BSOE Graduate Student Newsletter
Announcements
Spring 2022 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.
Monday, April 4th Graduate Student Enrollment & Fee Payment
If you have not paid your registration fees or enrolled in the minimum number of courses by this date, you will be charged a $50 late fee. Please keep in mind that pending aid (Fellowship, GSR, TA) will not credit your account until you are enrolled in at least 5 units.
Monday, April 4th Graduate Student Part-Time Status
This is the deadline to apply for reduced course load and fees. Part-time status forms must be approved/signed by your faculty advisor and submitted to the BSOE Graduate Advising office by the posted deadline. Part-time application forms are available on the Graduate Division's website.
Thursday, April 7th Deadline To Apply For Degree
If you plan to complete your MS or PhD this quarter (Spring 2022), the degree application needs to be submitted to BSOE Graduate Advising office. This is also the deadline to pay for filing fee, if applicable. More guidelines for graduating are available on the Graduate Advising website.
Friday, April 15th 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, May 6th Leave of Absence Spring 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.
Friday, May 27th 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 27th 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.
GPU Hackathon Deadline Extended to: SUNDAY, MARCH 20.
The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) in partnership with NVIDIA and Oak Ridge National Laboratory will host a GPU Hackathon
Grab a Team and APPLY Today!
Application Deadline: March 13, 2022 - Last Call, Extended to March 20!
This event will be held virtually at no-charge.
The SDSC GPU Hackathon is a multi-day, intensive hands-on event, designed to help computational scientists and researchers port, optimize, and accelerate their applications using GPUs. These events pair participants with dedicated mentors experienced in GPU programming and development. Representing distinguished scholars and preeminent institutions from around the world, the teams of mentors and attendees work together to realize performance gains and speedups by taking advantage of parallel programming on GPUs.
The goal of the GPU Hackathon is for current or prospective user groups of large-scale, GPU-accelerated systems to port their applications to GPU accelerators or to further optimize already ported applications. Participating teams can expect to either have their applications running on GPUs, or a clear roadmap of next steps to leverage GPUs.
Please visit the GPU Hackathons for full event details.
UCSC TAPS Vanpool
The UCSC Vanpool program is accepting UCSC students, faculty, and staff for new and existing vanpool routes. Join one of the UCSC vanpools from Watsonville, Monterey, or Salinas, or form a new group that wants to commute together, save money and enjoy the ride with other UCSC affiliates. Our Monterey and San Jose routes are looking for staff or grad students who want to train to be full-time or part-time van drivers. Find out if you qualify and you could have your fees fully or partially waived. Email vanpool-group@ucsc.edu to take advantage of a free trial to see if vanpooling is for you!
CROSS Call for Proposals Spring 2022
The Center for Research in Open Source Software (CROSS) is seeking proposals for new research and incubator projects to be reviewed at the Spring 2022 CROSS Industrial Advisory Board (IAB) meeting, which will be held April 21.
Proposals are due on April 4. If a proposal is shortlisted, the project lead will be invited to make a 15-20 minute presentation to the CROSS IAB and Advisory Committee.
The full Call for Proposals is available on the CROSS website at https://cross.ucsc.edu/
UCSC faculty and PhD students who will have completed their class work by the end of Spring 2022 are encouraged to propose research projects. Funding for selected research projects cover the costs for one graduate student researcher (GSR) position. Research projects should raise a fundamental research question and open a plausible path to open source software that would be widely adopted. Research projects should also fit within the list of suggested topics included in the Call.
Recent PhD graduates or those graduating by the end of Spring 2022 from any university are welcome to propose incubator projects. Selected incubator projects fund one post-doc as an Open Source Incubator Fellow. This Fellowship is intended for postdoctoral scholars who want to grow contributor communities around their open source research prototypes and who can play the role of "open source ambassador" at UC Santa Cruz, including through exemplifying open source project and community management practices, sharing their experiences as a mentor to students, and as a classroom instructors for courses that teach students how to productively engage in open source projects. The incubator proposal should also show strong evidence that the open source project would meet with great interest by at least one well-established open source community.
Call for Applications - Piatt Fellowship 2022-23
The Graduate Division and the Office of Foundation Relations are pleased to invite qualified students to apply for the Henry and Vera Piatt Fellowship, underwritten by the Capitola-Aptos Rotary Foundation. Please distribute this call widely among graduate students in your departments.
UCSC Contacts: Peter Biehl, Vice Provost and Dean of Graduate Studies, pbiehl@ucsc.edu
Almut Wolf, Foundation Relations, awolf2@ucsc.edu
Funder: Capitola Aptos Rotary Foundation
Opportunity: Henry and Vera Piatt Fellowship
Deadline: April 20, 2022
Overview
Underwritten by the Capitola-Aptos Rotary Foundation, the Piatt Fellowship will provide a single award of $15,000 to a graduate of a Santa Cruz County Public High School who is pursuing a graduate degree at UC Santa Cruz in one of the science, technology, engineering or mathematics (STEM) disciplines during the 2022-23 academic year.
Eligibility
Applicants must meet the following criteria:
● Be a US citizen.
● A graduate of a public high school in Santa Cruz County and possessing a Baccalaureate degree from an accredited college or university.
● Pursuing a Ph.D. in the science, math, technology or mathematics (STEM) disciplines. If no suitable Ph.D. candidate can be found, then a second-year Master’s student is acceptable.
● Student recipient must be in good academic standing and in successful pursuit of their graduate degree. Ranked priority for qualified recipients shall be a student who:
1. Is in the final stages of their graduate degree, i.e. conducting original research and preparing their dissertation,
2. Has passed their qualifying exam(s) and is advanced to candidacy,
3. Is a second or third-year student, or
4. Is a student entering a graduate program in the appropriate disciplines at UCSC.
To apply:
Please send the following materials in electronic format (PDFs or scanned documents) to Peter Biehl, pbiehl@ucsc.edu and to Almut Wolf, awolf2@ucsc.edu by April 20, 2022:
1. Completed Piatt Fellowship Application/Information Sheet form (attached).
2. A letter of recommendation from the department chair, faculty advisor, or faculty sponsor that describes the student’s academic merit and how the student will benefit from the award.
3. Unofficial Transcripts
4. (Optional) Relevant material that would assist with the selection process - in the past this has included visual aids (charts, diagrams, formulas), research results, published articles/reports – Please limit optional material to 10 single spaced pages or 1 published article/report.
Selection Process and Distribution of Funds
The Graduate Division will convene a committee of faculty members from STEM disciplines to select the Piatt Fellowship awardee in early May 2022.
Piatt Fellowship funds will be awarded for the 2022-23 academic year and can be used for all costs related to successful pursuit of the graduate degree, including but not limited to fees, tuition, research, equipment, childcare or living expenses, etc. The Piatt Fellow will receive their award prior to the beginning of the 2022-23 academic year, probably in August 2022.
Please note: The selected student is required to attend at least 1-2 meetings of the Capitola Aptos Rotary Club. Typically, the first is in the fall where the recipient will be officially presented with the award and meet the benefactors, and second, later in the year, the Piatt Fellow will give a presentation to the Capitola-Aptos Rotary Club on their research supported by this award.
Questions
Please contact:
● Peter Biehl, Vice Provost and Dean of Graduate Studies, or pbiehl@ucsc.edu
● Almut Wolf, Assistant Director Foundation Relations, 831-459-2902 or awolf2@ucsc.edu
Timeline
Wednesday April 20, 2022 Applications Due
May 15, 2022
May 25, 2022
June 1, 2022
Call sent: March 17, 2022
Inaugural Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Luncheon for Women in EE and CS
Transforming Structures of Whiteness in University Leadership
The Center for Racial Justice is happy to announce an upcoming series centered on the research and writing of Associate Professor of Psychology Rebecca Covarrubias and graduate student Katherine Quinteros!
Please join us for the event series titled: Transforming Structures of Whiteness in University Leadership. Please save the dates and register below. More information to follow
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This series will consist of three events:
Friday, February 18–Enacting Solidarities: Faculty/Staff Affinity Groups Report Back
The Faculty Community Networking Program was created to provide DEI arenas of community, development, and support for faculty from historically marginalized communities on campus. In this forum, leaders of these groups will present the issues and recommendations that emerged from their collective discussions, and report back on their groups’ experiences in trying to improve faculty community, development, and support. Discussion will focus on how to move this work forward.
Register Here (restricted to UCSC):
https://ucsc.zoom.us/meeting/
Friday, April 1– Calling Out Whiteness in University Structures of Leadership
Centering the voices and lived experiences of faculty of color (FOC) navigating university leadership is critical for exposing and transforming problematic structures. From a brief research talk, audiences will learn how FOC navigate and reform structures of Whiteness in leadership. Interactive discussion with divisional deans will follow, with goals of understanding how to bolster the leadership efforts of FOC and undo structures of Whiteness.
Register Here (restricted to UCSC):
https://ucsc.zoom.us/meeting/
TBD–Recognizing Invisible Labor in the University: Ways Forward
Recent research and social movements have highlighted ways that racism and sexism remain entrenched in the academy. Patterns of faculty workload show clear inequities, with faculty from historically minoritized groups disproportionately doing more service, diversity and mentoring work, with women faculty doing more teaching and service. These activities are essential to university functioning, yet are often invisible and unrewarded, leading to lower productivity and decreased retention. In this event, our panelists will discuss examples of promising practices and policies that have been developed both within the University of California system and beyond, for recognizing and rewarding invisible labor.
Registration forthcoming.
Energy Division Open House
The California Public Utilities Commission's Energy Division will be holding Open House Sessions on the dates and times listed below. Please view the Energy Division Recruiting Webpage<https://www.cpuc.ca.go
* Thursday, March 03, 2022 from 11:00 a.m. - 11:50 a.m. (PST)
* Thursday, March 03, 2022 from 12:00 p.m. - 12:50 p.m. (PST)
* Thursday, March 24, 2022 from 11:00 a.m. - 11:50 a.m. (PST)
* Thursday, March 24, 2022 from 12:00 p.m. - 12:50 p.m. (PST)
Find out about:
* Open Positions
* Work we do
* Benefits and salary
* Other topics you're interested in
For more information, please reach out to energydivisionrecruiting@cpuc.
LEED Training - California - Winter Webinars
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Our engaging webinars have helped over 10K students and professionals learn the material cold AND clear the exam with a very high passing rate. The LEED Professional Designation has helped past participants attain internships and jobs and now is a great time to add this credential.
LEED Green Associate (GA) Training - Webinar and Online self-paced options:
I will be offering live webinars that can be streamed on any of the following dates:
The above options (1-7) are all identical.
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This course is instructed by a USGBC Faculty member and is the most effective way to pass. The USGBC charges a $100 (reduced for students) fee for the actual exam which can now be taken online from home. Save money by reserving your spot today and make a positive difference in your career!
Cost: $200 - Students can use the coupon code ‘green’ for $50 off (Discounted course price $150)
Save your seat by registering here for our live or self-paced options - https://leadinggreen.com/
Please contact the instructor Lorne directly with any questions at info@leadinggreen.com
SDSC's HPC/CI Training Series 2022 - Register today!
We are looking to reach out to undergraduate and graduate students, as well as faculty and staff at all UC campuses who may be interested in a training program on High Performance Computing (HPC) and Cyberinfrastructure (CI). This program allows students the opportunity for hands-on experience with SDSC’s latest supercomputer, Expanse.
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