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Save the Date: Graduate Student Appreciation Week
Mark you calendars now for Graduate Student Appreciation Week (GSAW). The week of April 23-27 will be full of events just for graduate students with free food, drinks, prizes, and more. Events include...
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Take the Career Preparation Survey
All current Phd students should have received an email earlier this week asking for feedback in the UCSB Graduate Student Career Preparation Survey. The survey only takes about 5 to 10 minutes to...
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Earning a Doctorate of Charm in One Day
Tying a tie. Eating salad. Shaking hands. Easy, right? Well, for some students at premier research university MIT, "correctly" completing these tasks can be a challenge. And since proper business...
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UC President Mark G. Yudof Shares UC Success Stories
Did you know that "every $1 that a California taxpayer invests in the University of California and its students results in $13.80 in overall economic output" (Tam, 2012)? University of California...
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Graduate Student Association’s Bagels Go Green With TGIF Grant
Our own Graduate Students Association has gone green, and is being rewarded for it. UCSB’s The Green Initiative Fund (TGIF) Grant Making Committee has announced its grant recipients for the 2011-12...
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Graduate Peers Are Here for You
The graduate peers are here to help you successfully navigate graduate student life at UCSB. Drop by the Graduate Student Resource Center (1st Floor of the Student Resource Building) to meet with the...
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Congratulations to our NSF Fellowship Recipients!
On behalf of the GradPost, we would like to congratulate the following continuing students for receiving the prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship: Tessa Dover,...
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UCSB Health & Wellness Pet Project Helps Students De-Stress
Photos by Patricia Marroquin You would have thought rock stars had descended on the campus. On a bright, sunny March day on the lawn outside the Student Resource Building, clusters of students formed...
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Deckers Wants Your Shoes in Drive to Collect 10,000 Pairs for Soles4Souls
Goleta-based Deckers has launched feet first into an ambitious charitable effort to collect 10,000 pairs of shoes to donate to the global nonprofit Soles4Souls, and it is seeking UCSB’s help to meet...
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UCSB Department Chairs Share Tips for Hiring Success
With a tough job market, it is important that you find a way to set yourself apart from other applicants when applying for faculty positions. I recently sent out an informal survey to the chairs of...
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UCSB’s Grad Division Welcomes New Retention Services Director
Photos by Patricia Marroquin Whitney Winn’s experience in funding research, workshop organizing, library science, and media helped pave the way for her new role as the Graduate Division’s Retention...
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UCSB Grad Students Discuss Research During Sacramento Advocacy Day
From left, Allison Horst, Das Williams, and Lindsay Palmer Allison Horst was destined to be a graduate researcher in California. As a child growing up in San Luis Obispo County, she loved science and...
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Advice from Department Chairs: The Ideal Faculty Candidate
In the article, “Department Chairs Share Tips for Hiring Success,” I asked department chairs from around campus to provide advice about finding faculty positions and I discovered that having multiple...
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Featured Student: Julie Antilla
Julie Antilla, a doctoral student in the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education (GGSE), is a dedicated student, researcher, mother, and wife. As the youngest of eight kids, Julie was the first in her...
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GSA Elections Voting Guide
It’s election week at UCSB, so we wanted to give you the inside scoop on the ballot and the voting process. For graduate students, the primary focus is on the Graduate Students Association officers. As...
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GSA Write-In Candidate: Marcel Brousseau
Marcel Brousseau has declared his intention to be a write-in candidate this week for Graduate Students Association Vice President of Internal Affairs. He is asking for graduate students' votes as a...
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UC Center for New Racial Studies' Activist and Scholarship Symposium
I recently found out about a wonderful educational and networking event being held here at UCSB. The UC Center for New Racial Studies is co-sponsoring an event with the department of Chicana/o Studies...
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GSA Klean Kanteen Logo Design Competition
Want to share your art with graduate students? If you are passionate about design or are interested in becoming a part of UCSB GSA history, then you should definitely enter the GSA TGIF logo contest....
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Summer Teaching Institute for Associates
All graduate students working as Summer Teaching Associates are invited to join the Summer Teaching Institute for Associates. This pre-summer program will provide assistance in planning and conducting...
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