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PostDoc Holiday Party 2020
Since curtailment season is upon us (YAY!) but Santa Cruz is a purple COVID-zone (booo) the UCSC STEAM Postdoctoral Association cordially invites you to a virtual evening of holiday merriment! (but we promise, it’s NOT on Zoom!)
PLACE (sort of): https://spatial.chat/s/USPAHoliday
TIME: Monday, December 21st at 6 PM
$$ PRIZES: Best ‘Ugly’ Sweater, Cookie Decorating, Pet Costume
Please fill out this form to RSVP*
*You don’t have to RSVP to come, but you DO have to RSVP to get a free holiday goodie/food basket!
So come celebrate the winter holidays with other postdocs! Eat, drink, be merry, and let’s give ourselves a couple hours break from the ridiculousness that has been 2020!
[USPA Monthly Virtual Event Series] Industry Job Hunting: One Postdoc’s Personal Experiences and Tips
The UCSC STEM Postdoc Association (USPA) welcomes you to the first installment of our new monthly event series – Industry Job Hunting: One Postdoc’s Personal Experiences and Tips.
Speaker: Jason Fernandes (former UCSC Postdoc and USPA Board Member, now at Scribe Therapeutics)
This Friday (12/4) at noon on Zoom
Description: Talk and Q&A workshop from one of UCSC’s postdocs who recently made the leap to industry. Jason will cover:
– Strategies he used to find and apply for jobs
– How he navigated the interview and offer processes
This event is the first in a new virtual event series organized by the USPA. Each month, we will host a workshop or seminar that either offers career development support or highlights some of the amazing research conducted by postdocs on campus. If you are interested in suggesting a workshop or presenting your research, please let us know at uspa@ucsc.edu.
Join the UCSC STEM Postdoc Association!
Are you seeking a community at Santa Cruz or just looking to get more involved? Don’t wait until you “get that paper into Science” or “get that job offer’. The USPA can help with those things and more!
The UCSC STEM Postdoc Association (USPA) is UCSC’s grassroots postdoc association that was built by postdocs in 2015 to offer career development and community-building activities to the underserved postdoc community at UCSC. Over the past five years, we have built up a solid network of internal and external funding sources, which pay for our workshops, social events, and annual symposium. Our only limiting resource is postdocs like you!
While the USPA was originally built to serve the community outwardly, the association has had a large positive effect on its own members. Through accessing valuable institutional knowledge and networking opportunities, our postdoc representatives have been awarded prestigious fellowships and received competitive industry offers while serving on the board. Thus, although it may seem like volunteering for the USPA would limit your time for research, the outcome is in fact the opposite for most people.
If interested, please come to our next board meeting via Zoom at 3pm next Thursday, November 5th, 2020. We will be discussing plans for our socially-distanced upcoming year and we will be deciding roles for the next USPA board of representatives, which includes the following positions: Chair, Vice-Chair, Treasurer, Secretary, Symposium Co-chairs (2), and Social Event Coordinator.
Quick survey about 2020-21 events
A new academic year is upon us, but with COVID, things can’t exactly be “business as usual”. The UCSC STEM Postdoc Association (USPA), UCSC’s grassroots postdoc association, regularly hosts a range of workshops, social events, and symposia for our postdoc community. As not all of these events are equally amenable to virtual formats, we would appreciate your feedback about what events you would like to attend and/or participate in over the current academic year.
Please complete this quick 6-question survey to help us decide what events to offer virtually in the 2020-21 academic year.
Thanks for your input!