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RMI Scholarship Applications Now Open! Attend an Info Session!

Dear Students,

Applications are now open for the 2022-2023 Research Mentoring Internship (RMI) program for undergraduate students interested in pursuing research projects in areas relevant to genomics or genetics, including the ethical, legal, and social implications of genomics/genetics research. Recipients will receive a $3000 scholarship each quarter (renewable up to six quarters), hands-on experience performing wet lab, computational, or ELSI research, and professional development and networking opportunities. 

 

If you know of a student who may be interested, please encourage them to attend our virtual information session (opens Zoom link): April 25 at 4:00PM to learn more about the program. 

 

For more information, please contact Yemi Akintunde, program coordinator, at oakintun@ucsc.edu.

 

Applications are due May 6, 2022.

 

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Brave the Shave Cancer Research Fundraiser

Ever wondered what you would look like bald?!

Find out at Treehouse Cancer Initiative's annual Brave the Shave fundraiser, sponsored by the Genomics Institute. Volunteers spend the weeks proceeding the event raising money by agreeing to shave their heads. Sign up to shave your head by clicking “join us” on our donation page (link below), or sponsor one of our shavees by clicking on their participant’s name.

On May 4th, join us at the Westside Research Park at 3pm to cheer on our volunteers as they shave their heads!

Volunteer or Donate at go.ucsc.edu/Shave

Questions? Contact Rose Miyatsu for more information.

UCUES Survey

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Joby Aviation - Security Internship Opportunity

Please send your resume to security.internship@jobyaviation.com

Digital NEST Flight Conference is May 4-5 & FREE to the First 20 to Register!

REGISTER HERE for your FREE ticket!

Join STEM Hub's Slug Care Workshop on May 11th!

The STEM Hub is hosting its Slug Care Workshop on May 11th from 6:30-7:30 PM. This event will be hosted virtually via Zoom, with the room linked on the flyer below. We want your help to reach as many students as possible! If you could share this information through your newsletters, canvas pages, and/or other media you use to inform students it would help a lot. We have attached our flyer and link to the RSVP form below.

RSVP Form Link: https://forms.gle/xfhxuUPpVbJwdxv5A

Looking for TIM 175 Reader/Tutor with Experience in Either Airtable or Wordpress/Wix

TIM 175 (Business Strategy and Information Systems) is looking for a reader/tutor with significant experience using Airtable and a reader/tutor with experience using Wordpress/Wix. You will be working closely with students using those tools to create databases, workflows and websites for a non-profit. If you have significant experience with either of these tools, please send an email to dlee105@ucsc.edu by May 7th describing your experience as well as providing a portfolio that showcases your work.

Announcing the UCSC 2022 Deep Read-Yaa Gyasi’s Transcendent Kingdom

This year we read Yaa Gyasi’s Transcendent Kingdom. Students are invited to read along with the broader campus community and think deeply about faith, science, addiction, and race in our contemporary moment. Read, think deeply with us, and meet the author May 15 at the Quarry Amphitheater. 

Students can get a FREE copy of the book while supplies last:  https://thi.ucsc.edu/deepread

2022 ASEE Student Showcase at the ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition!

NEST Flight 2022 - Career Development Conference for Students - May 4th & 5th

Digital NEST is hosting its 4th NEST Flight conference on May 4th and May 5th. NEST Flight is a career development conference for young professionals (ages 17-24) currently exploring their career journey. UCSC and Baskin School of Engineering have been one of our biggest supporters and sponsors, and we'd love to have UCSC students attending and representing again in 2022! 

The conference is packed with inspiring speakers, hands-on workshops, powerful panel discussions, mentor and peer-to-peer networking sessions. We'll also have giveaways throughout both days of the conference!! Please share the graphic below with the students of UCSC's Baskin School of Engineering, thank you!

Free ticket option available at registration!! Register here.

Diverse Voices Speaker Series Starts April 20th!

Season 4 of our Diverse Voices Speakers Series starts April 20th. Please register here.

STEM Hub Hours

LSS Tutoring Sign Ups Open APRIL 4th!

­ Sign Ups for Tutoring  Open April 4th!  ­ Happy Start of the Quarter!        Learning Support Services is reaching because our tutoring sign ups open on April 4th and we'd love to see you attend!    Our experienced tutors can help with exams, homework, studying strategies, and community building! Sign ups are first come, first serve, so don't wait!   ­ Sign Up Now!  ­ ­ How do you sign up to reserve your spot? You can sign up through Tutor Trac. Please refer to our website for written instructions and video tutorials. When signing up, make sure to check what program your class is supported by. See the list below to figure that out!  You will also have the option to sign up for remote or in-person tutoring. Choose the subcenter that corresponds with the option you'd like! ­ ­ ­   Check out our Class Supported!  ­ MSI + SI Courses  ­ ­ ­ ­ Biology + BIOE  ­ BIOL 100-001 BIOL 101-001 BIOL 105-001  BIOL 20A-001 (SI) BIOE 20C-01 (SI)  ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ Chemistry  ­ CHEM 1B-001 CHEM 8B-001 ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ Computer Science and Engineering ­ CSE 12-001 (SI) CSE 13S-001 CS3 16-001 CSE 101-001 CSE 102-001 CSE 107-001 CSE 120-001 ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ Mathematics ­ MATH 3-001 MATH 11A-001 MATH 23A-002 ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ Physics ­ PHYS 6A-001 (SI) PHYS 6B ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ Small Group Tutoring  ­ ­ ­ ­ Applied Mathematics ­ AM 10-01 AM 11A-001/ECON 11A-001 AM 11B-001/ECON 11B     ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ Biology + BIOE ­ BIOL 105-001 BIOL 130-001 BIOL 20A-001   BIOE 20B-001 ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ Chemistry  ­ CHEM 1A-001 CHEM 8B-01 ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ Engineering ­ Bio-molecular  BME 160-001   Electrical  ECE 183-001   ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ Computer Science and Engineering ­ CSE 16-001 CSE 20-001/04 CSE 30-001 CSE 100-001 CSE 103-001 CSE 111-001 CSE 183-001 ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ Languages ­ Chinese CHIN 3-01/02 CHIN 6-001   French  FREN 4    German  GERM 2 GERM 3     ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ Economics ­ ECON 1-001 ECON 2-001 ECON 100A-001 ECON 100B-001/02 ECON 113-002 ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ Languages ­ Italian  ITAL 1-001 ITAL 1B-001   Japanese JAPN 105-001 JAPN 3-001/02/03/04 JAPN 6-001/02    ­ ­ ­ ­ Legal Studies/Politics ­ LGST 105D-001/POLI 105D LGST 120C-001/POLI 120C   POLI 140C-001 POLI 160D-001  ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ Linguistics ­ LING 50-01 LING 100-001 LING 101-001 LING 112-001 LING 113-001 ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ Literature ­ LIT 184A-001 LIT 186B-001 ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ Mathematics ­ MATH 11B-001 MATH 100-001 MATH 117-001 MATH 110-001 MATH 19A-001 MATH 19B-001/02 MATH 21-001 MATH 23A-001 MATH 23B-001 MATH 24-001 ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ Music ­ MUSC 30A-001 MUSC 30C-001 ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ Physics ­ PHYS 5B-001 PHYS 6C-001 ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ Psychology ­ PSYCH 1-001 PSYC 10-001 PSYC 100-001 ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ Spanish ­ SPAN 2-01/02 SPAN 3-01/02/03 SPAN 4-01/02/03 SPAN 5-001/02 SPAN 6-001 SPHS 6-01/02 ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ Statistics ­ STAT 7-001/02 STAT 131-001 ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ Learning Support Services  University of California, Santa Cruz Located at the ARCenter ­     ­ ­

UC Global Health Day 2022 at UC Santa Cruz, May 7, 2022

The UC Global Health Institute (UCGHI) and the UC Santa Cruz Institute for Social Transformation are co-hosting this year’s UC Global Health Day 2022 on Saturday, May 7 at UC Santa Cruz from 8:30am – 6pm PT (in-person and virtually). This day-long collaborative global health conference showcases the innovative research and initiatives occurring across the University of California. This year’s theme of Centering Social Justice in Community Health is exemplified by our diverse speakers who are actively engaged across a variety of disciplines and doing work that has benefited communities at local and global levels. 

Registration Link: tinyurl.com/UCGHD2022 

CSE 183 (Web Applications) is Looking for Tutors

Spring CSE 183 is looking for tutors!  The tutors should be familiar with web app development, and preferably they should have taken CSE 183 based on the py4web framework in the past.

Interested students should apply to rta.soe.ucsc.edu

Looking for successful students for Blog Interviews - FAANG Principal Engineer answers common career questions

Hi Everyone! 

We're a group of UCSC students building Pathfinder - our mission is to bring transparency to different career paths. We're currently looking for students who have successful track record of getting internships or offers from reputable tech companies to do a blog interviews with us. 

Here's a recent blog article we posted - FAANG Principal Engineer Answers Common Career Questions

More about Pathfinder, we are top 15 teams out of 460+ teams in Tiger Launch - World's Biggest student run Entrepreneurship Competition. Pathfinder is a crowdsourcing platform where any professional can share insights about their job concisely to help others navigate career paths. If you're passionate about our mission and have experiences in Web Dev, UIUX, or Product/Marketing, please reach out to us - team@pathfinder.fyi

Join UCSC's Rocket Team

UCSC's Rocket Team is looking for new members!

We're a student-led group that participates in various aerospace projects throughout the year. Our main focus has been NASA's Student Launch, a university-level national competition which requires us to build large high powered rockets and launch them.

Our team also focuses on various other kinds of aerospace projects as well, so if you're into space, spacecraft, aviation, or just want to do something that's fun, then join Rocket Team! Be a part of the team by joining the Slack using this link.

Our general meetings this quarter are on Sundays at 2pm at E2 599, but you can still be part of the team even if you can't make it! 

GraceHacks Team Application

Are you interested in organizing a hackathon? GraceHacks is looking for organized, reliable individuals to join their Tech, Design, PR, Logistics, and Sponsorship teams! You will be given the opportunity to help host workshops and assist participants during the hackathon. Team members will gain valuable experience planning this event as well as various workshops during the year. Through this experience, you will learn to work in a collective team and help other teams within GraceHacks. GraceHacks promotes growth and curiosity in its team members and is accepting applications until May 31st at 11:59 PM. Prior experience is preferred, but not necessary! Apply here, and email info@grace-hacks.com for any questions.

Events

UC Santa Cruz CIDER + Skydrio Drone Technology Demo

Would your work or research benefit from drone technology? Interested in learning how to fly drones? Join us on May 17 for a half-day drop in-opportunity to fly Skydio autonomous drones and demo software solutions.

The Skydio team will be on hand to give attendees hands-on flight time and a live look into cutting-edge drone technology. Staff from the CITRIS Initiative for Drone Education and Research (CIDER) will talk about research and educational applications for autonomous drones. Refreshments provided.

Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/uc-santa-cruz-cider-skydio-drone-technology-demo-tickets-326079371177