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Get a quick glance at upcoming deadlines for summer and a head start for the fall. Various opportunities listed to include a sampling of postdoctoral announcements, dissertation fellowships, research funding, and awards competitions.

The Graduate Simulation Seminar Series (GS^3) is back for Summer 2020! They are offering a 10-week seminar program featuring talks from a diverse set of graduate students and/or postdocs who use simulation in their research, representing a wide swath of academic disciplines across UCSB. Interested in presenting? The best presentations by graduate students and postdocs will be awarded prizes. Read on for more info about the series and how you can present.

Live chat a movie with us! Join us on Friday, June 26th at 7 p.m. We will be watching The Half of It on Netflix and chatting along to create a feeling of almost being together.

Interested in a career beyond the academy, and want to learn more about the essentials of crafting it? Join these professional development webinars from Beyond the Professoriate for a jump start. They are free to join and also available to watch on replays. Advance registration is required.

Dr. Carlos Nash, UCSB's Director of Graduate Diversity Programs, is hosting coffee breaks via Zoom every Wednesday of Summer Quarter at 9am. The breaks are a virtual offering open to all graduate students to replace his weekly outreach meeting with graduate students at GSA’s Wednesday Bagel Hour. All topics are welcome.

Still looking for funding? Or planning ahead for 2020-2021? Attend the next Finding Funding Workshop on June 23 and learn about campus and external funding.

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 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.

The Graduate Division is excited to welcome our new Graduate Programming Assistant, Chava Nerenberg. She will be working closely with the staff of the Graduate Student Resource Center on programming and initiatives that support our campus' graduate students. Read on to find out more about Chava!

UC Santa Barbara's ​Office of Instructional Consultation is hiring an Instructional Media Designer. This position is paid as an hourly Student Assistant appointment at $21/hour. Position requires at least 10 hours/week through Summer and Fall quarters. Apply today!

Beyond the Professoriate recently hosted its 7th annual career conference for PhD students. UCSB's Individualized Professional Skills (IPS) Program provided grants for both graduate students and postdocs to attend this important conference. Read on to learn about their experiences!

The Graduate Division would like to congratulate our Professional Development Peer Advisor, Daina Tagavi, for matching to the University of Washington's Psychology Internship Program. Daina will be completing the Autism and Developmental Disabilities track, where she will be working with children with autism spectrum disorders, other neurodevelopment disorders, and other co-occuring disorders in both an inpatient and outpatient setting. Read on to learn more!

The Graduate Division would like to congratulate our Funding Peer Advisor, Kaitlyn Ugoretz, for receiving two prestigious fellowships: the Japan Foundation's Doctoral Research Fellowship and the Social Science Research Council's International Dissertation Research Fellowship (SSRC-IDRF). Kaitlyn will be donating her fellowship application materials to the GSRC's fellowship library. Read on to learn more!

Free seminar on Navigating Pandemic‐related Visa and Other Challenges Faced by International Students and Postdoctoral Scholars. Co‐sponsored by the National Postdoctoral Association (NPA) and the American Psychological Association (APA) - signup today for the seminar taking place tomorrow, Thursday the 11th.

Designed to create the data scientists of tomorrow from qualified STEM academics, this full-time, eight-week program provides the skills needed to succeed in the “best job in America.” 82% of ​their students are employed within 6 months of completing the program. Learn more and apply today!

A UC Santa Barbara graduate alumni shared that their employer, ServiceTitan, is looking to hire qualified UCSB graduate students. ServiceTitan is ​an all-in-one software for commercial and residential HVAC, plumbing, electrical, and other field service businesses. Read on for more info!