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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. 

  • Developing mathematical models for alzheimer’s research: the path of alumnus Dylan Esguerra

    Developing mathematical models for alzheimer’s research: the path of alumnus Dylan Esguerra

    Baskin Engineering alumnus Dylan Esguerra (M.S., Statistics, ’23) discovered his passion for statistics as a sophomore at UC Santa Cruz. Dylan pursued the 4+1 Statistical Science Program and had the opportunity to work with Adjunct Professor of Applied Mathematics Steve Munch to develop an algorithm for predicting animal populations over time.

  • 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…

  • CSE Event at the GSC – Getting the Job: A Microsoft Interview

    Learn what Microsoft Principal Architect Jeff Stock asks job applicants when they make it through preliminary interviews. Jeff will give examples of the technical questions he asks and the answers he expects to receive from good candidates. When: Friday, March 14th from 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm Where: GSC Fireside Lounge

  • UC Santa Cruz Graduate Student Survey – Now Open!

    The UC Santa Cruz Graduate Student Survey is now open in late winter and will be open through early spring quarter 2025.  All currently enrolled UC Santa Cruz graduate students are invited to participate.  Graduate students can access the survey at ucal.us/ucgsesucsc.   The survey allows Master’s and Doctoral students a formal way to give feedback on academic…

  • Announcing Limited Submission – Schmidt Science Fellows 2026

    We are pleased to announce the launch of Limited Submission – Schmidt Science Fellows 2026. Click on the link below to view more information. Thank you!  Internal Submission Deadline: Sunday, April 13, 2025 Cycle: 2026 Discipline/Subject Area: PhD Students in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Description: Limited Submission Funding Opportunityfrom the Offices of Research and Foundation Relations Internal Deadline:…

  • Frontiers of AI: Language, Inference, and Innovation – Live Event with Nathan Lambert, Alessio Fanelli and Dylan Patel

    Join us for a special LIVE EVENT in Silicon Valley on Friday, March 7 from 3:15pm to learn more about the Frontiers of AI. One of our amazing NLP-MS students, Sam Silver, is hosting a special event on the Silicon Valley campus where Nathan Lambert, Alessio Fanelli, and Dylan Patel will dive deep into the latest trends shaping the future of AI.…

  • Calling all Grad Students! Research Opportunity!

    Our team is looking to hire a continuing graduate student (either a Ph.D. student, or a master’s student in their first year) to maintain and grow a mobile phone app designed to increase the productivity of small and micro retail shops in developing countries. The current version of the app was created by a master’s…

  • How Keerthi Koneru contributed to the security of critical systems that millions rely on daily

    How Keerthi Koneru contributed to the security of critical systems that millions rely on daily

    Keerthi Koneru is a UC Santa Cruz class of 2024 computer science Ph.D. graduate. Drawn to UCSC’s Computer Science and Engineering Department for its focus on combining conceptual learning with practical application, her research focused on securing electrical substations against cyber threats by analyzing real-world vulnerabilities and developing tools to study malware interactions.

  • The Robert (Bob) Moses Scholarship

    The Robert (Bob) Moses Scholarship (PDF) supports the educational goal of a graduate student from an underrepresented group who is pursuing a master’s or doctoral degree in mathematics education or STEM discipline. Information about the scholarship is listed below. Apply today! Scholarship Award: $15,000Application Portal Opened: January 15, 2025Application Deadline: March 1, 2025Winner Notified: June…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

Last modified: Feb 24, 2025