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Each year the Graduate Student Association (GSA) grants awards for Excellence in Teaching by graduate student TA's, as well as awards for service to the graduate student community. These are the GSA Excellence in Teaching Award (ETA) and the Dixon-Levy GSA Service Award. The calls for nominations are now open and will end on February 28, 2021. You may nominate yourself! Read on to learn more about the awards.

The Art of Science initiative invites current UCSB undergraduates, graduate students, and postdocs to tell the story of their research through the aesthetic. The competition is open until February 22, 2021. Click to learn more!

Interested in a career beyond the academy, and want to learn more about the essentials of crafting it? Read on for a message from the Beyond the Professoriate team about a new free assessment tool designed to help PhDs find a successful career outside of academia!

Read on for tips from the National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity (NCFDD)--an independent professional development, training, and mentoring community--about strategies to help you plan for success this quarter. Membership in the NCFDD (free for UCSB students!) provides several forms of professional support to help combat common problems academics face. Read on to learn more!

Join the Resource Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity (RCSGD) on February 12th for a conversation on how to improve Queer and Trans experience in grad-school and in UCSB in general. Where would you like the RCSGD to invest more effort? What are key topics that you would like to address in priority? Your experience and your opinion matter!

Read on to view the Black History Month Calendar, which showcases events across departments and organizations on campus!

Now is the time for faculty to nominate graduate students for the Lancaster Dissertation Awards! This annual award recognizes two individuals who have completed dissertations deemed by the Awards Committee as having significant impact on the field in terms of methodological and substantive contributions. This year two awards will be given to doctoral degree recipients or candidates from Biological and Life Sciences and Humanities and Fine Arts. To be eligible for this year’s competition, dissertations need to have been completed between July 1st, 2019, and June 30th, 2021. All nominations must be submitted by April 2, 2021. Read on to learn more!

The UC Love Data Week (February 8-12, 2021) is a week-long offering of free presentations, demos, and workshops focused on data access, management, security, sharing, and preservation. To date, there are a total of 28 activities confirmed. All members of the University of California community are welcome to attend. Read on to learn more!

Join this special Graduate Student Community Check-In hosted by fellow grad students on Thursday, February 18th at 4 pm. This is a space to share updates on how you are doing, discuss challenges you are facing, and explore how we can best support each other. RSVP today!

Grad students, need help managing your research? UCSB Library is offering a workshop on Zotero, a popular open source citation manager. Learn how Zotero can help you efficiently collect and organize your research, create bibliographies, collaborate with your colleagues, streamline your research process, and more. This workshop will be offered twice in February. Sign up today to reserve your spot.

UCSB graduate students and postdocs are invited to join us again for a new career development course! It is free of charge and will help you explore alternative careers to academia. This is essentially a “career class” where you will get individualized feedback, insider information on how to best sell your skills and network with the right people. This free 6-week course runs from Feb 15 - April 2 and is self-paced, asynchronous, engaging, and will help hold you accountable for you to finally make progress on your career goals. Apply by February 10!

Join Erik Williams, OISS' International Student Programs Coordinator, and Ranjani Atur, Graduate Funding Peer Advisor, for an open-ended workshop where you can get all your questions about visas and funding answered.

Doing your taxes? Sign up now for our financial literacy workshop on February 17th to learn about resources, credits, and deductions for graduate students. Read on to learn more!

Are you interested in being an educator at an independent school in SoCal? Register for the Third Annual Southern California Diversity Recruiting Fair! Nearly 50 independent schools in Los Angeles and 2 placement organizations are participating this year. Last day to register is Friday, February 5, 2021.

Have you been meaning to update your resume but don't have the time? Do you want to learn how to stand out from the crowd? Join us for this online workshop on February 16th to learn tips and techniques that will help you craft and strategically target your resume. Use the time to actually workshop and update your resume with expert help.