Newsletter for 08/07/2022

Announcements

**PLEASE NOTE 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, July 8th Deadline To Apply For Degree
If you plan to complete your MS or PhD this quarter (Summer 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, August 26th 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. 

LitFellow Scholarship

LitFellow.com is very excited to tell you that we are offering a $1000 scholarship to students of Baskin School of Engineering. 


Eligibility Requirements


In order to participate in the scholarship contest, applicants must meet the following criteria:


Must be currently attending or planning to attend a college or university during the academic year 2022.

Must be in good academic standing with your current educational institution.

Applicants under 18, must have permission from a parent or legal guardian.

Must apply to the contest by email and provide your name, address, and the name of the institution you are attending or plan to attend.

Must provide your written essay by the deadline of 1st December 2022.

A winner will be chosen on 1st January 2023

All essay submissions should be sent to: mailto:admin@litfellow.com


To learn more about the scholarship, you can visit our website at the link below as well as review the attached flyer. If you have any questions please let us know.


https://litfellow.com/scholarship/

City of Hope Graduate Student Symposium

You are cordially invited to attend City of Hope’s 6^th Annual Biomedical Research Graduate Student Symposium to be held virtually on August 26^th, 2022. This one-day event will promote professional development and foster communication between graduate students in the Southern California area.

We highly encourage Master’s and PhD students to present their current research! Abstracts of 500 words or less can be submitted online for oral or poster presentations. Abstracts are due Friday, July 15^th. Both oral and poster presentations are eligible for monetary prizes.

This year we will be hosting a science communication seminar and a career panel with COH alumni from public policy, academia, and industry. Our Keynote address will be by the fabulous Dr. Maike Sander from University of California, San Diego. Details for all our speakers can be found on our website.

Registration is free and now open online, please go to this link:

https://www.cityofhope.org/academics/irell-and-manella-graduate-school-of-biological-sciences/biomedical-research-graduate-student-symposium/biomedical-research-graduate-student-symposium-registration

2022 PBSci Summer Activities

Hi grads, this year’s PBSci Summer Activities starts on 08/01/22. All grads are welcome! Join them this summer with fun activities that will allow you to connect with the communities at UCSC and Santa Cruz. This program offers a variety of activities (most of which are free) - there’s something for everyone! See the flyer for more information.

Flyer: PBSciSA.jpg

The Center for Racial Justice presents–Summer Institute 2022: Political Education and Liberatory Knowledge

Events

2022 Natural Language Processing Capstone Workshop

You're invited to the 2022 Natural Language Processing Capstone Workshop! This year, UCSC NLP M.S. students worked in teams mentored by industry experts from IBM, Interactions, LinkedIn, and Google to develop Capstone projects that address real-world NLP challenges. Join us online on August 26th (1-5 PM PDT) to learn about each project.

To register for the 2022 NLP Capstone Workshop, please complete this form.

UC Berkeley Miller Institute Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Info Session 8/11 at 12pm Pacific!

Interested in doing a postdoc at UC Berkeley? Come learn about the Miller Institute's Postdoctoral Research Fellowship!

The Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science at UC Berkeley is hosting an informational session about our three-year interdisciplinary Fellowship Program for recent PhDs in the sciences.  The Miller Research Fellowship is designed for independent postdocs to pursue their own research goals within a host department on the UC Berkeley campus.  Join us to learn more about this opportunity!

Date: Thursday, August 11

Time: 12 - 1 PM Pacific time

Location: Zoom, registration required (register here)

Hosted by: Professor Marla Feller, Miller Institute Executive Director and Professor of Neurobiology

Topics covered:

-What is the Miller Institute and the Miller Fellowship?

-The nomination and application process

-Hear from current Miller Fellows 

-Q&A

Register in advance for this meeting:

https://berkeley.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYkd-mtqD0tGdI7YUzcmMNYwH29ryZhGHmK 

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

For questions, please contact Hilary Jacobsen at millerinstitute@berkeley.edu.

Jobs

Campus Opportunity for STEM Grads

Campus opportunity for STEM Grads—Oakes Scientist in Residence—is once again open. The position is set up so that a STEM graduate student is given housing at Oakes College in exchange for developing and leading regular community building programming for undergraduates.  To learn more, or apply, please direct interested students to the position on handshake as Job #6684673 "Scientist in Residence." 

Job Announcement for SZ4D Event Assistant

The Earth & Planetary Sciences (EPS) Department is recruiting a new part-time event assistant to support the SZ4D Initiative. If you or one of your contacts are looking for part-time work, possibly to supplement another part-time position on campus, please consider this opportunity.

Event Assistant, SZ4D Program (Job ID 39925)
SZ4D (sz4d.org) is a multi-institution collaboration that holds workshops to build a plan for a major instrumentation and science initiative studying earthquakes, volcanoes, landslides and tsunamis. Under the supervision of the SZ4D Program Manager, the incumbent is responsible for supporting SZ4D workshops at UC Santa Cruz and elsewhere, including organizing meeting logistics, coordinating travel arrangements and reimbursements, and maintaining websites.

Classification: BLANK AST 3 (4722)

Salary range: $24.64 - $26.34/hour. Salary commensurate with skills, qualifications and experience.

Work schedule:  Part-time, 50% time (20 hours/week up to 1,000 hours per year)

EPS welcomes applications from current UCSC staff and external applicants.

Internal candidates apply here.

External candidates apply here.

The initial review date is August 10, 2022. 

Web Development and Data Science - Fall 2022 and Summer 2023  Internship and Coop

Are you a motivated Web Developer, Data Scientist or Software Engineer who wants to assist in the design and build of web applications from the ground up? Do you like to design and build algorithms as much as you like to write code? If so, come join the summer internship.

If needed, we may sponsor a work Visa for International Students.

Level of Education: Undergraduate and Graduate

Contact Person: Matt Hosseini, matt@startinvest.com

How to Apply: Please send your resume/CV by 08/15/2022 to matt@startinvest.com.

Company: StartInvest

https://www.startinvest.com

Internship and Coop Fall 2022 and Summer 2023 with maximum pay up to $50 per hour, maximum of 40 hours a week

Location: Los Angeles and/or Remote

Company:

StartInvest helps companies raise capital by private equity on our web platform. With over $200 billion in market cap in the US, our Fintech strategy is aimed to be the number one online private equity market provider. StartInvest is transforming its business and shaping the financial services sector by driving quality, convenience, and customer service to new levels of excellence. It’s an exciting time for our organization, to aim for our highest goals and achievements. If you’re ready to unleash your potential to help drive change through bottom-up innovation, apply now.

StartInvest’s unique Fintech approach to private equity gives us a great advantage in helping early-stage all the way to Pre-IPO companies. We help investors by giving them access to private deals which has been very limited before. We believe the future of venture capital is here and we may disrupt it through technology. The combination of unprecedented access to private equity and Fintech results in great ideas and companies being funded, paving the way to a brighter future.

Internship at StartInvest:

At StartInvest, you will join our team of developers and engineers to gain hands-on experience in web development. Your hands-on experience will help you toward your short-term and long-term career goals by giving you the opportunity to learn and practice in an applied setting. The learning and practice challenges will strengthen your problem-solving capabilities along with teamwork skills.

• Perform hands-on software development, including writing code from scratch, unit tests, doing proof of concepts, conducting code reviews, and testing in ongoing sprints

•  Work closely with other developers to implement innovative solutions to challenging web development problems

• Participates in system design and specifications, program logic and flow-charting, development, testing, debugging, documentation, and support

• Drive automation and ensure automated test scripts are completed for new features

• Provides analysis of problems and recommends solutions

Qualifications

• BS or MS degree in computer science, or equivalent 2+ years of work experience

• Strong experience building progressive web applications

• Experience working with React

• Strong background in JavaScript

• Experience working with NodeJS

• Experience working with PostgreSQL and MongoDB

• Experience with AWS

• Proficiency working with Docker

• Proficiency in working with GraphQL and Kubernetes

• Strong experience in systems architecture design and development

• Experience using test-driven development practices

• Ability to efficiently manage and build large, complex web applications

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with good attention to detail

• Excellent oral and written communication skills

• Self-motivated, ability to work independently

• Ability to use creative thinking to develop innovative solutions to business problems

• Strong project management skills, including the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously

• Ability to mentor other developers and interns

Additional Information

• Professional maturity, integrity, discipline, and a positive attitude.

• Ability to work in a fast-paced, team environment.

• thoughtful, organized, and disciplined: You take initiative and ownership to see things through to completion and empower others to do the same.

• Entrepreneurial spirit: you’re agile, creative, resourceful, and tenacious as you solve problems and achieve team and company goals.

EEB Department Assistant - (Job ID 39926)

The Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, located in the Coastal Biology Building on the Coastal Science Campus, is a dynamic group comprised of instructional and research units and a variety of support programs and facilities with a staff committed to providing excellent service to students, faculty, and researchers.  The department has approximately 1000 declared and proposed undergraduate students in four distinct programs and 90 graduate students working towards Ph.D. and Master's degrees.  EEB offers a significant number of courses (160 laboratory, seminar, and lecture courses with at least 200 secondary sections), many in support of other majors. The department is closely aligned with the research and faculty in Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology, Environmental Studies, and Ocean Sciences as well as outside agencies NOAA, NMFS, MBARI, California Academy of Sciences, and others. 

Under the direction of the Department Manager, the incumbent is responsible for providing academic and administrative support to the department in all functional areas. Primary areas of responsibility include support for academic personnel actions, curriculum, and instructional support, financial transactions, web management, and special projects. These duties require staying up to date with ever-changing campus policies, procedures, and systems related to all aspects of working at UC Santa Cruz.

Classification: BLANK AST 3 (4722)

Salary range: $24.64 - $26.99/hour. Salary commensurate with skills, qualifications, and experience. 

Work schedule and Location:  Full-time, 100% time (40 hrs per week) at the Coastal Science Campus, 130 McAllister Way

EEB welcomes applications from current UCSC staff and external applicants.

Internal candidates apply here.

External candidates apply here.

The initial review date is August 17, 2022. 

Questions can be directed here: szak@ucsc.edu

CSUEB CS Tenure-Track Positions Available

Research Intern, Computer Vision - Deep Learning position at Goodmaps

• Pursuing a Ph.D or MS in Computer Engineering/Science, or equivalent research experience
• Excellent knowledge of computer vision theories and practices