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The Fulbright U.S. Student Program is a highly competitive international educational exchange program sponsored by the U.S. government and is designed to increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries. In the 2020-21 award cycle, 21 students applied from UCSB, 4 were selected as finalists, 5 were selected as alternates, and 4 were selected as semi-finalists. Congratulations to these outstanding students!

During a time of enormous uncertainty and loss, the MCC would like to offer BIPOC graduate students of UCSB a moment of pause and collective care. Join yoga psychotherapist Kala Lacy on May 6th at 11am for a guided meditation and conversation about grief and the importance of creating time for grief in community and social movement spaces. RSVP for the Zoom link!

Reduce your anxiety about finances by attending this workshop on May 19 to learn basic terminology, tools, and plans for budgeting. Leave with tools to create a plan on how to manage your graduate income. RVSP today!

Are you feeling like this just wasn't the year to be truly productive? Are you hoping to turn things around with your writing this summer? Read on for tips from the National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity (NCFDD), an independent professional development, training, and mentoring community. Membership (free for UCSB students!) provides several forms of professional support to help combat common problems academics face - find out more here.

The Schmidt Family Foundation, in partnership with the UCSB Graduate Division, is once again generously funding three types of awards and fellowships for research in the broad fields of ocean sciences, ecology, and environmental sciences to UCSB students. Awards are available to undergrads, grad students, and postgraduate scholars. Apply by May 15, 2020!

COVID-19 is having devastating consequences for graduate students’ financial, as well as mental and physical, wellbeing. We’ve all lost jobs, funding, rent, investments, and other kinds of financial security due to the necessities of quarantine, shelter-in-place, and social distancing. Here is a list of emergency funding resources available to graduate students at UCSB.

The Graduate Writers' Room is ​BACK on Tuesdays from 9am-12pm on Zoom to help you stay accountable Spring quarter. You only need to sign up once to have access for the whole quarter! Read on for more info or to RSVP for the recurrent Zoom link.

The Graduate Writers' Room is ​BACK on Tuesdays from 9am-12pm on Zoom to help you stay accountable Spring quarter. You only need to sign up once to have access for the whole quarter! Read on for more info or to RSVP for the recurrent Zoom link.

The Graduate Writers' Room is ​BACK on Tuesdays from 9am-12pm on Zoom to help you stay accountable Spring quarter. You only need to sign up once to have access for the whole quarter! Read on for more info or to RSVP for the recurrent Zoom link.

The Graduate Writers' Room is ​BACK on Tuesdays from 9am-12pm on Zoom to help you stay accountable Spring quarter. You only need to sign up once to have access for the whole quarter! Read on for more info or to RSVP for the recurrent Zoom link.

The Graduate Writers' Room is ​BACK on Tuesdays from 9am-12pm on Zoom to help you stay accountable Spring quarter. You only need to sign up once to have access for the whole quarter! Read on for more info or to RSVP for the recurrent Zoom link.

Do you have an upcoming dissertation defense that's been moved online? If so, check out this resource, Defending a Dissertation Online at the Time of COVID-19, written by Dr. Ashton Merck. This guide provides helpful tips for students on how to set up technology, troubleshooting, and notes for your committee to consider. Read on to access the guide.

Come sip coffee with other international grad students in this revolving, come-and-go-as-you-please socializing hour so we don't forget how to be humans in real life! RSVP for our May 12th session today.

This workshop on May 14 will teach participants what the various modes of revision are. From there, it will explore assorted comments students receive on their writing and connect those comments to the appropriate mode of revision. Finally, we will present strategies and exercises for how to engage each type of revision so that students can hone their revision skills. RSVP today!

The Multidisciplinary Postdoctoral Training Program in Basic Diabetes Research at the University of Michigan prepares PhD basic scientists for careers in diabetes research. The objective of this program is to provide the research experience and skills needed for postdoctoral scientists to gain a modern cellular, genetic, and molecular understanding of diabetes, and to set the foundation for a career in basic diabetes research. Deadline to apply is June 1, 2020.