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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.

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.