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| Dear Gaucho Grad Student:
We hope you are enjoying your summer. With Commencement behind us, the staffs at the Graduate Student Resource Center and the Graduate Division are hard at work planning for the new academic year. New this summer is a "Dissertation Writer's Room" we have opened in the Student Resource Building. This quiet, comfortable, and light-filled space in a downstairs meeting room in the SRB is the perfect place to work on your dissertation. Coffee, water, and snacks are provided. We hope you will take advantage of this great free resource offered to you through Sept. 19. ... The Graduate Student Resource Center would like to welcome Shawn Warner-Garcia, our new Professional Development Peer Advisor. Shawn is a doctoral student in the Linguistics Department with interdisciplinary emphases in Feminist Studies; Applied Linguistics; and Language, Interaction, and Social Organization. Shawn will be organizing workshops and meeting with students one-on-one to help them achieve their professional goals, as well as writing for the GradPost. You can also see Shawn this summer manning the Dissertation Writer's Room. ... Grad students, please keep in touch with us. Subscribe to the GradPost newsfeed, follow us on Twitter, and "like" our GradPost Facebook page to keep informed. ... Our Graduate Student Resource Center staff members (Coordinator of Graduate Student Professional Development Robert Hamm; Communications Director Patricia Marroquin; Institutional Research Senior Analyst Francisco Herrera; Diversity and Outreach Peer Hala Sun; Funding Peer Kyle Crocco; Professional Development Peer Shawn Warner-Garcia; and Writing Peer Ryan Dippre) are here to help.
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|  | Nearly 500 students were conferred degrees at Graduate Division's and Bren School's Commencement ceremonies. Credit: Patricia Marroquin |
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Milestone Commencement Celebrations
Academic achievements, excellence, and milestones were marked during both Graduate Division's and Bren School's Commencement ceremonies in June. At the Graduate Division ceremony, the first Feminist Studies Ph.D. degree was conferred. And at Bren School's Commencement, the 1,000th degree was conferred. For wrap-ups on both ceremonies, and to view photos, read our Graduate Division Commencement and Bren School Commencement articles on the GradPost. Congratulations to all of our 2014 graduates!
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| People in the News
Our People in the News this month range from biotech entrepreneurs to a beauty queen; and a marine science researcher to an "Outrageous Acts of Science" TV host. Read our profiles and features on these accomplished graduate students and alumni.- James Allen: The Grand Prize winner of the 2014 Grad Slam is conducting research that has the potential to transform how ocean ecosystems are studied.
- Leah Kuritzky: This Materials Ph.D. student aims to change the world of lighting as we know it forever.
- Kara Smoot: The Music master's student and former Miss Ventura County, who can sing in eight languages, could just be the next Miss California.
- Mike North: Find out why Graduate Division's Commencement guest speaker, a UCSB Ph.D. alum, is known as the "Indiana Jones of Technology."
- Lucile Savary: Graduate Division's 2014 student Commencement speaker, who is an international student from France, shares how she ended up studying theoretical physics at UCSB.
- Carly Thomsen: The grad student is the first in her discipline to receive a Ph.D. in Feminist Studies from UCSB.
- Miguel de Los Rios, Brent Gaylord, and Patrick Johnson: These UCSB Ph.D. alums shared their biotech career success stories at the kickoff of Graduate Division's Career Pathways panel series.
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| Resources, Messages in Wake of IV Tragedy
Since the tragic events of May 23, our campus community has come together, to help one another. What follows are links to some of the major messages that were issued and resources that were made available in the weeks that followed.
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| Career, Tips, Resources, Funding, and Life
Get some excellent advice from GradPost guest writer and doctoral candidate Ariel Schindewolf, who shares what she wishes she had known earlier in graduate school. ... A panel of professors from Santa Barbara City College offered tips and insights into careers at community colleges in this second in a series of Career Pathways events. ... Find out who won the Dixon-Levy Service and Excellence in Teaching Awards, which were presented last month. ... Writing Peer Ryan Dippre has written a sixth installment in his series, "Reading Like a Writer." This one focuses on using tables and charts in a dissertation. ... Ryan also shares a website that offers free books. ... Speaking of writing, Santa Barbara City College is seeking writing tutors. ... Apply to become a virtual student Foreign Service intern. ... Funding Peer Kyle Crocco has written many helpful funding articles recently. Here are just a few of them: Read Kyle's Graduate Guide to Funding. ... Get information on international students, visa status, and employment. ... Learn about major predoctoral fellowships. ... Find out about reasonable loan repayment plans and loan forgiveness programs. ... For more funding opportunities, tips, resources, and events, visit our Life, Tools, Funds, Events, and Career pages.
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Gaucho Grad Student Web Essentials
The Graduate Division telephone: 805-893-2277
Newsletter compiled and written by Patricia Marroquin,
Graduate Division Communications Director
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