BSOE Graduate Student Newsletter
New Announcements
You’re invited! Graduate student career development surveyCalifornia Public Utilities Commission Energy Division Virtual Open House - Wednesday, April 12th / Thursday, April 13th
Announcements
Baskin Engineering PhD Hooding Ceremony May 20, 2023Spring 2023 University Deadlines
New Course this Spring! BME118/ 218: Mathematics of the Mind
Winter 2023 University Deadlines
GANAS VOCES Drafting Stages Workshop
2024 UC-National Lab In-Residence Graduate Fellowship Opportunity Now Available
You’re invited! Graduate student career development survey
California Public Utilities Commission Energy Division Virtual Open House - Wednesday, April 12th / Thursday, April 13th
Call for Papers: UCLA Q Grad
STEM: DOE Office of Science Graduate Student Research Awards
Announcements
Baskin Engineering PhD Hooding Ceremony May 20, 2023
As part of the 25th anniversary celebration of the Baskin School of Engineering, you are invited to participate in a Baskin Engineering hooding ceremony on Saturday, May 20, 2023 at 1 pm, followed by a reception for your friends, family members, advisors, and Baskin graduate student alumni. The events will take place in the Baskin Engineering Auditorium and courtyard.
Please complete this form by April 4 to indicate your participation on May 20.
Note that the campus will host the usual commencement ceremonies in June. In addition to the May hooding ceremony, you are welcome to participate in the Graduate Division Slug Crossing on Saturday, June 17, 2023. More information is available on the UCSC Commencement website.
Spring 2023 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.
Tuesday, April 11th 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.
Tuesday, April 11th 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
Thursday, April 13th Deadline To Apply For Degree
If you plan to complete your MS or PhD this quarter (Spring 2023), 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 21st 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, June 2nd 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, June 2nd 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 31st Leave of Absence Fall 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
New Course this Spring! BME118/ 218: Mathematics of the Mind
Join David Haussler this Spring Quarter for BME 118/218: Mathematics of the Mind! This course counts for the graduate Neuroscience Designated Emphasis.
It will explore mathematical theories of brain circuits, knowledge representation, and learning in animals. As a highlight, students build Jupyter notebooks that interact with lab-grown human cerebral organoids to explore adaptive processes in neural circuits.
Winter 2023 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.
Wednesday, January 18th 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.
Wednesday, January 18th 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, January 19th Deadline To Apply For Degree
If you plan to complete your MS or PhD this quarter (Winter 2023), 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.
Monday, January 30th 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, March 10th 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, March 10 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, March 24th Leave of Absence Fall 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.
GANAS VOCES Drafting Stages Workshop
2024 UC-National Lab In-Residence Graduate Fellowship Opportunity Now Available
The RFP includes the following:
- Program goals, guidelines, submission deadlines, and eligibility requirements;
- Program contacts at the UC Laboratory Fees Research Program and National Laboratories;
- Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs); and
- Instructions for submitting the required Letter of Intent.
Key Dates
Program Information Sessions:
Tuesday, April 25, 9-10am Pacific Time (Register here)
Friday, April 27, 11am-12pm Pacific Time (Register here)
Letters of Intent (LOI) due: Thursday, June 1, 2023 at 12:00 noon Pacific Time
Full proposals due: Thursday, September 7, 2023 at 12:00 noon Pacific Time
Graduate Fellowship start date: April 1, 2024
You may contact us at UCRI@ucop.edu for additional guidance. Please check our website periodically for Program announcements throughout the application cycle:
http://ucop.edu/research-
Thank you for your interest in this funding opportunity.
You’re invited! Graduate student career development survey
Are you an MS or PhD student in computer science?
You’re invited to join a research study on the career development of graduate students in computer science.
Take a 5-minute survey and enter into a drawing for one of three $50 gift cards.
California Public Utilities Commission Energy Division Virtual Open House - Wednesday, April 12th / Thursday, April 13th
The California Public Utilities Commission Energy Division is hosting Virtual Open House sessions on Wednesday, April 12th at 1 p.m. (PST) and Thursday, April 13th, 2023 at 9 a.m. (PST) and 12 p.m. (PST) for interested job seekers and potential candidates.
In summary, there will be three sessions in total:
Wednesday, April 12th: 1 p.m. (PST)
Thursday, April 13th: 9 a.m. (PST) and 12 p.m. (PST)
If interested in attending any one of these sessions, please reply to this email with the date and time you would like to attend.
Please visit the California Public Utilities Commission Energy Division website for more information.
https://www.cpuc.ca.gov/about-
Please note: the Energy Division currently has open positions which are suitable for graduate students, PhDs, and those with some experience.
You may also email us at EnergyDivisionRecruiting@cpuc.
Call for Papers: UCLA Q Grad
UCLA QGrad
Conference 2023
New Coalitions
Call for Papers
Queerness is where we can expand, rather than limit, the spaces of possibility for self
and collective expression and engagement with the world.
- Dr. Sa’ed Atshan, Keynote Speaker
UCLA LGBT Studies’ 26th QGrad Conference is seeking graduate student papers that speak to the theme: “New Coalitions.” We hope that this year's conference will generate rich discussions about past, present, and future solidarities between queer and other social justice movements across the world. We wish to foster intellectual and activist commitments that are intersectional, global, and anti-imperialist, and we encourage submissions from all fields of study. Possible submission topics include, but are not limited to, past, emerging, and potential connections between Queer/LGBTQIA+ theory/movements and one or more of the following:
• decolonization, anti-war, and non-violence movements.
• racial justice and prison abolition.
• economic equality and mutual aid.
• health, disability, and neurodivergence.
• reproductive rights.
• transgender and gender equality.
• climate and food security.
We also welcome submissions that consider:
• comparative modalities of activism, political engagement, and agency.
• thinking with, through, against, and beyond human rights frameworks.
• solidarities made possible or hindered by digital, transnational technologies.
• collaborations between theorists, activists, and artists.
• the affective contours of coalition building and sustaining.
• Intersections and disjunctures between humanist and posthuman discourses.
This list is by no means exhaustive, but as you consider your submission, keep in mind the overall theme of past, emerging, and potential connections across boundaries that have conventionally been kept or considered separate.
Apply here (Google Form):
https://forms.gle/
The last day to submit to the CFP is Wednesday, March 15th, at 11:59pm PST. Contributions are welcomed from all disciplines and should be in alignment with the theme. Interested students should submit 500-word abstracts along with their CV and a short 150-word bio.
This year’s conference will be held on Friday, May 19, 2023 at UCLA, a land grant institution whose formation rests upon the dispossession of the Gabrielino and Tongva/Kizh peoples, the traditional caretakers of this land, whose history and presence resonates through this event and our every day.
The conference will be held entirely in person, and this year we are happy to offer conference participants from outside of UCLA partially subsidized accommodations at the UCLA Guest House (more information about this will be shared upon acceptance to present at the conference).
Please direct questions to uclalgbtq@gmail.com
More about the Keynote
Upon his graduation from Swarthmore College, our distinguished Keynote speaker, Dr. Sa’ed Atshan, received an award the institution named that year—the Edward Said/Audre Lorde Scholar-Activist Award. The critical legacy memorialized in this honorary title aptly captures Professor Atshan’s commitments, and is evident across his work: from his efforts to work with Israelis and Germans to repair the wretched reality in Palestine/Israel; to his current research about the parallels and disjunctures between African-American and Palestinian Quakers; to his ongoing study about LGBTQ movements across North Africa and the Middle East. The UCLA LGBT Studies program shares professor Atshan’s conviction that new coalitions are the way forward.
Interested in Volunteering?
LGBTQ Studies is currently seeking volunteers who are interested in supporting this year’s conference on Friday, May 19th. Volunteer activities include registration support, reception set up, room management, and other general activities. For those interested, please reach out to the conference organizers at UCLALGBTQ@gmail.com.
STEM: DOE Office of Science Graduate Student Research Awards
Last week, the Department of Energy announced that the Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program is now accepting applications for the 2023 Solicitation 1 cycle. Applications are due 5:00pm Eastern Time on Wednesday, May 3, 2023.
The SCGSR program provides supplemental awards to outstanding U.S. graduate students to conduct part of their graduate theses research at a DOE national laboratory or facility in collaboration with a DOE laboratory scientist — with the goal of preparing graduate students for scientific and technical careers critically important to the DOE Office of Science mission. The research opportunity is expected to advance the graduate students’ overall doctoral theses while providing access to the expertise, resources, and capabilities available at the host DOE laboratories
SCGSR application assistance workshops will be held on March 9, 2023, 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM ET and April 20, 2023, 2:00 PM – 4:30 PM ET. The first workshop will provide a general overview of the program and the application requirements and will include a time for discussing potential research topics with the program managers; register here. The second workshop will guide attendees through the application process, answer general questions, provide guidance on proposal writing and feature discussions with scientists and former awardees; register here.
Jobs
Title IX is Hiring Graduate Student Interns
The Title IX/Equity and Equal Protection Office is hiring graduate student interns interested in working on projects related to education, policies/procedures, and media and public awareness efforts concerning sex discrimination, including sexual violence and sexual harassment (SVSH). See flyer below.
Roles and responsibilities may include:
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Co-developing trainings and presenting to various student groups and campus partners
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Designing programming and events related to SVSH prevention
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Maintaining WCMS for Title IX website
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Conducting surveys and research
Pay: $26/hr
Hours: 3-6/week (flexible with additional hours over the summer as desired)
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Remote hybrid work opportunities available
We also encourage graduate students to propose their own ideas for projects and events to address SVSH.
For more information and to apply, please see the posting on Handshake (# 7549227; https://ucsc.joinhandshake.
Postdoc Opportunity
Jennifer Doudna <https://doudnalab.org/> and Benjamin Rubin
<https://www.therubinlab.org/> are recruiting a jointly supervised postdoc
to work on in situ DNA editing of microbiomes at UC Berkeley. The candidate
will join a highly collaborative team of researchers in the two labs, who
are tightly integrated with the broader Innovative Genomics Institute’s
Precision Microbiome Editing Initiative
<https://innovativegenomics.or
will build on proof-of-principle community editing experiments
<https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.g
modification of microbiome members. This work relies on developing and
using novel CRISPR-Cas editing systems, sequence-based tracking of edits,
and next-generation tools for in situ control of edited organisms. The
postdoc will collaborate with a multidisciplinary group from UCSF, LBNL,
JBEI, and Cedar-Sinai to apply microbiome editing to understand and control
impactful microbial communities such as those in the human gut, cow rumen,
and the rhizosphere. Potential projects range from identifying and
modifying microbes with causal roles in inflammatory bowel disease and
asthma, to mitigating methane emissions from livestock.
If you are interested you can find more information and apply here
<https://aprecruit.berkeley.ed
Molecular Biologist/Biochemist - Tenure Track - Rhode Island College
Job Description: 2023B_MolecularBiologist_Poster.pdf
Cellular Biologist/Biochemist - Tenure Track - Rhode Island College
Job Description: 2023A_CellBiologist_Poster.pdf
Graduate Student Opportunity with HSI Cultivamos Excelencia
The HSI Cultivamos Excelencia team at UCSC is seeking a highly motivated and dedicated graduate student to fill the position of Cultivamos Excelencia Graduate Pathways Coordinator.
Among a variety of responsibilities, the Graduate Pathways Coordinator will be responsible for hiring, training, and leading a group of graduate student mentors within the Research Scholars component of the Cultivamos Excelencia HSI grant who will then provide mentorship to undergraduate transfer students in a small cohort setting.
The position is for up to 20 hours per week AND includes in-state/resident tuition and fees during the fall, winter, and spring terms. For more information please review the full job description here (must log into UCSC Handshake). And if interested, apply by April 10, 2023.
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