General Resources
Weekly Announcements
Weekly Announcements from the Graduate Advisor are sent every Monday during the 10 weeks of each academic quarter. This includes featured announcements, upcoming events/trainings/workshops, and funding and employment opportunities.
Resources for New Students
Anthropology Graduate Student Information and Resources (sent annually to all Anthro students at the start of Fall Quarter)
Non-Academic UCLA Resources
Resources for Students in Financial Crisis (Economic Crisis Response Team)
Graduate Student Resources Guide by GSA
Access here. This is an interactive flowchart created by the UCLA Graduate Student Association (GSA).
Featured UCLA Tech Services
New UCLA students may need to wait until the start of Fall quarter to access these UCLA sponsored services as matriculation is only effective Fall.
Google Apps for UCLA
Google Apps for UCLA is a suite of hosted email and collaboration applications for schools, universities, and non-profit organizations. This suite of services includes Gmail (Google’s email service), Google Calendar, Google Docs (Google’s web-based office software suite), and more.
UCLA Enterprise Box Account
UCLA provides a free enterprise Box account to all faculty, staff, and students. Currently, a UCLA enterprise Box account comes with unlimited storage space for faculty, staff and students. All accounts offer a 15 gigabyte per file upload limit and other enterprise features such as version history.
Zoom at UCLA
Zoom is the primary approved software tool for remote live and recorded academic sessions and meetings. When logging into the Desktop Application, please type in ucla when asked for your company/organization domain.
Career Preparation
UCLA Career Services for Masters and PhD Students, and Postdoctoral Scholars: UCLA Career Services hosts events, opportunities, and workshops for professional development.
ImaginePhD is a free online career exploration and planning tool for PhD students and postdoctoral scholars in the humanities and social sciences.
Versatile PhD - The Versatile PhD mission is to help humanities and social science (and STEM as of July 2013) graduate students identify and prepare for possible non-academic careers. We want them to be informed about academic employment realities, educated about non-academic career options, and supported towards a wide range of careers, so that in the end, they have choices.
"The Early-Stage Ph.D.'s Guide to Summer" (Inside Higher Ed article)
The Professor Is In - Getting You Through Graduate School, The Job Market and Tenure…
Get a Life, PhD - Succeed in Academia and Have a Life Too
National Center for Faculty Development & Diversity
The National Center for Faculty Development & Diversity (NCFDD) provides professional development and mentoring opportunities for faculty, staff, graduate students, and postdocs. Instructions on how to register with UCLA:
Visit www.FacultyDiversity.org
Select the “Become a Member” tab
On "Choose Your Membership Type" select “Institutional Sub-Account” and click Continue
On the “Select a Username” page use your UCLA e-mail address in the Username box
Complete the registration process
Crowdfunding for Your Research
Experiment: Experiment is a platform for students and faculty to crowdfund small projects. The company was founded by a young scientist who hit the walls on traditional funding sources and figured out a way to fund small projects through crowdsourcing.
Productivity Apps
Cold Turkey: Cold Turkey is a productivity program that you can use to temporarily block yourself off of popular social media sites, addicting websites and games so that you can get your work done!
SelfControl: SelfControl is a free and open-source application for Mac OS X that lets you block your own access to distracting websites, your mail servers, or anything else on the Internet. Just set a period of time to block for, add sites to your blacklist, and click "Start." Until that timer expires, you will be unable to access those sites--even if you restart your computer or delete the application.
StayFocusd: StayFocusd is a productivity extension for Google Chrome that helps you stay focused on work by restricting the amount of time you can spend on time-wasting websites. Once your allotted time has been used up, the sites you have blocked will be inaccessible for the rest of the day.
Stress Reduction
The UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center offers several free, short mindfulness practices on their website. They also offer classes in series and as daylong retreats.
Meditation Oasis is a website offering lots of resources, including a free weekly podcast of guided practices. Especially recommend are "Simply Being" (8:01), "Letting Go" (15:15), "Effortless Meditation" (12:36), and Relief from Stress and Pressure (22:57). "Breath Awareness Meditation" (9:27) is a good introductory practice to mindful awareness with a focus on breathing. Visit their website or on the iTunes store (search "Meditation Oasis").