Join us for the first postdoc party in 2022! Saturday February 12th, 3pm-sunset, at Seabright Beach East (see pinned map).
We’ll gather at the volleyball courts around a slackline. In case of rain, look for a blue portable canopy.
No registration necessary. Come with your partners/kids/friends/pets, plenty of space on the beach.
What to bring with you: comfy clothes, usual beach stuff, ligt food & drinks to share. Volleyball net and a ball would be great too!
USPA would like to invite you to this year’s Halloween party on Friday, 10/29, starting at 6pm at Black Beach.
Costumes are non-negotiable (even a funny hat counts as a costume!). Bring drinks and food of your preference. Bring friends and loved ones. We’ll make sure there’s fire to warm us all up and provide the perfect backdrop for scary Halloween stories 👻
If you have any questions please contact Oskar and Tufa, preferably on the postdoc Slack or alternatively email (oelek@ucsc.edu, tassafa@ucsc.edu).
It’s Postdoc Appreciation Week! Join the USPA’s celebration the evening of September 24 5pm for a casual social gathering of camaraderie and food at Natural Bridges.
Edit: Thanks for coming everyone, it was fun! And thank you for bringing spikeball!
Other events this week:
We’ll have Bill Lindstaedt’s always-popular Industry Job Search workshop on Friday, October 1 (9:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m.) at the Graduate Student Commons, Study Lounge 204.
More information and registration link at https://graddiv.ucsc.edu/grad-horizons/alt-academic-job-search/industry-jobs-gs-pd.html
We’ll have a USPA-sponsored potluck dinner Friday, July 30th at 4 pm (PST). We will prepare food and drinks for everyone, but please feel free to bring something to share so we have good variety.
Address: 1140 Western Dr, Santa Cruz, CA 95060
Please register here by July 25th if you plan to attend so we can plan how much food to buy and make.
Come and enjoy good food, good conversation, and a sweet mini poodle!
The grant writing workshops will be held in Fall 2021. There will be a seminar (Sept 20) and a multi-session workshop in Oct-Nov where the attendees can practice writing their grant and reviewing each other proposals.
These grant writing workshops are organized by the IBSC and offered to IRACDA postdocs and other UCSC postdocs. More information at https://ibsc.ucsc.edu/postdoc-training/grant-writing-workshop
When: Wednesday 3/24 11am-12pm
Where: Zoom
Chalk Talk Presenter: John Dzimianski, UCSC Postdoc in Biomolecular Engineering
Description: We will briefly cover what is expected of academic tenure track job applicants in the interview chalk talk, and how this format is unique from the “job talk” seminar. Then, we will watch one UCSC postdoc who is currently on the job market deliver a practice chalk talk for a mock faculty search panel.
This event is part of a monthly virtual event series organized by the USPA. Each month, we 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.