Welcome to the UC Santa Cruz Postdocs Association webpage!

The USPA is a postdoctoral-led organization that aims to provide career training and resources to postdoctoral scholars here at UC Santa Cruz. Each year the USPA organizes a symposium, and a series of workshops to highlight postdoctoral research, provides postdocs with career planning support, and build a stronger postdoc community.  Our goal is to create a welcoming environment for new postdocs and a supportive group of peers to navigate this pivotal career stage together.

The USPA is part of the larger network of Bay Area Postdocs.

Activities of USPA include:

  • postdoc science and social hour
  • career development workshops
  • annual symposium

Check out our upcoming events and:

Latest from USPA

4/25 – Postdoc Hacks! Meet other postdocs who program

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Do you use programming or computational skills in your research?  Want to meet up with other postdocs to co-work, share skills, and be part of a community of programmers on campus? Join us for the inaugural Postdoc Hacks meet up on April 25th! We’ll have coffee and snacks!
You can give a short talk on your skills, bring some code you’re working on, brainstorm over a debugging issue, or just come and hang out!
Please sign-up at the link below or scan the QR code in the flier: https://forms.gle/tYRcGzxqwzcYsDmu5

Postdoc Hike: Fern Grotto at Wilder State Park

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When: March 25, 2023 at 10AM for about 3 hours

Where: Meet at the picnic benches in front of the USGS Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center (2885 Mission St, Santa Cruz, CA 95060)  which is Bus accessible OR at Wilder State Park around 10:30 ($10 vehicle day-use fee to park in the actual park). There is free parking outside the park, but it fills up fast on the weekends.

Distance: Fern Grotto loop only ~2.5 miles loop.  If you are starting at the USGS, we will walk the 1.5 miles (there and back) to Wilder park to start the hike (total ~6 miles).

Difficulty level is Easy (https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/california/old-landing-cove-trail). Epic views of the coastline and a visit to one of the few fern grottos out of the tropics!

Please bring at least a liter of water and any snacks you would like during the hike.

Contact Brian if you have any questions: email: brmullen@ucsc.edu or cell: (916)212-5640

March 2nd 9:00-11:00a How to Become an Efficient Academic Writer

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The UCSC Postdoc Association (USPA) and the Division of Graduate Studies are happy to announce the upcoming workshop How to Become an Efficient Academic Writer: Integration of Zotero and Research Rabbit to Enhance Academic Writing taking place on Thursday, March 2 from 9:00-11:00 am.
This will be a virtual presentation (via Zoom) presented by Mushtaq Bilal, Ph.D. and will cover the basics of these two powerful tools and how to integrate them for efficient and productive writing.
The event is free and open to all postdocs and graduate students, but registration is required.