Category Archives: Professionalization

Now Hiring: Two Graduate Student Advocate Positions

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Below is the announcement for two open
Graduate Student Advocate positions in the Graduate School:
The Graduate Student Advocate for Student Relations and the
Graduate Student Advocate for Diversity Outreach.

Applications are welcome from PhD students in all fields.

The deadline to apply is Friday, June 7th.
View the job posting as a PDF: GSA Announcement 2013-14

Fulbright Student Grant Info Session and other Fulbright Opportunities

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The final Fulbright Student Grant information session of the semester will be held
Thursday, April 25th from 3:30pm-4:30pm in Leavey Library Auditorium.

Come learn about the Fulbright Student Grant from fellow USC Trojan, Paige Battcher, as she discusses her experience as a Fulbright Scholar. Fulbright advisors will also present information regarding the USC Fulbright application process.

If you would like more information about the Fulbright program but are unable to attend the session, please contact our office at aifstaff@usc.edu to schedule an appointment with an advisor. 

The Fulbright Student Grant is available to undergraduate and graduate students in any major field of study. U.S. citizenship is required.

Visit http://usfulbrightstudent.blogspot.com/2009/08/paige-battcher-2008-2008-thailand.html to learn more about Paige’s Fulbright Scholar experience.

 

ADDITIONAL FULBRIGHT OPPORTUNITIES:
Fulbright Scholar Program
http://www.cies.org/us_scholars/us_awards/
Deadline: August 1, 2013

Basic Eligibility Requirements:
– Applicants must have U.S. citizenship
– A Ph.D. or equivalent professional/terminal degree (including the master’s degree, depending on the field) as appropriate. Candidates outside academe (e.g., professionals, artists) need recognized professional standing and substantial professional accomplishments.

Fulbright Flex Awards
http://www.cies.org/us_scholars/us_awards/catalog/2014-2015/FLEX/
Deadline: August 1, 2013

For scholars who propose multiple stays of one to three months in the host country over a period of two to three years.  The total proposed visits should equal approximately one semester of exchanges.  In addition to their primary research or teaching activities, flex award scholars will be asked to give public talks, mentor students, and otherwise engage with the host-country academic community.

Fulbright Postdoctoral/Early Career Grants
http://www.cies.org/us_scholars/us_awards/catalog/2014-2015/POSTDOC/
Deadline: August 1, 2013

Postdoctoral/early career grants are open to U.S. scholars who have recently completed their doctoral degrees – typically within the five previous years. The number of such Fulbright Scholar awards has grown, particularly for research activities. A few awards include teaching opportunities as well.  Postdoctoral awards are available in STEM fields, the arts, humanities and social sciences.

UCLA-USC Holocaust and Genocide Studies Graduate Working Group

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The UCLA-USC Holocaust and Genocide Studies Graduate Working Group will hold its inaugural meeting — a research resources workshop — this Friday, April 12 from 9:30am to 1pm at USC. All graduate students interested in Holocaust and Genocide Studies are invited to attend.

Event information: 

9:30am – 10:00am — Introductions (SOS 250, History Department Conference Room)
10:00am – 10:55am — Information Session by Crispin Brooks, Curator of the USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive (Loc. TBD)
11:00am – 11:55am — Information Session by Lynn Sipe, Librarian for the USC Holocaust and Genocide Studies Collection (DML B-24, Location of the Collection)
12:00pm – 1:00pm — Lunch and discussion of research interests (SOS 250)

If you are already familiar with these resources and their plans for the future, then join the group for lunch and share your research interests.

Please contact Lori Rogers (lrogers@usc.edu), as soon as possible, to RSVP and indicate if you will only be joining for part of the day.

**UCLA students: Parking at USC is $10/day.  Carpooling is recommended. 

Group information:

A cross-campus initiative organized by Rachel Deblinger (UCLA, History) and Sari Siegel (USC, History), the UCLA-USC Holocaust and Genocide Studies Graduate Working Group aims to bring together graduate students from the Southern California Institutions with overlapping interests, in order to facilitate dialogue and further research across campuses and academic disciplines. After Friday’s research resources workshop at USC, our next meeting will take place at UCLA in the Fall of the 2013-2014 school year. We hope future meetings will support ongoing informal conversation and provide opportunities for participants to present papers, rehearse job talks, and engage prominent Holocaust or Genocide Studies scholars.

 

College Night at the Getty Center

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Mark your calendars for College Night at the Getty Center, taking place this coming Monday, April 15, 2013. This annual event includes special presentations and curator-led tours, music, and food for university students. This year, the featured exhibition is:

“Overdrive: L.A. Constructs the Future, 1940–1990,” featuring hundreds of drawings, photographs, architectural models, films, animations, oral histories, and more documenting how Los Angeles rapidly evolved into one of the most populous and influential industrial, economic, and creative capitals in the world.

Also on view are “Japan’s Modern Divide: The Photographs of Hiroshi Hamaya and Kansuke Yamamoto,” “In Focus: Ed Ruscha,” and “Looking East: Rubens’s Encounter with Asia,” as well as highlights from the Museum’s permanent collection, including masterpieces by Van Gogh, Monet, and others. 

Graduate students will also have the opportunity to talk to internationally exhibiting artist Sam Durant of CalArts and Getty staff members to discuss the exhibitions, exchange ideas about the role of museums in representing culture, and learn about a day in the life of designers, curators, and other staff members working at the Getty. Interested students may RSVP at the Getty website, http://www.getty.edu/education/college/center_collegenight_2013.html

Announcing the Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities at UC Berkeley

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The Dean of Arts and Humanities at the University of California, Berkeley is now accepting applications for the 2013-15 Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities, established with a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.  Four new fellows will be appointed for 2013-15, to teach and carry out research in a sponsoring department in the humanities.

Appointment will be for two years as a Visiting Assistant Professor. Fellows will be expected to teach one course per semester, for four consecutive semesters (not including summer sessions). Salary will be approximately $61,000 a year, with mid-level benefits. New Fellows will receive a $1,500 computer and technology allowance, and in each year of their appointment, Fellows will receive a flexible research fund of $5,000 to cover such costs as travel and research assistance.

The Application deadline is April 12, 2013.

This year’s eligible applicants must have received the PhD no earlier than July 1, 2010 and no later than June 30, 2013. UC Berkeley PhDs are not eligible for this fellowship.

For additional information and to submit an application online, please visit: http://ls.berkeley.edu/art-hum/mellon/Applicants may not hold an appointment in a tenure-track position, and Mellon Fellows may not hold any other appointment during the period of the fellowship. Applications from international scholars are accepted.

The University of California is an EO/AA/ADA employer.

 

5th Annual Graduate Research Symposium

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Question:
What do dark matter, eating disorders, air marshals, robots, ruins in Pompeii, Kodak cameras all have in common?

Answer:
They are all research subjects in the 5th Annual Graduate Research Symposium!

Join us Tuesday, April 2nd in the Tutor Campus Center Grand Ballroom for a showcase of the best graduate research at USC. This is the only university-wide academic event for graduate students. Similar to a “TED talk,” students will each present for 5 minutes with the help of a single power point slide. 

STEM (Sciences, Tech, Engineering, Math) Presentations take place from 9:00am-12:00pm
Social Sciences, Arts, Humanities Presentations take place from 12:30-3:30pm

Undergraduates welcomed! This is a great chance to learn about what graduate research is all about.

FREE Food and USC SWAG!!
More info here: http://tinyurl.com/USCGradsymp

RSVP kindly requested but not required. RSVP to: http://tinyurl.com/GRSrsvp