Newsletter for 02/09/2025

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Key Winter 2025 Deadlines

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

KEY WINTER 2025 DEADLINES:

Thursday March 7th - Deadline for Grade Change Option: This is your last day to change your grading option for any courses you are enrolled in for winter 2025. 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 8th - Deadline for Late Add Permission: Deadline to add a class by permission or petition for winter 2025.

Friday March 21st - Deadline for Removal of Incomplete: Deadline to file petition and submit class work for winter 2025. Graduate Incomplete grade within the last three quarters. 

**Friday March 21st - Deadline for Completing Degree Requirements/Submission: Deadline to complete all degree requirements for winter 2025. *Students participating in commencement need to complete all requirements by May 31 to be listed in the program. 

Contra Costa Water District (CCWD): Internships Applications Due Feb 10!

The Contra Costa Water District (CCWD) has several exciting internship opportunities available for Spring and Summer 2025!

Additional info about the specific positions and the application process is provided below and also shared via Handshake.

Current Internships (Online application deadline: February 10, 2025):

• Construction Engineering Intern
  • Relevant Fields of Study: Civil/environmental engineering, construction engineering, construction management, and other related fields
  • Preferred Availability: Full-time or part-time during Spring 2025, and full-time during Summer 2025.

• Water Quality Intern
  • Relevant Fields of Study: Civil/environmental engineering, computer engineering/data science, chemistry, and other related fields
  • Preferred Availability: Full-time or part-time during Spring 2025, and full-time during Summer 2025.

• Diversity Equity & Inclusion Program Intern
  • ​​​Relevant Fields of Study: Public administration, business management, organizational development, human resources management, industrial/organizational psychology, and other related fields
  • Preferred Availability: Full-time or part-time for up to one year, beginning Spring 2025

Upcoming recruitments: More info coming soon!

• Environmental Planning & Watershed Management Intern
• Water Resources Intern

Additionally, check out Baywork, another great online resource to get connected to jobs and internships in the local water industry. 

When applicants visit www.ccwater.com/jobs and click on the “Employment Opportunities” link it will take them to the governmentjobs.com website where all CCWD job recruitments are posted.

Applicants must set up a profile on governmentjobs.com and submit an online application specific to each internship position for which they’d like to be considered.

Applicants are also encouraged to submit a Job Interest Card, to be alerted via email about future CCWD recruitments for “Internship” (and/or 39 other occupational categories).    

Program Contact: 

Steven Currie (he/him)

Workforce Development Program Manager

DEI Division

P    925-688-8295

C    925-471-2057

W   ccwater.com

Contra Costa Water District

2411 Bisso Lane, Concord, CA 94520

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BAYWORK Vice President

www.baywork.org

Hands-On Workshop: How to Write R Packages With Literate Programming

Hosted by Baskin Engineering's Statistics Department, this is a great workshop for students or researchers for whom writing and packaging R code is a core skill. 

In this workshop, we will demonstrate a simple new approach to writing R packages.  The idea is that you write a single R markdown file and then when you press knit, an R package will be created in addition to the usual html file.  Using this approach means that you can present your code in a logical, well explained fashion, complete with latex equations, section headings, figures, and examples.  Your research collaborators and your future self will find it easier to understand, modify, and extend code written this way.  Feel free to bring a laptop if you'd like to try it out during the workshop. 

For more on the approach we will be using, see here: https://jacobbien.github.io/litr-project/

There will be coffee and refreshments!

Speaker: Jacob Bien (USC)

Date/Time: Monday February 10, 2025, 9:00am - 10:30am PST

In Person Location: Engineering 2, Room 475

Zoom link: https://ucsc.zoom.us/j/98693644919?pwd=p07hv02AlmxYERFbwrkojzlTvHivWu.1

Dean's Travel Grant Decisions Out Mid-February!

The Dean's Travel Grant awards are adjudicated by the GSA (Graduate Student Association). Decisions are projected to be made by Mid-February.

However, even after the decisions are made, it will take some time to get the gift cards, enter the awards, fill out direct pay forms, etc.

Thus, recipients of the award should expect to treat it as a reimbursement as opposed to actually paying for their travel given the time it takes to process these awards. 

If you have further questions regarding the grant, please contact Graduate Student Services Coordinator Dana Eugenio at dmeugeni@ucsc.edu.

UCSA & UCGPC Optional Fees

Did you know that you can opt out of the UCSA or UCGPC Association charges by submitting an online form before the third-week deadline of the affected quarter? If you opted out and wish to opt-in, you will need to complete the same form. Follow the navigation below to access the form in your MyUCSC portal.

Instructions:
MyUCSC >> Graduate Student eForms tile >> UCGPC Registration Fee Opt-out link in the left navigation

Reminder: After the third week of instruction (the Add/Drop/Swap Deadline on the Academic and Administrative Calendar) you are no longer able to opt out of the fees for the current quarter, but you may opt out for future quarters. A refund of current fees may be directed to the UCSA or UCGPC.

2025 SFI Education programs for graduate students

The nonprofit Santa Fe Institute (SFI) focuses on research and training in the quantitative modeling of complex systems, including social, cultural, and political systems, and economies. We would be grateful if you could circulate the opportunities below to interested graduate students, postdocs, and other early-career researchers:
 
- Complex Systems Summer School:

• intensive 4-week residential program consisting of seminars, workshops, and group research projects.
• June 8 - July 4, 2025
• For eligibility, cost, and more information: https://santafe.edu/csss
• Application deadline: January 28, 2025: https://apply-sfi.smapply.org/prog/csss2025

- Graduate Workshop in Computational Social Science Modeling & Complexity:

• 2-week residential workshop, where graduate students (2nd year or later) add computational & modeling approaches to their existing thesis research.
• June 22 - July 4, 2025
• For eligibility, cost, and more information: https://santafe.edu/gwcss
• Application deadline February 27, 2025: https://apply-sfi.smapply.org/prog/gwcss2025

**Scholarships are available based on need.

SIP Summer Funding Opportunity: Call for Mentors!

We are actively recruiting graduate students, postdocs, research staff, and faculty across all subjects to serve as Mentors, in-person, for the Summer of 2025. As you plan for this summer, please consider including a few high school students to support your ongoing research. 

ABOUT THE SCIENCE INTERNSHIP PROGRAM (SIP)

SIP engages high school student Interns, ages 14-17, in university-level open-ended research projects in a variety of academic disciplines, including the arts, humanities, and social sciences. SIP Interns work in small groups of three or more, and each group is supervised by a PhD student, postdoc, or research staff Mentor. 

Over the course of the 8-week program, Interns will work on a specific research project under the direct supervision of their Mentor. While advancing their own research, Mentors will also support their Intern's critical and analytical thinking, skill acquisition, and confidence in a research setting.

Visit our 2024 Research Project page for more context about research projects and Intern tasks. We encourage you to watch our short SIP visual story and visit the SIP website to learn more.

TO APPLY:

Please fill out the SIP 2024 Mentor Application to submit your research for consideration for the 2025 program. All 2025 SIP Mentors will need to create an account and password to login (even if you were a SIP mentor in a previous summer).

• Applications Open: January 7, 2025

• APPLICATION DEADLINE: APRIL 15, 2025

STIPEND

This is a 30% appointment with Mentors expected to work 15 hours/week.

• Mentor Advisors (Graduate Students): $5,250

• Graduate Student Mentors: $4,750

• Postdocs, Research Staff Mentors: $2,750 (in lieu of PTO)

• Undergraduate Mentors: $2,750

IMPORTANT DATES

• Mentor Employment Dates: Friday, June 13 - Friday, August 15, 2025

• SIP Program Dates: Monday, June 16 - Saturday, August 9, 2025 

• Saturday, August 9, 2025: Presentation Day

Mentors must be available on campus for the 8-week program (June 16 - August 9), and maintain a minimum attendance of 80% (Monday-Friday). All meetings with Interns, except for the week of June 16, must be conducted in-person. Any time away from the program, with the exception of emergency or illness, must be pre-approved by SIP staff in advance of the appointment start date. Mentors are expected to facilitate Project Meetings at minimum 3 days per week, and work in-person with their Interns at minimum 9 hours per week. 

If you have any questions, please reach out to the SIP staff at hr-crest@ucsc.edu. We look forward to an exciting SIP program this summer!

Writing Support For UCSC Graduate Students!

The Writing Center offers UCSC graduate students one-on-one writing tutoring and supportive writing groups through the VOCES Program.  The VOCES Graduate Student Writing Center is staffed by advanced graduate students who serve as individual tutors and writing group mentors.  Bring us your budding ideas, your developing thoughts, your unpunctuated drafts, or your final polishing needs.  We are here to work with you and provide support for diverse writing needs!

Writing Process:

●      Prewriting

●      Writing

●      Revising

●      Exploring your writing process and understanding your strengths and needs

Academic/Creative Writing

●      Low-Stakes and High-Stakes Assignments

●      Graduate Seminar Papers

●      Proposals and Articles

●      Dissertation Chapters

●      Narrative and Fictional Writing

Professional Writing:

●      Resumes and CVs

●      Personal Statements & Artist Statements

●      Grant and Fellowship Applications

●      National Science Foundation Grant Writing

TO GET WRITING SUPPORT:

• Visit The Writing Center website and learn about us and our services
• Register, schedule an individual tutoring session (use the “VOCES Tutoring for Grad Students WIN2025” schedule)

• To inquire about joining a grad student writing group, email the Writing Center at writeon@ucsc.edu

All services are free, and take place online.  Services may be synchronous (online in real-time) or asynchronous (students submit writing to tutors in advance for review, the tutor then reads the document and provides feedback in writing (email) or in a Zoom meeting conversation.