover letter or interest letter is a perfect way to present yourself and experience in a way that connects with potential employers. But it is easier said than done. This workshop will highlight techniques to help you expertly craft and strategically target your letters.

Reduce your anxiety about finances by attending this workshop on July 12th to learn basic terminology, tools, and plans for budgeting. Leave with tools to create a plan on how to manage your graduate income. RSVP today!

Graduate students, staff, and faculty are invited to join Health and Wellness, Student Leadership and Engagement, and CAPS for the Well-being Summer Book Club! Join to explore how to “find your people, create community, and live a more connected life.” The club will meet Tuesdays, starting 6/29, from 6:30-7:30pm. Read on for more information!

The National Science Foundation (NSF) is now offering supplemental funding for postdoctoral researchers to mitigate the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on STEM research and development. Apply by December 31, 2021!

The Graduate Division is pleased to announce the ​winners for two awards ​honoring graduate students who have distinguished themselves in the area of undergraduate research supervision: Elliott Ihm, Ryan Lach, Chelsea Edwards, Elizabeth Agey, Corinna Klein, and Valerie Meier. Read on to find out more about our awardees!

The Engaging Teaching Symposium provides a space to reflect on teaching over the past year: what you tried, what “worked” or “didn’t work,” and how it might inform your teaching in the upcoming quarters. The symposium will take place on Wednesdays and Fridays from October 6-11, 2021. Submissions are now being accepted for roundtables, 30-minute workshops, and poster sessions. Submit an abstract by June 30. Read on to learn more!