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Applications are now open for the Graduate Student Internship Fellowship, which offers up to five $2,000-$2,500 scholarships annually to help graduate students explore career opportunities and gain valuable work experience while in school. Funds are awarded to students who demonstrate​ financial need as well as how their Summer or Fall 2020 work experience will be ​beneficial for their career trajectory. Applications are due by this Sunday, May 17th.

The fear and uncertainty surrounding the pandemic and being in quarantine away from friends and family can be overwhelming. Health & Wellness invites all grad students to join this May 20th workshop to learn how to use mindfulness practices to address these fears.

Nominations are open for two awards honoring graduate students who have distinguished themselves as mentors of undergraduates. Each of the six recipients will receive a $1,000 award. This year, there are important changes to the nomination process which should be reviewed carefully. The deadline to nominate is Monday, May 18, 2020.

Undocumented Student Services has a number of important resources available to support undocumented students at UCSB. Read on to learn more.

Don't miss the UC virtual career fairs! UCSB graduate students are invited to join 10 other University of California campuses for the first-ever Virtual Career Fair. Students from every major, discipline, and degree level will be participating in the career fairs in an exciting virtual setting. The STEM-focused Career Fair is on Tuesday, May 26th and the general Career Fair is on Wednesday, May 27th. Don't know what to expect from this virtual event? Check out our resources for how to prepare for the virtual career fair.

WriteNow Summer Session Beta is an online support platform designed to help keep grad students and postdocs accountable so that they can achieve their big academic milestones. Read on for more info about this program and how to sign up. Today is the last day to register!

In 1988, the late Mr. Karam Singh Maughan established an endowment to support graduate fellowships to be awarded to graduates or universities in a specific area of India and Pakistan for the purpose of pursuing graduate study at the University of California. Check your eligibility and submit your materials for consideration by May 15, 2020!

McKinsey and Co., one of the top consulting firms in the world, is hosting a series of diversity and inclusion webinars for prospective applicants. The series provides the opportunity for you to learn more about McKinsey and Co. as a firm and what they do, as well as get to know consultants and recruiters in each of their regions and practices. Read on to learn more about the webinars -- as well as a current job opening!

The MRCI Graduate Student Minigrant program supports research and creative projects by individual graduate students or teams of UCSB graduate students during the 2020 Summer Session that provide insight into COVID-19 and its impacts. The grant program encourages applications from a wide variety of disciplines to explore the many dimensions of impact. Read on for Frequently Asked Questions that can help with your proposal!

The Office of Black Student Development (OBSD) is seeking a Graduate Student Intern for the 2020-21 school year. Deadline to apply is May 29, 2020. Read on for more info!

Congratulations to this year's recipients of the Academic Senate Outstanding Teaching Awards! The winners are: An Bui (EEMB), Jordan J. Tudisco (Comparative Literature), Daniel Martini Tybjerg (Comparative Literature), and Stephenson Brooks Whitestone (Communication). Read on to learn more about this award!

This workshop is designed with BIPOC graduate students in mind. Please join us on Sunday, May 17 from 4-6pm. RSVP today!

Health and Wellness is offering a cooking class just for graduate students that will be focused on Asian cooking! Explore Asian cooking with a vegetarian twist as you try your hand at several different dishes on Zoom! ​Health & Wellness will have breakout room "stations" that participants will visit including Korean Tuna Pancakes, Fresh Spring Rolls, and Soba Noodle Salad. RSVP to receive the ingredients list!

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.

Join the MCC tomorrow evening for a Zoom workshop from the MCC's Empowering Student Leaders Series. Artist-healer Thea Monyee will lead a conversation about how to use the challenges of living through a pandemic to resurrect connections to ancestral, elder, and natural knowledge for survival and to thrive in the midst of a crisis.