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Nominate a Student Speaker for the 2021 BSOE Commencement Ceremony

Supporting students with the latest Higher Education Emergency Relief Funds

The Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act (CRRSAA), signed into law in late December, provided our campus with $28.8 million on March 17 to mitigate the financial impact of the pandemic on the university and its students. Our Financial Aid and Scholarships Office will directly award $9.7 million of the CRRSAA funding to graduate and undergraduate students with exceptional need to help with expenses related to COVID-19 including tuition, housing, food, health care (including mental health care), and child care. 

Financial aid grants will be directly awarded to graduate and undergraduate students who demonstrate exceptional need, for example very low expected family contribution levels or student parents with dependent children. Determinations will be made based on existing financial aid information. In most cases, additional applications or requests will not be necessary. Graduate students who appear eligible based on prior financial aid information but who did not complete an application this year will receive information by email on how to file a Declaration of Exceptional Need to confirm eligibility, a new requirement due to changes in this round of higher education relief funds.  

The Financial Aid and Scholarships Office consulted with campus leaders, and with leadership of  the Student Union Assembly and the Graduate Student Association, on how best to award funds within program requirements and regulations. The minimum spring quarter award will be $1,000. Students identified for an award will receive an email in the next few days to ensure direct-deposit information is current. Money will be disbursed soon afterward. The CRRSAA awards are one-time grants that do not need to be paid back. 

Though CRRSAA funds are restricted to students eligible for federal aid, UC Santa Cruz will provide equivalent awards to students who have completed the California Dream Application. 

Any student experiencing a financial emergency, regardless of aid eligibility should contact the Slug Support team. 

The remaining $19.1 million will be used to cover campus expenses associated with COVID-19.  Following federal guidance, costs may include additional course offerings or sections to ensure compliance with social distancing requirements, shipping course materials to students taking remote instruction, continued technology costs supporting remote instruction, lost revenue, COVID-19 prevention such as campus vaccination services, testing services, etc.

Our thoughts are with all members of the UC Santa Cruz community as together we continue to face the unprecedented challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. Please stay safe, stay well, and stay connected. 

For more information click here

Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning (CITL) Teaching for Equity Graduate Certificate Program - Spring 2021

Registration opens Monday, February 22 at 9:00am Pacific Time: bit.ly/TeachForEquity2021

Are you passionate about promoting equity in higher education? CITL’s Teaching for Equity Graduate Certificate Program is a unique professionalization curriculum designed to enhance your understanding and implementation of best practices in equity-focused pedagogy. Through engaging conversations and structured learning activities, we’ll explore key issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion in college classrooms. You will be guided in developing teaching strategies shown to foster the equitable learning outcomes that inspired so many of us to pursue higher education as a calling.

This intimate learning community of graduate students from across campus will meet bi-weekly (5 sessions total) during Spring quarter. Included among the topics we’ll cover: identifying common institutional barriers to learning; teaching to cultural strengths; implementing Universal Design for Learning; embracing identity and difference in the classroom; promoting active and collaborative learning; using emotional connection to motivate learning; and scaffolding assignments to benefit student success.

Depending on your personal teaching goals, you will be supported through the process of developing components of an equity-focused course syllabus, along with associated lesson plans and learning activities. 

This program is a commitment -- but we promise you’ll come away from the experience with an invaluable toolkit of equitable teaching strategies that will shape your course design and teaching practices for years to come. Please join us!

Program Dates: Five live Zoom sessions on every other Friday in Spring 2021, at 10:00am-12:00pm Pacific Time:

• Friday, April 2 (Week 1)

• Friday, April 16 (Week 3)

• Friday, April 30 (Week 5)

• Friday, May 14 (Week 7)

• Friday, May 28 (Week 9)

How to Participate: Graduate students in any discipline and with any level of prior teaching experience are welcome to register. The certificate program is limited to 30 participants. Participants commit to attending all 5 workshops and to completing teaching-related projects with the structured support of the learning community.

Registration opens on Monday, February 22, 2021 at 9:00am Pacific Time and will remain open until Monday, March 1 at 9:00am Pacific Time.

Registration link: bit.ly/TeachForEquity2021

A waitlist will automatically open after 30 people have registered. CITL will contact people on the waitlist in the order in which they sign up if any spots become available.

Find this information online at: https://citl.ucsc.edu/programs/graduate-certificate-programs/

CART Fellowship Application Now Open

Applications for the CART Fellowship Program in Summer and Fall 2021 are now open! The deadline to apply is Monday, May 10th.

In the Center for Archival Research and Training, you can:

• Get paid experience working remotely with archival materials
• Create your own digital project aligned with your research and creative interests
• Enhance your research skills using archives and primary sources
• Help make archival collections more discoverable to researchers
• Learn about different library and archives career options
• Explore innovative digital tools that you can use in your research and teaching
• Make connections with graduate students from different disciplines and interests

More information about this year's CART fellowship is available on our website, and an online information session will be held at 12pm on Wednesday April 14th. Register here.

Contact CART Archivist Alix Norton at alix.norton@ucsc.edu with any questions you have about the application and the program.

SDSC GPU Hackathon to be held in May- APPLY Now!

SDSC GPU Hackathon
Grab a Team and APPLY Today!
Application Deadline: March 4, 2021
Hackathon Prep Day 1: May 4, 2021
Hackathon Day 2 – 4: May 11 – 13, 2021
This event will be held virtually at no-charge. 

GPU Hackathons provide exciting opportunities for scientists to accelerate their AI research or HPC codes under the guidance of mentors from national labs, universities and industry leaders in a collaborative environment.

The SDSC Hackathon is a multi-day event designed to help teams of three to six developers accelerate their own codes on GPUs using a programming model or machine learning framework of their choice. Each team is assigned mentors through the duration of the event.

This is a unique opportunity for teams to jumpstart acceleration or optimization of their code on GPUs. With the help of experienced mentors, each team should have significantly accelerated their code or know which steps to take to continue the work.

To get a better idea of what the virtual GPU Hackathon will be like, check out this blog post on the first virtual hackathon in the series hosted by SDSC last year. 

SDSC’s Cyberinfrastructure-Enabled Machine Learning (CIML) Summer Institute

SDSC's Annual High-Performance Computing and Data Science Summer Institute

2021-22 Guru Gobind Singh Fellowship Competition

You will find attached the call for the 2021-22 Guru Gobind Singh Fellowship Competition.

Nominations should be submitted via email to vpdgs@ucsc.edu by May 2.

FLYER: Guru_Gobind_Singh_call_2021-22_UCSC.pdf

Piatt Fellowship 2021-2022

The Graduate Division and the Office of Foundations Relations are
pleased to share this limited submission call for applications to the
Piatt Graduate Fellowship in the STEM disciplines.

The Piatt Fellowship is a graduate award from the Capitola-Aptos Rotary
Club. The anticipated amount of $15,000* will be awarded to a STEM
graduate student who is also a graduate of a public Santa Cruz County
High School.

Please send your application packet to Almut Wolf | awolf2@ucsc.edu |
831.459.2902).

Submission deadline is Monday, May 3rd, by 5pm.

Call for Application: PiattFellowshipCall_Applications.pdf

Application Form: PiattFellowshipApplForm.pdf

Startup Pitch Contest: IDEA Hub 2021

IDEA Hub is UCSC's Annual, Spring Quarter, End-of-Year pitch contest:

• Open to all UCSC startup teams
• Open to all departments, research areas, and degree programs
• Open to all business and social/environmental business models
• Founding team must have at least one 2020/21 UCSC student
• Non-traditional founders are strongly encouraged to apply

Deadline:
• First Round Applications due 5/14/21, 23:59 PST

Application instructions are included here:

http://bit.ly/ideahub2021-apply
 

Contact:
If you have any questions regarding IDEA Hub or this application, please contact UCSC Entrepreneur in Residence: mothusi@ucsc.edu

Bakersfield College Teaching Assistant Diversity Recruitment

Application Components:

• A letter of interest specifying why the candidate is interested in teaching students at Bakersfield College. The letter should also discuss how the candidate’s educational experiences have prepared them to teach at a community college with a diverse student body, like Bakersfield College.
• An updated curriculum vitae with at least three professional references and contact information listed, one of the references needs to be from a current or former supervisor.
• College/university transcript (unofficial transcripts will be accepted), including all college units attempted.
• One signed letter of recommendation written within the last six months specifically for the Bakersfield College Faculty Diversification Fellowship Program from an individual who has provided post-secondary academic instruction to the applicant.
• Link to application: https://careers.kccd.edu/postings/13765

PowerPoint Presentation: Bakersfield_College_Recruitment_Presentation.pdf

Summer GSR Opportunities with CITL/HSI

Summer 2021 Graduate Student Researchers

The Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning (CITL) seeks two (2) 50% Graduate Student Researcher (GSR) for Summer 2021 to support the Redesigning Calculus in the Life Sciences component of the Graduating and Advancing New American Scholars (GANAS) grant, a Career Pathways HSI Title V project. The Redesigning Calculus in the Life Sciences activity will implement a comprehensive overhaul of curriculum and pedagogy with active learning and problem-solving sessions and focus on inclusivity and equity.

The GSRs will research and develop projects and active learning problem sets that bridge the introductory biology and calculus curricula to be used in the redesigned course.

Preferred qualifications include:

• Experience with developing learning activities (quizzes, mini tests, homework problems, worksheets) as a GSI or TA.

• Experience with articulating learning outcomes and their alignment with assessments and teaching practices.

• Exposure with application related concepts in biology where introductory calculus is relevant and integrated.

• Strong knowledge of calculus and some knowledge of biological sciences to bridge the transfer of knowledge between MATH 11A and the BIO20 series. 

• Knowledge of Active Learning strategies.

• Typesetting knowledge in LaTeX or similar tools.

• Experience with Canvas content creation.

• Knowledge of rubric development for project based assignments.

• Works well in a collaborative environment where exchanging of ideas is dominant.

• Experience with literature review for the purpose of the designing of the Math 11A course learning activities.

These positions are 50% GSR appointments, which includes graduate student health insurance (GSHIP). 

Interested graduate students must submit an up-to-date CV and a letter of application of no more than one single-spaced page that addresses your interest in the position and how your skills and experiences prepare you for the position. 

Send applications to citl@ucsc.edu with the subject line “GANAS GSR Application” by 9:00am on Monday, May 3.

Timeline:

• Letter of intent due to CITL by Monday, May 3, at 9am (email letter to citl@ucsc.edu with subject the line “GANAS GSR Application”).

• Selected candidates will be invited for an interview by Friday, May 7.

• Interviews will take place the week of May 10.

• Final decision will be made by May 17.

About the GANAS Grant: The Graduating and Advancing New American Scholars (GANAS) - Career Pathways HSI Title V Project represents a major step in the evolution of the University of California, Santa Cruz as a Hispanic-Serving Research Institution. In the last 25 years, UCSC has doubled in size and more than tripled its Latina/o student population. Currently, Latina/o students comprise 27% of UCSC’s 17,500 students. The GANAS Project aims to support Latina/o, low-income/EOP, and underrepresented students to, through, and beyond UCSC by addressing curricular, co-curricular, and institutional barriers.

FLYER: GSR_Calculus_Life_Sciences_Redesign.pdf

*PLEASE NOTE THE UPCOMING UNIVERSITY DEADLINES*

Please note the following upcoming university deadlines, and ALWAYS check the Academic and Administrative Calendar for important dates and deadlines. Bookmark this year's Academic and Administrative Calendar and refer to it regularly.

Friday, April 16th Deadline to Add/Drop/Swap Courses
This is your last day to add, drop and swap courses.  You will not be able to drop or withdraw from courses after this deadline has passed. If you are enrolled in a placeholder class, you MUST drop it by this deadline. More information on how to add, drop, and swap classes is available on the registrar website.

Friday, April 16th Grade Option
This is your last day to change your grading option for any courses you are enrolled in.

IMPORTANT: The system defaults to Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory grading.  Instructions for how to change your grading option to letter grades (ABC) can be found here.

Friday, May 7th Late Add with Fee Deadline

The Add by Petition form requires the signatures of both the instructor and the department adviser and needs to be submitted to the Office of the Registrar.

Friday, August 27th Leave of Absence Summer Deadline
Deadline to petition for leave of absence (LOA) beginning the next quarter. LOA forms must be approved/signed by your faculty advisor and submitted to the BSOE Graduate Advising office by the posted deadline.  LOA application forms are available on the Graduate Division's website. 

HAMMETT FELLOWSHIP APPLICATION

HAMMETT FELLOWSHIP APPLICATION DEADLINE: 5:00 PM ON APRIL 29, 2021 

 The Environmental Studies Department at UCSC is pleased to offer 4 graduate student research fellowships (GSRs) of $7500 each for summer 2021 to students who conduct interdisciplinary research on climate change or climate change and water issues.

Awards are available to graduate students in any department at UCSC. Priority will be given to students who: (1) are working with UCSC faculty in two different disciplines (ideally labs that have not collaborated extensively in the past), (2) whose projects show promise to provide pilot data to help secure additional outside funding, and (3) whose results have clear applications to environmental problem solving. 

Please contact envs1@ucsc.edu if you have any questions or concerns.  

Funding: The award provides a $7500 GSRship for summer 2021 to cover summer salary plus additional research funds.

Please use this online form to apply for the Hammett Award. 

Letters of reference should be sent to envsgpc@ucsc.edu.

Deadline: Thursday, April 29th by 5:00pm.

For more information, and to view all of the submission requirements, please visit the Hammett Award Website.

Open Call - JSMF - 2021 Postdoctoral Fellowship Awards

2021 Postdoctoral Fellowship Awards for Dynamic and Multiscale Systems

Application Deadline: June 11, 2021 

Overview

The fellowship is geared to students near the completion of their doctoral training and committed to acquiring new skills and experience in a multi-disciplinary field such as complex systems science. The JSMF fellowship is designed to provide students with opportunities to pursue postdoctoral training aligned with the student's interest and desire to obtain additional skills and experience that will further their pursuit of careers in complex systems science.

Eligibility:

·Students should anticipate completing their degree requirements and activating the Fellowship between May 2022 and April 2023.

·The JSMF Fellowship is a unique opportunity for students with an interest in and an aptitude for complexity science who are in the final stages of completing their Ph.D. and looking to add new dimensions to their graduate training that will either be difficult or impossible without an independent source of funding.

·Important: This Fellowship is not intended for individuals that already have completed a Ph.D. or students that have already identified a postdoctoral position and a postdoctoral mentor as traditional.

Award Details:

·$200,000 USD to be expended in no less than 2 and no more than 3 years.

·The cost of the full postdoctoral salary or stipend and fringe benefits must be paid in full from the fellowship.

·Institutions cannot request that other funding sources be used to cover the Fellow’s salary or stipend; the primary purpose of this fellowship is the independence of the postdoctoral fellow.

·JSMF does not consider dependence on institutional or research grant funding as commensurate with such independence. The fellowship is not intended to provide general support to a laboratory or department.

·If the institutional postdoctoral salary scales are set such that there are funds in excess of what is needed for stipend and benefits, the excess funds can be used by the institution to support the Fellow’s research.

Special Requirements: Please promptly submit your proposal intake form prior to the UCSC's Internal Institutional Deadlines. For proposal support, or for any questions about institutional requirements, please send requests and questions to the research development team at resdev@ucsc.edu. A proposal development specialist will field your requests. 

Call sent: March 12, 2021 

The Office Foundation Relations is a unit of University Relations. The FR team creates and maintains mutually beneficial, long-term relationships with private organizations, matching grant initiatives with educational and research programs and centers. FR supports faculty and staff to identify and approach these and other private foundations and corporations for funding, to assist in strategic positioning of the grant application, and to facilitate funder campus visits.

For a list of recent funding opportunities, please visit the FR website.  FR Calls for Funding

SDSC HPC User Training Series 2021

January 22 – March 12, 2021 & April 9 – May 7, 2021
Friday’s from 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM (PST)
Register TODAY

This High-Performance Computing (HPC) User Training series is open to all who are interested in advancing their knowledge and experience on HPC systems and concepts.  The program was originally developed in 2019 to support UCSD undergraduates interested in furthering their knowledge of HPC concepts and hands-on training, as well as, building a team interested in competing in the annual Student Cluster Competition held at the annual International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC). This program continues to focus efforts on building a team to complete in the annual SC Student Cluster Competition but also extends to any who are interested in attending.    

Learn more about the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC)
Additional SDSC training for Advanced Computing Users
Questions regarding our events, please contact us at events@sdsc.edu.

Climate Justice Symposium for Transforming Education 

Climate Justice Symposium for Transforming Education 

A free event open to everyone 

Climate Justice is both a movement and a way of approaching the climate crisis that foregrounds connections between global warming and social injustice.   Climate Justice must be imagined and produced from the standpoint of the impactful work of ongoing Environmental Justice scholarship and activism, which demands that Climate Justice be achieved through Anti-Racism.  Climate justice holds that though U.S. communities of color in the Global North and communities throughout the Global South have contributed less to climate change than communities with more privilege, they are the most likely to experience the worst effects of climate change. Because climate change is an extension of other forms of oppression, these communities’ traditions of resistance must lead the way for identifying climate solutions.

During the symposium, we will be exploring:

• How to integrate climate justice into higher education curriculum (including into medical school curriculum) and how to scale up these efforts;
• Community engagement through climate justice curricula;
• Just and transformative pedagogies; and
• The role of health in the climate crisis dialogue.

This event is free and open to anyone interested in attending. Sessions will be offered in a mix of pre-recorded and live formats.  All live components of the conference will also be recorded and available after the event, so if the timing doesn't work for you, we still encourage you to register so that you can receive instructions on how to access the free post-event recordings.  

The virtual event will be hosted April 28th through May 1st. Live sessions will occur between 10am-12pm and 2-4pm each day in addition to pre-recorded sessions available at your convenience.

Registration Link for Attendance:  https://tinyurl.com/CJSTEReg 

Lightning Talks and Opportunity to Win Prize Money! 

We are also seeking proposals for lightning talks from Faculty, Graduate Students, and Undergraduate Students who would like to present 3-5 slides in 5-7 minutes on one of our core conference topic focuses (see bullet points above).  We will ask presenters to pre-record these lightning talks and participants will be able to vote on their favorite talks.  Cash prizes will be awarded to the most popular pre-recorded lightning talks and awards will be given in the amounts of:

• Three CSU Faculty will be selected for: Gold ($1,000), Silver ($500), and Bronze ($300)
• Three CSU Students will be selected for: Gold ($1,000), Silver ($500), and Bronze ($300)
• Three UC Faculty will be selected for: Gold ($1,000), Silver ($500), and Bronze ($300)
• Three UC Students will be selected for: Gold ($1,000), Silver ($500), and Bronze ($300)

Please note that student awards will be coordinated through the Financial Aid office of the winning students.  Faculty awards will be in the form of an award to be used towards their research and/or teaching and the award will be transferred to their home academic department. Applicants for lightning talks must register to give a lightning talk by 4/9/2021 at: https://tinyurl.com/CJSTEReg (this link will let you register and submit your lightning talk at the same time). Applicants will be vetted for eligibility, connection to the themes, and completeness of application and will receive confirmation that their application was accepted by 4/13. Presenters of the lightning talks must submit their pre-recorded lightning talk by 4/21/2021 for posting to the conference website prior to the virtual symposium kick-off on 4/28/2021.  

Registration Link for Attendance: https://tinyurl.com/CJSTEReg (you will be given an option at the end of this form to apply for your lightning talk.  If you choose to register now, but want to submit your talk description later, you can register at: https://tinyurl.com/CJSTEReg and then later apply for a lightning talk at this form for just the lightning talk submittal:  https://tinyurl.com/CJSTELightning.

Events

The Uses and Abuses of Data in Higher Education

We are excited to announce the upcoming Data Science Day 2021.  To register for the event, please RSVP here.  For further information on the event schedule and speakers, you can visit our website at https://citl.ucsc.edu/data-science-day-2021/.

Graduate Research Symposium Award Ceremony

Please register to attend the virtual Zoom webinar where VPDGS Quentin Williams will announce the winners, Friday, April 23, 4:00 p.m. PDT.

Jobs

Vassar College Visiting Assistant Professor Position

The Computer Science Department at Vassar College has recently opened a search for a two-year Visiting Assistant Professor in Computer Science.  We are attempting to attract a diverse pool of candidates, and as part of this effort we are reaching out to you.  If you are aware of any qualified candidates who might be interested in teaching at an outstanding liberal arts institution, please share the attached job ad with them and encourage them to apply.  The job ad may also be found at the following link:  https://employment.vassar.edu/postings/1793.

Flyer: Vassar_College_Visiting_Professor_Ad.pdf